L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 29, 2017
The pay gap between women and men in tech jobs in Los Angeles widened 15.5 percent on average for the time period of 2011 to 2015 compared with the previous five years, according to an estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Carlsbad-based ViaSat , the provider of satellite broadband services and technology, said it has opened up a new Asia-Pacific (APAC) headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. ViaSat said the new headquarters will support existing customres in the region, including nbn and Qantas, as well as to allow it to expand its services and support efforts in the region.
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L.A. Business Journal
AUGUST 29, 2017
Pay gap widens between women and men in Los Angeles tech industry, Tastemade expands its live events with Smorgasburg partnership and drone companies to be honored at Emmy awards.
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Calabasas-based network testing products developer Ixia said Monday that it has launched a new, LTE testing product, called IxLoad-Wireless. According to Ixia, the new product is aimed at providing Long Term Evolution (LTE) testing for cellular IoT efforts, the machine-to-machine (M2M) area. In particular, Ixia said its tool can be used to ensure that LTE components can handle real-world traffic and connection density.
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Xconomy
AUGUST 29, 2017
EvoNexus, San Diego’s nonprofit tech incubator established seven years ago, is closing its downtown offices and consolidating its operations in a newly revamped space in University City, a suburban neighborhood about 13 miles to the north. The pro-bono incubator program, which provides tech-oriented startups with free office space and related amenities, has helped re-energize the tech startup community in San Diego.
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Los Angeles-based Mitu , the online content developer focused on media and entertainment from a Latino perspective, has just sold two shows to Facebook, the company said on Tuesday. Mitu said "Mom's Movie Review" and "What's Good in Your Hood" will both debut on Facebook's "Watch" on Wednesday, after becoming "viral hits" on its channels. What's Good In Your Hood focuses on food and people in their community, and Mom's Movie Review includes movie reviews by a Latina mother and her son.
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socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary 's Sound Ventures, which is based in Los Angeles, has made an investment in the Series B funding round for San Francisco-based software development provider Gigster , in a round that also included basketball legend Michael Jordan. Gigster said today that it raised $20M in a Series B funding, which was Redpoint Ventures, and also included Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures, Marc Benioff and Adam D'Angelo, along with Mich
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Is the pizza delivery boy about to be replaced by robots? Domino's Pizza and Ford Motor Co. said this morning that they are launching an effort to use self-driving vehicles to deliver pizzas, starting in Ford's hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan--all part of a study of self-driving vehicles in pizza delivery. According to Domino's and Ford, they will be delivering pizzas to randomly selected Domino's customers in Ann Arbor using self driving vehicles from Ford (with a technician monitoring things f
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Pasadena-based Calimmune , a biotechnology company focused on stem cell therapy, has been acquired by CSL Behring , CSL said on Monday, in a deal worth $91M up front, but worth up to $400M total when you include possible earn out. Calimmune has R&D facilities in both Pasadena, California and Sydney, Australia. Calimmune's lead product is CAL-H, an HSC gene therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease.
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Santa Barbara-based Sonos appears to be gearing up for a big launch of a "smart speaker", and has started sending out invites to journalists to an October 4th launch event in New York City. Sonos, which has not detailed its plans yet for a voice enabled speaker, already accidentally revealed its plans in its privacy policy and in government filings.
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
To our readers following the continuing disaster in Texas due to Hurricane Harvey (now Tropical Storm Harvey), which, according to the National Weather Service, has dropped as much as 50 inches of rain in parts of Texas in the last few days (for comparison, Los Angeles gets an average of 14.93 inches a year.). Donate to the American Red Cross via Text.
socalTECH
AUGUST 29, 2017
Irvine-based Western Digital , which seems to be in an acquisitive mood, has acquired Tegile Systems , a developer of flash-based storage for the enterprise data center market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. The acquisition is the second for Western Digital this week. Tegile Systems was based in Newark, California, and was venture backed by August Capital, Meritech Capital, and SanDisk, in addition to Western Digital itself.
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