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Cybersecurity Training Effort In El Segundo Aimed At Next Generation

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An all week, cybersecurity training effort being held this week in El Segundo--run by AT&T and the Air Force Association (AFA)--is educating teenagers on cybersecurity careers and skills, in hopes of building the next generation of cybersecurity efforts.

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Elon Musk: Tesla Was Born In A Fish Restaurant In El Segundo

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Tesla , the pioneering electric car maker founded by Elon Musk , was actually conceived over lunch at a fish restaurant in El Segundo, Musk said in an interview at SXSW this week. According to Musk, the company was created out of a conversation he had with J.B. READ MORE>>.

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Millennium Space Systems Shows Off Satellite Deorbiting Technology

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El Segundo-based Millennium Space Systems, which was acquired by Boeing in 2018, said this morning that it has demonstrated its technology, which allows companies to "deorbit" their satellites in significantly less time than normally required after a satellite's usable life.

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Slingshot Aerospace Picks Up $40.85M More For Space Tracking Systems

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El Segundo, California and Austin, Texas-based Slingshot Aerospace announced this morning that it has raised $40.85M in a funding round, a Series A2 funding. The funding also included additional venture loan funding from Horizon Technology Finance.

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Aerospace Incubator Starburst Is Lifting Industry in LA

L.A. Business Journal

In the five years since French space and defense technology accelerator Starburst Aerospace announced plans to open its first American office in El Segundo, the aerospace industry has grown rapidly in Los Angeles County.

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Insight Acquires PCM for $581M in Cash and Debt

L.A. Business Journal

El Segundo-based information technology services firm PCM Inc. will be acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based based Insight Enterprises Inc. in a deal worth roughly $581 million.

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GoGuardian Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With Latest Investment

L.A. Business Journal

GoGuardian, an El Segundo-based educational technology company, has raised $200 million from a New York-based private equity firm in a deal that values GoGuardian at well over $1 billion.