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JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based OpenX said on Tuesday that it has named a new CFO. According to OpenX, Rob Leff, formerly the CFO of Fandango, will join the company to lead its global finance team. Leff has been at Fandango for more than a decade, according to OpenX, overseeing all aspects of financial strategy including mergers & acquisitions, predictive analytics, data science and more at Fandango.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

LunaDNA, a startup that is offering individuals company stock in exchange for personal genomic and health information in a bid to build a database that could help advance scientific research, is merging its research platform with the Genetic Alliance’s Platform for Engaging Everyone Responsibly (PEER). The Genetic Alliance is a longstanding nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from industry and technology leaders about 2018 trends. A few trends come to mind that continue to shape and define the startup ecosystem in Detroit: —Marketplaces continue to evolve and attract funding (initial and follow-on), and gain traction that has to be recognized and respected.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Lifeyo , a developer of website development software aimed at small and medium-sized merchants, has been acquired by San Francisco-based SpotOn , SpotOn announced this morning. Financial details of the buy were not announced. According to SpotOn, the effort will help it offer up a platform and suite of tools for payment processing, customer engagement and more for small and medium-sized businesses.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based REX , which is developing technology buying and selling homes, said on Monday that it has raised $45M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from Sun Microsystems' founder Scott McNealy, Best Buy founder Dick Schulze, Crate and Barrel founder Gordon Segal, Amit Singhal, former SVP search at Google, Diana Nelson, chair of Carlson, Jack Greenberg, former CEO of McDonalds and Muneer Satter, chairman of Satter Investment Management.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Do you just have to have that Starbucks coffee, but you just don't want to go down the street to pick it up? Starbucks announced on Tuesday that it will be expanding delivery of its coffee in Los Angeles--along with five other cities--through a deal with Uber Eats. According to Starbucks, the expansion of its Starbucks Delivery service follows a test in Miami of the service; the company hopes to eventually bring the delivery service to around one-quarter of its U.S., company-owned stores.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Hulu and a brand new startup, Humu , are engaging in the courts, after Hulu threatened to sue Humu over trademark infringement. In a pre-emptive move, Silicon Valley-based Humu, a startup developing "human talent development" software, has filed a complaint in the United States District Court, Northern District of California seeking declaratory judgement against Hulu to stave off a possible trademark battle.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Lifeyo , a developer of website development software aimed at small and medium-sized merchants, has been acquired by San Francisco-based SpotOn , SpotOn announced this morning. Financial details of the buy were not announced. According to SpotOn, the effort will help it offer up a platform and suite of tools for payment processing, customer engagement and more for small and medium-sized businesses.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Costa Mesa-based Veritone , which develops software for analyzing advertising campaigns, reported a win with radio broadcaster Beasley Media Group. Financial details of the expanded licensing agreement with the radio station company were not announced. According to Veritone, Beasley Media Group is using its aiWARE artificial intelligence software for providing advertisers and brands with insights and analytics into their advertising campaigns, and has doubled the number of stations covered to a

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JANUARY 22, 2019

San Diego-based antenna developer Airgain has named a trio of new executives, saying last week that it has named a new President, Senior Vice President of Engineering, and Vice President of Global Human Resources. According to the company, it has named Jacob Suen as the appointed President, Kevin Thill as the Senior Vice President of Engineering, and Kathy Pearson as the Vice President of Global Human Resources and Administration.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

A Delta IV Heavy rocket--the largest rocket ever to launch on the West Coast of the United States--finally lifted off successfully on Saturday, carrying a top-secret payload into orbit for the National Reconaissance Office (NRO). The launch, by the United Launch Alliance , had been delayed multiple times, and had originally been scheduled for December 7th.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In an unprecedented move, Otter Media , the new owner of Machinima , has set the entire Machinima YouTube channel to "private", effectively wiping the entire history of content created for the content network from the Internet. The sudden move over the weekend caught many YouTubers unaware, taking years of content off Youtube. The removal of Machinima's content from YouTube follows a major layoff and restructuring of Otter Media in December by AT&T.

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