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AUGUST 9, 2016

A set of recent reports say that Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to spend more than $300M to deliver its Red Dragon spacecraft to Mars. NASA will be contributing another, $32M in staff hours and technical hours to support SpaceX in its efforts, according to those reports. The NASA efforts apparently will tap into the staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, who will apparently assist SpaceX in plotting its trajectory to Mars.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 9, 2016

Walt Disney to acquire stake in MLB streaming platform for $1 billion, SpaceX Ships rocket to Texas for preliminary testing, West Hollywood’s Opinit acquired by Canadian app developer, and more.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

San Diego-based EDF Renewable Energy , the big renewable energy developer, says it has placed a big wind turbine order with Vestas , for 160 megawatts of turbines for future wind projects in the United States. Financial details of that order were not announced. EDF Renewable Energy said that since 2013, it has installed more than 2 GW of wind turbines from Vestas throughout the U.S.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 9, 2016

Walt Disney Co. will acquire a 33 percent stake in Major League Baseball’s video streaming company, BamTech, for $1 billion.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2016

Camarillo-based Semtech has completed a deal to sell of a bundle of IP assets to Rambus , in a sale that was worth $32M, Rambus said Monday afternoon. The deal, announced in June, included's Semtech's Snowbush IP business, which primarily included SerDes (serial/deserialization) cores used in ASICs, Systems-on-a-chip (SoC), and other platforms. Rambus said that the assets become part of its Memory and Interfaces Division.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2016

Monday, August 15, 2016 -- Make it on Mobile: Using Adobe Mobile Apps to Create Your Initial Design. General Assembly. See https://generalassemb.ly/education/make-it-on-mobile-using-adobe-mobile-apps-to-create-your-initial-design/los-angeles/27328.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2016

Saturday, August 13, 2016 -- Interactive Architecture: Adaptive World Release Party and Book Signing. Architect Michael Fox and guests talk smart highways and adaptive buildings. Fox will sign his new book Interactive Architecture. Open to the public. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interactive-architecture-adaptive-world-release-party-book-signing-tickets-26597580078.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Los Angeles-based myDevices , which develops a software platform aimed at developers of connected devices, said it has integrated its software with the popular Arduino open source software and hardware project. According to myDevices, it has connected its Cayenne cloud service to Arduino, letting device builders easy create web dashboards or smartphone apps based on data from Arduino devices. myDevices' platform pulls data from sensors on connected devices into a visual dashboard.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2016

Saturday, August 13, 2016 -- SOLA/HACK! Generaly Assembl. In this mini-hackathon event, participants will use design thinking, UX design methods and web development skills in an entrepreneurial spirit to address social, economic, and environmental challenges specific to South L.A. Participants will learn about these challenges with two kick-off talks, and then form teams to brainstorm and rapidly prototype solutions.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2016

Los Angeles-based digital media company Woven Digital says it has inked a partnership with Coors Light , to launch a new series on its UPROXX site, called "HUMAN LIMITS". Woven Digital said the new series will "exploration of our limitations as human beings and the stories of those individuals who have defied them." Financial details of the partnership were not announced.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

When Xconomy convened a dinner discussion earlier this year that included prominent San Diego cybersecurity innovators, startup founders, and system administrators, I was stunned to learn that Gary Hayslip oversees an IT network that blocks an average of 800,000 cyber attacks a day. Hayslip is deputy director and chief information security officer (CISO) for the city of San Diego.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2016

Laguna Beach-based virtual reality technology developer NextVR has raised $80M in a Series B funding round, the company announced this morning. According to NextVR, the funding came from Asian investors. CITIC Guoan Information Industry Co Ltd, NetEase, CMC Holdings, SoftBank Corp., VMS Investment Group, Founder H Fund, China Asset (Holdings) Limited, Spectrum 28, along with Formation Group, Time Warner Investments, Comcast Ventures, Stephen Ross's RSE Ventures, Mandalay Entertainment CEO Peter

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. According to the Wall Street Journal, PFWTMs (“people familiar with the matter”) say the new device will look pretty much the same as the iPhone 6s. The biggest change: no more headphone plug. Customers who want to listen to music or podcasts on their iPhones will need to get Bluetooth earbuds or new headphones with Lightning connectors.

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