socalTECH
JUNE 11, 2018
Watch out, Los Angeles--the first 1,000 "flamethrowers" being sold by Elon Musk's company, The Boring Company , were distributed on Saturday. The flamethrowers--conceived of by Musk partially as a joke in January --are the second off-the-cuff product sold by The Boring Company, which is developing tunnel boring technology for digging underground transportation tunnels across cities.
L.A. Business Journal
JUNE 11, 2018
Fans looking to enter Banc of California Stadium may soon present for a scan their fingerprint or retina instead of a physical or digital ticket.
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socalTECH
JUNE 11, 2018
Amazon , through its Amazon Studios arm, is hoping to revive its content production efforts in Los Angeles, with a new head of its operations here, the company told media last week from various entertainment publications. Amazon recently installed Jennifer Salke as head of Amazon Studios, replacing disgraced predecessor Roy Price, who was dumped by the company after a sexual harassment scandal in October.
L.A. Business Journal
JUNE 11, 2018
Los Angeles Football Club Testing Biometric Ticketing; Snap Inc. Allows App Users to Delete Messages; Boring Co.
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socalTECH
JUNE 11, 2018
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is reportedly planning a big expansion of its operations in Florida, at the Kennedy Space Center, as the company continues to ramp up its launch operations there, according to local Florida publications. According to Florida Today, SpaceX is planning a new 133,000 square foot hangar, and a new launch control center, among other expansion at its current location at Kennedy Space Center.
Xconomy
JUNE 11, 2018
Intel sealed its commitment to become a player in the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry when it bought computer vision company Mobileye for more than $15 billion in 2017. The venerable Santa Clara, CA-based chipmaker is betting that its data analytics and connectivity chops—as well as its semiconductors—combined with Mobileye’s computer vision and mapping functions , will attract a significant share of business from automakers that want to equip their vehicles for tech-assisted
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Xconomy
JUNE 11, 2018
Amazon is a fundamentally disrupting how and where we shop, but in-store retail still has life in it. The Seattle e-commerce giant is “a hefty competitor, but that doesn’t mean brands and retailers don’t have the ability to fight back,” says Kay Koplovitz, co-founder and managing partner of Springboard Growth Capital in New York. In fact, she points out that, as of last year, online retail sales made up only 13 percent of total sales , according to data from the U.S.
socalTECH
JUNE 11, 2018
Rancho Palos Verdes-based Kumbaya , a startup developing devices that combine solar power, batteries, lighting, TV and radio, and a computer designed for deployment in third world countries, says it has joined the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA). GOGLA is a not-for-profit industry association that serves as the voice of the off-grid solar energy industry, and has over 130 companies and organizations as members.
Xconomy
JUNE 11, 2018
Rockwell Automation is investing $1 billion in PTC, as the two companies team up to advance their vision of software-driven factories and industrial operations. The companies said Monday they expect their “strategic partnership” to boost both businesses by strengthening their pitch to customers around the world who are interested in enhancing their physical operations with digital technologies.
socalTECH
JUNE 11, 2018
The City of Santa Barbara has taken a hard line on the first, on-demand scooter rental service to hit the city-- Lime --and has impounded every single scooter placed in the city on Friday by Lime. Lime had placed 100 scooters on State Street on Friday as part of its launch of its service, which it did without permission of the city. Lime, along with Santa Monica's Bird --have been launching their on-demand electric scooter rentals nationwide, using the same approach used by Uber and Lyft in thei
Xconomy
JUNE 11, 2018
Helen Torley, who was highlighted in 2016 as the only female CEO of a public life sciences company in San Diego , was recognized last week for her operational excellence at Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). Torley, who joined San Diego-based Halozyme as CEO in 2014, was among five local business leaders to win the 2018 San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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