Wed.Oct 02, 2019

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SpaceX Receives Funding from NASA to Aid Moon, Mars Missions

L.A. Business Journal

SpaceX is one of 14 companies awarded grants from NASA to boost the agency's mission to return to the Moon and to eventually land on Mars.

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MemComputing Selected By Chevron Technology Ventures

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San Diego-based MemComputing , a startup developing high performance computing (HPC) technology, has been selected by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), for CTV's Catalyst Program, which supports early stage companies focused on the oil and gas industry. MemComputing did not say if the selection for participation included an investment from CTV. According to MemComputing, its technology has shown the ability to reduce compute times from hours to seconds for challenging computational problems.

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How To Manage Online Reviews and Business Reputation

Startup Professionals Musings

Since most small business owners are justifiably proud of the service they deliver, they don’t even anticipate a negative online review or threat to their reputation, until it happens. Unfortunately, trying to recover after the fact is tough. The best way to protect your reputation online is to solicit good reviews proactively, so an occasional negative one will be discounted as an exception.

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Virgin Galactic Lands Deal With Italian Air Force

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Virgin Galactic , the space launch company backed by Sir Richard Branson, has inked a contract with the Italian Air Force , to conduct science experiements in microgravity in Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane. Financial details of the contract were not disclosed. According to Virgin Galactic, it will fly a research flight on the company's SpaceShipTwo system, where three Italian specialists will fly a rack of research payloads to space, with a rack full of experiments from the Italian Nati

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Viscient Bio Proposes Organovo Merger to Tackle NASH and Go Beyond

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Organovo, a company developing technology to 3D print human tissue, announced two months ago that its dwindling cash is leading it to explore options that include merging with another firm. The San Diego biotech now has an offer from a familiar face close to home. Viscient Biosciences, a seven-person biotech startup also based in San Diego, announced Wednesday that it has submitted a merger proposal to the Organovo (NASDAQ: ONVO ) board of directors.

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SpaceX Wins $3M For Moon, Mars Exploration Research

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX has received a $3M contract from NASA, to go towards some of its work aimed at space exploration on the Moon and Mars, NASA said this week. The award was one of a number of awards given to 14 companies, announced by NASA for its Tipping Point program. NASA said that SpaceX will collaborate with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to develop and test coupler prototypes  or nozzles  for refueling spacecraft such as the companys Starship vehicle.

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Semtech Rolls Out Reference Design For Indoor LoRa Gateways

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Camarillo-based analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer Semtech has rolled out a new reference design for its line of LoRa low power wireless products, with a design for indoor wireless gateways for its LoRa protocol. According to Semtech, the reference design will accelerate time-to-market for indoor gateway applications, targeted at smart home and building and factory automation applications.

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Apex Innovation Sciences Forms From Three Way Merger

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A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning. Financial details of the merger were not announced.

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Inseego Snags New CMO From Amazon Web Services

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San Diego-based 5G wireless equipment developer Inseego announced today that it has named Wendy Caceres as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Caceres was most recently Worldwide Head of Enterprise Marketing for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and also had served as VP of Marketing at Ayla Networks, in addition to serving at such companies as Echelon, Global IP Solutions, Knight Ridder, Personify, Tessera Enterprises and NEC.

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