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Silicon Beach Report April 21: Snap Inc. Acquires GeoFilter Patent from Mobi for $7.7 Million

L.A. Business Journal

acquires geofilter patent from Mobi for $7.7 Million, Hyperloop One’s Chief Marketing Officer Kimberly Salzer leaves for Ozobot, and CalTech, UCLA ranked top universities for technology transfer.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who see a new marketplace or niche or how to reach the mass market in ways not previously attempted. Commissioner of Patents in 1899. Well, it’s a fair question. Innovation does not always equal invention. ARPANET becomes the Internet.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. Commissioner of Patents in 1899. Well, it’s a fair question. And who said that “Everything that can be invented has been invented?” Ah yes.

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Carbonics: Seeking The Future In Carbon Nanomaterials

socalTECH

in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. We have been working on this at UCLA and USC, where we have been developing the technology, and obviously been putting forward patents, licensing, and developing know-how. How did the team come together?

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Markets now, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Las Vegas. What we have done for the user, is used a patent pending algorithm to sift through north of a million data points a day, and thousands of conversations per second, to help organize and cluster highlights. An example of that is the UCLA flood.

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

socalTECH

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. Where is the technology now, and is it on the market yet?

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