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APRIL 11, 2018

The University of Southern California's Marshall Greif Incubator said on Wednesday that it is accepting application for its next class of startups, which must have at least one founder who is a student, alum, faculty or staff member of USC. According to the startup incubator, it has had more than 70 companies participate in its program over the last three years, with seven joining funded accelerators, another seven running successful crowdfunding campaigns, and another 30 which raised money, and

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APRIL 11, 2018

Hulu and Spotify announce bundle subscription; Facebook made $40 billion in ad revenue in 2017; Snap Inc. files FCC documents for next-generation sunglasses.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Seed stage investments in Los Angeles area startups was up, year-to-year, according to the Q1 2018 LA Seed Deal Report from investor Amplify LA. According to the report from Amplify, 23 LA startups raised a total of $52.9M in seed funding in Q1, which was up 2.5 percent from Q1 of 2017. That said, the quarter-to-quarter results were down 21 percent from what had been an extremely robust Q4.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. The popular tech destination is infamous for that extreme cost of living, which has worsened in recent years. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017.

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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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APRIL 11, 2018

Carlsbad-based SleepScore Labs , a developer of a system for sleep improvement for consumers, announced that it has acquired Sleep.ai , a developer of a wearable that helps consumers figure out if they snore or grind their teeth when sleeping. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Sleep.ai was based in the Netherlands, and was foundedin 2014.

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2018

When oncologist Renato Martins finished his medical training, advanced lung cancer was almost certainly a quick death sentence. “I knew, by name, every patient who had survived two years,” he says. Thanks in large part to the arrival of cancer immunotherapy, things are much different today. While lung cancer remains by far the leading cause of cancer death, immunotherapy now offers patients with advanced disease—Stage 4 cancer that has spread to other parts of the body—at least the c

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2018

[ Corrected, 4/1/18, 4:48 p.m. ET. See below. ] Billie, a direct-to-consumer seller of monthly shaving and body care products subscriptions, has raised $6 million in new funding. The New York-based startup, which launched in November, previously raised $2.5 million. This latest round of funding was led by Silverton Partners in Austin and included existing investors Female Founders Fund and Lakehouse Ventures.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said on Tuesday that it has selected Rhode Island for the company's new next-generation biomanufacturing plant. According to Amgen, the new plant will be in its existing West Greenwich, R.I., and will product products for the U.S. and global markets. Amgen already has a 75-acre campus in Rhode Island, Amgen Rhode Island, in that location, which will host the new plant.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 11, 2018

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APRIL 11, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap apparently is planning a new line of its Spectacles, based on recent documents filed with the FCC--and uncovered by Variety. According to the filings, Snap recently published an application with the FCC for a new "wearable video camera" with support for the 802.11ac WiFi standard. Snap's original spectacles, which are still available, let users take pictures from the special sunglasses and auto-post them to Snapchat.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Santa Monica-based car ownership service Fair , the new auto startup led by longtime auto veteran Scott Painter, has inked a strategic alliance with auto financing giant Ally Financial. According to the two, Fair will use Ally's SmartAuction when vehicles are returned to Fair, as a remarketing solution for those vehicles. Fair allows consumers to drive a car by paying month-to-month, without the traditional limitations of a lease.

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