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JUNE 12, 2017

A new, electric car sharing program was launched by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday, called the BlueLA Electric Car Sharing Program , in an attempt to bring electric car vehicle sharing to low income communities. The new program, which is being run by Blue Solutions , will initially offer up electric vehicles in the Westlake, Pico Union, Koreatown, Echo Park, and Downtown Los Angeles areas of Los Angeles, and specifically is aimed at expanding access to electric vehicles to low-income

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JUNE 12, 2017

Snap Inc. rolled out its ad manager tool on Monday, which makes it easier for small businesses to buy and manage ad campaigns on Snapchat.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Irvine-based Toshiba America Business Solutions , the U.S. arm of the Japanese technology giant Toshiba which develops copiers and printers, has rolled out the world's first copier which can product erasable, black and white prints. According to Toshiba, its new printer allows organizations to re-use paper, which can automatically erase all printed content on a page.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 12, 2017

Snap rolls out ad manager for small businesses, United Launch Alliance wasn’t allowed to bid for Air Force X-37B launch won by SpaceX, and Imax plans to lay off 100 employees in cost-cutting move.

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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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JUNE 12, 2017

San Diego-based Qualcomm , and its life sciences subsidiary, Qualcomm Life , announced this morning that it has teamed up with LifeScan , a developer of blood glucose meters, to enable wireless data collection for those devices. LifeScan, which is part of the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care Company, will use Qualcomm's 2net products to enable wireless data capture from its OneTouch Verio Flex blood glucose meters.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Dragonfly Therapeutics, a stealthy startup formed by well-known cancer researchers on both coasts and backed by a high-powered group of family offices, has inked its first partnership. Celgene, of Summit, NJ, is paying Dragonfly $33 million up front for the chance to co-develop up to four blood cancer drugs. The deal is a modest bet for Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ), which generates more than $11 billion a year, largely from lymphoma and multiple myeloma drugs, and has aligned itself with a slew of st

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JUNE 12, 2017

By definition, most entrepreneurs are thought leaders. They have the ability to recognize a market need, the skills to design and implement a solution, and the drive to start a business from that solution. It all comes from within themselves. A business leader does the same thing and more through the people around them. Most entrepreneurs are not both.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Los Angeles- and Singapore-based WaveMaker Partners , the venture capital firm managed here in LA by Eric Manlunas and David Siemer, with Paul Santos in Sinagpore, said over the weekend that it is finalizing its new, $50M fund. The new fund has a new focus specifically on investing in companies in Southeast Asia. WaveMaker said the new fund has a specific focus on B2B, early stage startups in Indonesia.

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JUNE 12, 2017

It’s been a tough run for Regulus Therapeutics, and things haven’t gotten any better this morning. Regulus is scrapping two programs, and AstraZeneca has kicked back a third drug to boot, sending Regulus shares down to their lowest levels ever. La Jolla, CA-based Regulus (NASDAQ: RGLS ) said this morning that it will stop development of its most advanced treatment, RG-101, a microRNA treatment for hepatitis C, as well as preclinical drug, RGLS5040, for cholestatic liver disease.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Irvine-based Conexant Systems , which develops semiconductors for the audio and voice market, has been acquired by Synaptics , in a deal worth approximately $346.7M in cash. Synaptics and Conexant said Monday afternoon that Synaptics will pay $300M in cash plus 726,666 shares of Synaptics common stock. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Aliso Viejo-based Vertos Medical , which develops minimally invasive treatments for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), has raised $28M more in a funding round, the company said on Monday morning. The new funding was led by MVM Life Science Partners LLP, a new investor in the firm, and also included prior investors Leerink Revelation Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, ONSET Ventures, and Aweida Venture Partners.

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JUNE 12, 2017

San Diego-based Elevate Credit , a fintech startup aimed at providing credit to non-prime customers, said it has launched a new "Advanced Analytics" center in San Diego. The company said the San Diego team has more than 35 data scientists, including more than 25 member with advanced degrees, and eight with PhDs. Elevate says it has a terabyte-scale Hadoop database it is using to assign risk to consumers, using credit bureau data, web behavioral and performance data, bank account data and other n

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