L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 8, 2017

Some local restaurants are trying a new alternative to delivery to bring in customers with an app that launched in Los Angeles County Tuesday.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based Triple , a startup developing augmented reality applications, said today that it has launched a new app to let users shop for furniture--and see how that furniture looks like in their home or office. The venture backed company's app-- currently only available for iOS --let users search for different furniture from such stores as Design Within Reach, Article, CB2, Crate & Barrel, West Elm and Restoration Hardware, and "drag and drop" that furniture into real life augmented r

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Seed Funding Los Angeles Design Startup 150

L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 8, 2017

Torrance-based electric car maker Faraday Future has inked a deal on a 1 million-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Central Valley, the company announced Monday.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based electric car startup Faraday Future has lost another executive, the company's Vice President of Human Resources, according to a report on Tuesday afternoon. Alan Cherry apparently announced his departure at an "all hands" meeting at Faraday earlier today. Cherry was previously at Tesla Motors. Faraday Future has been fighting to stay alive, even as it faces financial pressure after primary backer LeEco ran into its own financial issues; the company recently announced plans for

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 8, 2017

Walt Disney to pull content from Netflix and launch streaming service, TYT Network receives $20 million from investors including Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo and Hopscotch signs 40 collegiate programs for sports app.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Camarillo-based Oasis Technology , the developer of an intrusion prevention device called TITAN , says it has started rolling out its product after a number of regional trials. Oasis, led by President and CEO George Baldonado, says it has developed a device which sits in front of a company's firewalls, and uses artificial intelligence to dynamically adjust cyber-security rules in real-time to respond to possible attacks.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Costa Mesa-based J.D. Power , the consumer analytics company best known for collecting data on consumer satisfaction in the automotive industry, said it has named Bernardo Rodriguez as its new Chief Digital Officer. J.D. Power said the new position will focus on its "digital transformation", and specifically on new product development, branding, marketing and mergers and acquisitions.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2017

The nominees for our first ever Xconomy Awards were an impressive bunch, and represent a wide range of the technologies, approaches, and yes, personalities, that are all driving Boston biotech today. There’s a lot of talent in this town, so narrowing the list of more than 250 nominations down to a handful of finalists in each category took a lot discussion and debate amongst our editors and our esteemed panel of judges.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

San Diego- and Baltimore-based private equity investor JMI Equity announced this morning that it has made two promotions. The company said it has named Larry Contrella as Principal at the company, and named Paul Chang as Vice President. Contrella is based in Baltimore, and has been at the firm since 2010. Chang is in San Diego, and has been at JMI Equity since 2013.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Irvine-based networking equipment maker Solarflare said today that it has demonstrated a new Ethernet fabric protocol, NVMe over fabric, along with Samsung Semiconductor and Supermicro. According to Solarflare, its support of NVme over TCP on its XtremeScale network interface cards (NICs) will be commercially available on September 30th. The new protocol is aimed at data center bridging and other low latency applications, allowing Ethernet to be used for fabric applications, rather than special

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based TYT Network , the online news empire run by Cenk Uygur, said this morning that it has raised $20M in a round of funding, to expand the company's management, creative talent, subscription offerings, marketing, and content and community. TYT--which focuses on politics, pop culture, and lifestyle content, with a Millenial-bent--said the funding came from 3L Capital, along with Greycroft, e.ventures and WndrCo.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The impact of the hack over at HBO is getting worse, as hackers--demanding a multimillion dollar ransom-- has released the email addresses and phone numbers of the stars of Game Of Thrones, plus other personal data--saying they have much more data from HBO's corporate network. According to reports, the hackers have 1.5TB of data from HBO which they are holding hostage.

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Email Demand Report Networking 113

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Costa Mesa-based CerraCap Ventures , a new, early stage investment firm which looks to invest in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and digital health investments, said today that it has scored backing from NBA star Kevin Durant. According to CerraCap Ventures, Durant has made an investment in the firm, as part of a move to invest in startups. Size of that investment were not announced.

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Artificial Inteligence Invest Startup Venture Capital 113

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Vance Street Capital said this morning that its existing portfolio firm, A&E Medical Corporation , has acquired RTI Surgical's Cardiothoracic Closure business. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is the second acquisition for A&E Medical. Vance Street Capital acquired A&E Medical in February of 2016.

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