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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Apple has announced a major expansion that will see it open a new campus in North Austin and open new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Los Angeles as it bids to increase its workforce in the U.S. The firm said it intends also to significantly expand its presence in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years. The Austin campus alone will cost the company $1 billion, but Apple said that the 133-acre space will generate an initial 5,000 jobs across a broad range of roles

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Apple Inc. plans to employ 1,000 people in a new office in Culver City, the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant announced today.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Lyft is turning its app into a one-stop multimodal transportation app in a few U.S. cities, the latest illustration of its transformation from ridesharing startup to a company that wants to own, or at least be a part of, every way people move from Point A to Point B, whether it’s cars, bikes, scooters or even public transit. This new version of Lyft’s app, which allows users to request a shared car, find a scooter or bike, as well as see nearby public transit options, is only availab

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , the spaceflight and space tourism company founded by Sir Richard Branson, has returned to space , after its fourth test flight on Thursday. According to Virgin Galactic, the SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity landed successfully after reaching 51.4 miles above the earth, reaching speeds of three times the speed of sound above Mojave.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field against products from other companies that already have revenues flowing. As a rule, creating a product that does not fit into an existing space, cannot be defined against one or more competitors, or which needs a long description to understand, will require considerably more market research, more marketing capital, and entail much more risk than one that

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday. Vyng said it raised $4M in its Series A funding, which was led by Omidyar Network India, and also included March Capital Partners, Alpha Edison, and the Entrepreneur Fund.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

San Diego-based artificial intelligence software developer Brain Corp says it has linked up with processor developer NVIDIA , to power its latest product, an earlier announced commercial vacuum cleaner from SoftBank Robotics. According to Brain, it selected NVIDIA's Jetson to run its software for its self-driving robot technology, which SoftBank Robotics is rolling out to commercial customers in Japan next year.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs. Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Carlsbad-based Medsphere Systems Corporation , a provider of healthcare information technology solutions and services, annoucned this morning that it has raised $32M in a funding round. The funding came from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and East West Bank. Medsphere, which is led by president and CEO Irv Lichtenwald, offers up a subscription-based electronic health record, charting, and other software, in addition to providing healthcare IT consulting, service desk, and other services.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 -- 2018 ACG 101 Holiday Reception and Spark of Love Toy Drive. ACG 101 Corridor Chapter.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Volvo Trucks North America , the truck manufacturing arm of Volvo, says it plans on a major rollout of electric cars in the Los Angeles area, starting next year. According to Volvo, it will roll out 23, heavy-duty battery-electric trucks in 2019 and 2020, in Ontario, Chino, Fontana and Placentia, as part of a grant from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Postmates bringing delivery robots to LA; Riot Games leads Hypixel investment; Vyng Series A totals $4 million

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

In what has already been a very busy week for Southern California's commercial space industry, it looks like the next local company to put a payload into space is likely to be Huntington Beach-based Rocket Lab , which is targeting a launch of ten satellites for NASA on Sunday, December 16th. Rocket Lab says it is targeting targeting no earlier than 04:00 UTC on Sunday for the NASA ELaNa-19 launch, which will put 10, "CubeSat" missions into space, developed by universities from around the U.S.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Austin —Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its biggest growth planned for Austin, TX. The computer and smartphone manufacturer plans to hire 5,000 new employees in Austin and to spend $1 billion building a new campus on the north end of Austin. It will be near Apple’s existing facilities where the company currently employs 6,200 workers, which is the second largest number of employees outside of the

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Akero Therapeutics , a biotechnology startup backed by San Diego's Versant Ventures, which developing treatments for non-alcohol steatohepatitis (NASH) and other serious metabolic diseases, has raised $70M in a Series B funding round. According to Akero Therapeutics, the funding was led by Janus Henderson Investors, and also included Redmile Group, Boxer Capital of Tavistock Group, Cormorant Asset Management, BVF Partners, Rock Springs Capital, and LifeSci Venture Partners, plus Apple Tree Partn

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Big screen movie theater operator IMAX is shutting down all of its virtual reality theater locations, including its flagship location in Los Angeles, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday--not a good sign for companies hoping to make location-based virtual reality a business. According to IMAX, it has decided to close all of its remaining VR locations, and write of certain VR content investments, taking a one-time impairment charge of $6.9 million in its fourth quarter of 2018.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Just when you thought you couldn't trip over yet another scooter on your way out of the office, another, on-demand scooter rental service-- Razor Share , has launched in Los Angeles. The new, smartphone-driven electric scooter rental service is launching in Los Feliz, Sherman Oaks, and West Los Angeles, joining a very long list of scooter rental firms--including Bird, Lime, Lyft, and Uber--who are attempting to gain an upper hand on "last-mile" transportation in the region.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Carpinteria-based software developer Procore has raised $75M more in a funding round, bringing its valuation to a heady $3 billion, in a round led by Tiger Global Management, the firm said Thursday. According to Procore, the funding will go towards product development, partner platform expansion, plus hiring. The company--which has rumored to be prepping for an IPO--has raised somewhere north of $250M now in total funding.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , which is designing spacecraft designed to carry passengers to space for space tourism, said this morning that it will be running the fourth powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle today, Thursday. The company said this test will burn the rocket motor attached to the vehicle longer than it has in flight before, but not to its full duration.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Cupertino-based Apple said this morning that it plans to open up new sites in San Diego and Culver City, one of several cities that the computer and device maker hopes to grow its employee base over the next three years. According to Apple, it's hoping to grow by a combined 1,000 employees split between Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City, in addition to a separate, big expansion and new campus in Austin.

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