socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2018

“Brad” was a solid manager with stagnated results. He was great at constructive feedback and holding his team accountable, but recognition did not come naturally to him. “Why should I say thank you to someone for just doing their job?” He was frustrated […].

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jia Yueting, founder and financier of troubled electric car manufacturer Faraday Future, defied orders from a Beijing securities regulator to return to China to deal with debt problems related to his internet company, LeEco.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2018

EVM World is coming up in May of 2018. This is one of two conferences held during the year focused on Integrated Program Performance Management. Here are the presentations from last years November Conference. What are the Five Immutable Principles of Project Success? What is the definition of Done? The Integrated Master Plan tells us this in units of Effectiveness and Performance.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 2, 2018

Spotify hit with $1.6 billion lawsuit from L.A. music publisher; Faraday Future founder defies Beijing order to return home; and SpaceX launching top-secret Zuma satellite for U.S. government this week.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2018

Santa Monica-based toy and consumer products maker JAKKS Pacific quietly said late last week that its CFO, Joel M. Bennett, has stepped down from his position. According to the company, it has launched an external search to identify a new CFO. The reason for the departure was not given. Bennett had been at Jakks Pacific for 22 years. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2018

Heidi A. Voorhees, CAE. EDUCATION Bachelor of arts, majoring in commercial recreation/business, Central Michigan University; master of business administration, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. MY FIRST INDUSTRY JOB Straight out of college — convention assistant, SmithBucklin. MY PREVIOUS THREE JOBS Vice president of strategic initiatives, Institute of Food Technologists; senior vice president of housing, Experient; and two short stints at tech startups (BOB.tv and Eved).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud. The first generation of cloud storage products—as represented by Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—made the best of disk technology as it existed a decade ago.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2018

The founder and main backer of troubled electric car maker Faraday Future , Jia Yueting--who is also CEO of China's LeEco--says he will not return to China, despite an order from China's Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to answer questions over LeEco's finances in that country. According to Yueting, he is focused on fundraising for Faraday Future in the United States, saying the fundraising effort is "making significant progress".

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Next week, a big slice of the biomedical industry is gathering in San Francisco for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and other life sciences events that have emerged like sprouts around the base of an old redwood tree. One year ago, the pharmaceutical folks—by far the largest delegation to this annual mosh pit of deal-making and fund-wooing—held their breath when President-elect Donald Trump said that they were “getting away with murder” and promised his admin

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2018

After its awe-inspiring launch of a rocket over Southern California right before the holidays--which spurred countless number of 911 calls and UFO reports across California and Arizona--Hawthorne-based SpaceX is launching a truly unidentified flying object into space on Thursday, from Florida. According to the Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX is planning to launch its mysterious "Zuma" payload into space for the U.S. government on January 4th, with a launch window that opens at 8 p.m.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages. Aside from these revelations about “fake news,” the year brought reports on major data breaches at Equifax and other companies, on the influence of new technologies in the future job market, and on privacy concerns about Web-connected home devic

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Social Media News Web Report 58

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2018

Los Angeles-based online invitations service Evite is backing an effort to convince families to get everyone to put down their smartphones and tablets at dinner time, through an effort called the #DeviceFreeDinner pledge. According to Evite, it is working with nonprofit Common Sense Media on the effort, which is an attempt to get families to put down their devices at dinner, which Common Sense Media helps kids with better vocabularies, fewer behavior problems, and less substance abuse.

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