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Uber Plans Flying Taxis In Los Angeles By 2020

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On-demand ridesharing service Uber hopes to bring flying taxis to Los Angeles by 2020, the company said this morning, and has just signed a contract with the U.S. Uber has said it will operate the "ridesharing for the sky" service from special rooftop take-off-and-landing sites throughout Los Angeles.

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22 Los Angeles Startups You Need to Watch Out For

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Los Angeles, for one, is not only brimming with innovative ideas, it’s also home to a wide range of unique startups that are solving the problems of the world. This is evident from the fact that they are owned and run by EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year award finalists in the Greater Los Angeles area. Xencor Inc.

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Startup Development

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I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup software development scattered around in different posts. How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources.

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth

TechCrunch LA

That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. Now, more than $35 million dollars later , the company has been awarded a multi-year contract to build and operate its own rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch LA

“When the stations went down we really couldn’t get anyone on site because most of the issues were communication issues, vandalism, firmware updates or swapping out a part — all things that were not electrical,” Terry said. ChargerHelp takes a workforce-development approach to finding employees. Hiring approach.

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Yahoo Outsources Yahoo Shopping To PriceGrabber

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Yahoo said Monday that it is dropping its outsource most of Yahoo Shopping, its comparison shopping to Los Angeles-based PriceGrabber , the firm told its developers Monday. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed by Yahoo.

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AECOM Wins Big Nuclear Project Deal In UK

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Los Angeles-based AECOM , a big professional and technical services and infrastructure developer, reported a big win in the UK this morning, as part of a big nuclear power project. The company said the initial contract with AWE's Nuclear Capability project is worth $3M until 2020. Department of Energy sites.