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Report: Tech Layoffs At Highest Level In Three Years

socalTECH

You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. Image courtesy Bigstock.com READ MORE>>.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. I know all of that.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We use gestures or our voice to control our engagement with our technology. It won’t be long before another round of layoffs comes, and these new tools will create new jobs to fill the gap. We use QR codes to simplify the process. None of this could be mined successfully in the past generation of technology.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

Xconomy

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week.