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JUNE 3, 2020

Santa Ana-based Iteris , which develops products used in transportation management, reports that it has been awarded $1M in a contract in the City of Round Rock, Texas. According to Iteris, the company's products will be used for a smart mobility initiative. Round Rock is the city where Dell Computer is headquartered. Iteris said that the contract covers "mobility intelligence solutions and video detection technology updates" throughout the city.

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JUNE 3, 2020

In my experience as a business mentor, one of the biggest challenges I see is a failure to focus. Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have new ideas on a regular basis, and find it hard deciding which to pursue, or try to tackle several at the same time. The result is that nothing ever really gets done well, or you burn out trying to address too many opportunities, all at the same time.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is aiming at another launch of a number of Starlink satellites, part of a constellations of thousands that the spaceflight company is hoping to send into low earth orbit. According to the company, it hopes for a launch on Wednesday, June 3rd at 9:25 p.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap said it will no longer promote posts by Donald Trump on Wednesday, making the President's content harder to find, and no longer featuring it in Discover. According to Snap, "We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover. Racial violence and injustice have no place in our society and we stand together with all who seek peace, love, equality, and justice in America.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Los Angeles-based TeleSign said on Wednesday that it is in a new partnership with Microsoft's Skype , to screen robocalls. According to TeleSign, Skype will implement Telesign's digital identity solution, called Score, to take action against calls that are likely of a fraudulent origin. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. TeleSign said that its Score software behaves as an "inbound spam filter", as well as other kinds of communications fraud.

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JUNE 3, 2020

The Riveter , which had specifically focused on providing a coworking environment for women, has shut down all of its physical spaces, including its location in the Los Angeles area. According to a post from the company, it made the "tremendously difficult decision" to close its coworking operations as a result of the ongoing pandemic. The Riveter's offices in LA were in Marina Del Rey; the company also had locations in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, and three locations in Seattl

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JUNE 3, 2020

Foothill Ranch-based TAE Life Sciences , which is developing boron-based radiation therapy drugs for the treatment of cancer, has raised $30M in what it says is an initial, Series B funding round. The company said the funding comes from a consortium of investors, including ARTIS Ventures. The company said the new funding will allow it to further accelerate development of its products.

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