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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

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. You don’t have to invent the next big thing, just see the place where you can fit technology into a new, much larger environment. Duell, U.S.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. You don’t have to invent the next big thing, just see the place where you can fit a technology into a new, much larger environment. Duell, U.S.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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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 caught up with CEO Kos Galatsis to learn more about the company''s technology, promise, and where the company is today. What can you tell us about Carbonics and its technology? There are a few things. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

socalTECH

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA.

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

SoCal Delicious

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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