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JULY 11, 2017

Stopping by your local, Los Angeles 7-11 convenience store for a free Slurpee today? While you are there, you might notice that you can now buy Soylent , the meal replacement product created by Los Angeles-based Rosa Foods. According to Soylent, it started offering up its "nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meals" at 18 of 7-Eleven's stores in the Greater Los Angeles area on Monday, including a number of locations across Los Angeles, plus Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice, and elsewhere.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 11, 2017

Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that e-sports company aXiomatic was one of 11 companies chosen to participate in the 2017 Disney Accelerator program.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City said this morning that it has officially launched a new "bubble shooter" game, Snoopy Pop , which features characters from the Peanuts and Snoopy. Jam City--which had announced a deal with Peanuts Worldwide earlier this year around the game--said the game allows anyone with a mobile device to "help rescue Woodstock and his flock of birds who have been trapped in bubbles.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 11, 2017

Snap Inc., the Venice developer of the Snapchat app, took a pummeling on the stock market on Tuesday, falling nearly 9 percent to close at $15.47 a share.

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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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JULY 11, 2017

Santa Monica-based customer relationship management (CRM) software developer Nimble has connected up its software to Microsoft Office 365, the company said on Tuesday. Nimble said the link will match up and provide social profiles, from within Microsoft Office 365, Outlook desktop and iOS. Nimble's CEO is Jon Ferrara, who was an early pioneer in the CRM space, having previously founded GoldMine.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- Harnessing Marketing Analytics for Business Impact - Matt Kautz from Machinima. Los Angeles Marketing Analytics Group. We are excited to have Matt Kautz, VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Research for Machinima presenting on Harnessing Marketing Analytics for Business Impact: The New Market Research Landscape in Media and Entertainment.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Friday, July 14, 2017 -- Esri User Conference. One of the biggest GIS event globally, the UC attracts 16,000+ GIS users, managers and developers and includes 300+ exhibitors spanning across almost every industry from partners in enterprise (Cisco, Microsoft, SAP) to startups, NGOs and more.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2017

Pasadena-based UberMedia , a provider of mobile location data to businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Cintric , a provider of location and analytics software for mobile app publishers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Cintric develops a mobile SDK which is used to measure locaiton information for mobile app users.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Thursday, July 13, 2017 -- Esri User Conference. One of the biggest GIS event globally, the UC attracts 16,000+ GIS users, managers and developers and includes 300+ exhibitors spanning across almost every industry from partners in enterprise (Cisco, Microsoft, SAP) to startups, NGOs and more.

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Conference Startup Develop Development 100

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2017

Elon Musk , the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has acquired the domain name X.com , from PayPal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Elon Musk had started X.com in January of 1999, before it merged with Confinity and became PayPal. Apparently, Elon Musk had acquired X.com from its former owners for stock in X.com (now PayPal), well before PayPal's IPO.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 -- Esri User Conference. One of the biggest GIS event globally, the UC attracts 16,000+ GIS users, managers and developers and includes 300+ exhibitors spanning across almost every industry from partners in enterprise (Cisco, Microsoft, SAP) to startups, NGOs and more.

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Conference Startup Develop Development 100

L.A. Business Journal

JULY 11, 2017

Snap Inc. shares tumble after underwriter downgrades stock, UberMedia acquires Cintric for an undisclosed amount, and Disney starts new accelerator class.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- Esri User Conference. One of the biggest GIS event globally, the UC attracts 16,000+ GIS users, managers and developers and includes 300+ exhibitors spanning across almost every industry from partners in enterprise (Cisco, Microsoft, SAP) to startups, NGOs and more.

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Conference Startup Develop Development 100

Xconomy

JULY 11, 2017

Austin —For businesses that ship anything from mayonnaise to car parts, a change in temperature or an unexpected storm can mean bigger problems than just rotten eggs or stalled repairs. In this age of “just in time manufacturing,” entire factories might need to halt production if the right parts aren’t delivered, potentially costing thousands of dollars in delays.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- HOW TO HIRE A USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER. General Assembly.

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Design 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 11, 2017

Monday, July 17, 2017 -- GENBAND Perspectives. GENBAND user conference.

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JULY 11, 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -- LA Embedded Security First Meetup.

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