socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
A new report, released by the Angel Resource Institute in the last week, has spotlighted the Tech Coast Angels and the Pasadena Angels as among the top four angel groups in California, and the Tech Coast Angeles as number two in the nation in terms of the number of deals in 2016. The rankings were released in the Angel Resource Insitute's 2016 ARI HALO Report.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MAY 1, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 -- ACG What's Up in AandD? SpaceX's Elon Musk and Amazon's Jeff Bezos are battling for leadership in Space Tourism. Trillions of new dollars are coming to the Federal defense budget. UAVs (don't call them drones!) are providing more intel than ever. Private aviation has never had it so good as a record number of millionaires take to the private skies.
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socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Los Angeles-based mitu , the Latino-focused online content developer backed by Upfront Ventures, WPP, AwesomenessTV, and Verizon Ventures, said on Monday that has linked up with Hyundai Motor America , to launch a new digital series called "What's Good in your Hood". According to the two, the new branded content series will help Hyundai connect with latino youth and communities in the America, by highlighting the impact of local businesses in Latino communities.
L.A. Business Journal
MAY 1, 2017
SpaceX launches first spy satellite, Awesomeness signs Netflix movie deal, and Snapchat rolls out new viewability score.
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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.
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Santa Monica-based Hulu and NBCUniversal announced this morning that they are in a new, distribution agreement, which will add NBC and Telemundo Owned Television Stations to Hulu's new live TV service, when it launches later this spring. Financial details of the deal were not announced. According to the two, the deal includes access to NBC, Telemundo, USA, Syfy, Bravo, E!
Xconomy
MAY 1, 2017
Cyber incidents are considered the No. 1 emerging risk for enterprises long-term. No surprise, then, that cybersecurity insurance policy premiums are approaching $2.75 billion a year. Some experts believe this figure will grow to roughly $20 billion by 2025. For scores of insurance companies cashing in on the booming corporate cybersecurity insurance market, it’s a great opportunity.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2017
Every boss and decision maker is convinced that he or she is able to look objectively at any problem, and make an unbiased decision. Some typically worry about biases in their team, but rarely think of themselves as a source of bias. In reality, everyone has biases, and needs to make sure they are researching objective data, and listening to alternatives, before making a decision.
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Los Angeles-based online movie site Fandango is hosting former U.S. Vice President Al Gore at a screening of the film, An Inconvenient Sequel , at LA's Greek Theater this week, the company announced this morning. Fandango said Gore will be joined by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a screening and Q&A about the film, which tackles the changes that have taken place since Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Anaheim-based Zyxel has launched a new firewall for the small- and medium-sized business market this morning, aimed at connecting headquarters and multiple branch offices. According to Zyxel, its new USG2200-VPN VPN Firewall provides VPN connections, combined with anti-spam, content filtering, hotspot management, and device high availability features.
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Kyriba , which develops cloud-based treasury management software, and was founded in San Diego, said over the weekend that it is in an expansion in Southern Europe, particularly in Italy and Spain. The company said it is developing a network of reseller partners in the area, and recently has been seeing growth in Italy and Spain. The company said its growth rates between 2015 and 2016 in the countries are 166 percent for Italy and 67 percent for Spain.
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Los Angeles-based Tinder has shut down access to a trove of facial images which had been scraped from the service using its API, after the data was uploaded to online data site Kaggle over the weekend. A data scientist apparently had scraped 40,000 faces from the dating service for use in developing artificial intelligence software. It appears that the data has now been removed from Kaggle.
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2017
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has delivered another payload into space, this time, a secretive mission for the U.S. military. SpaceX launched the NROL-76 this morning a little after 7:00 a.m. EDT, delivering the NROL-76 to orbit from Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX also successfully landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, this time on land, also in Florida at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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