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Ozobot Boosts Executive Team

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Redondo Beach-based Ozobot , which develops educational robotics products, says that it has named Joby Otero as its Chief Product Officer, and Kim Salzer as Chief Marketing Officer. Otero was most recently Chief Creative Officer at Anki, and Salzer was most recently Chief Marketing Officer at Hyperloop One.

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OzoBot Raises $3M For Educational Robots

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Redondo Beach-based Ozobot , which develops educational robots used for teaching software coding, has raised $3M in a Series A funding round, the company said late Wednesday. Ozobot said the new funding goes towards product development of its products. The funding was led by Tribeca Venture Partners.

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Modnique Expands In Russia

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Redondo Beach-based Modnique , an online fashion retailer which runs flash sales events on apparel, handbags, kids, and other products, said Monday that it has launched a new site in Russia. The company said the Russian site offers up full Russian language capabilities, local payment options, and more.

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Ozobot Opens Preorders For Educational Robot

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Redondo Beach-based Ozobot , a developer of minature, educational robots, said this morning that it has begun pre-orders of its product. Ozobot is an interactive robotic device, which follows the paths of mazes, interacts with a user on paper, and connects with an Android phone.

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iCONECT Hires Silver As CTO

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Redondo Beach-based iCONECT Development , a developer of litigation support software, said this morning that it has hired on former X1 Technologies Vice President Howard G. According to iCONECT, Silver will spearhead new product development for the firm, which is used by corporations, law firms, and others for electronic discovery.

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Staff Ranker: Helping Hospitality Businesses Better Manage Workers

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However, Redondo Beach-based StaffRanker (www.staffranker.com) has rolled out a system to help those companies better manage what is a notoriously difficult segment of the labor market, which has a lot of turnover and which just doesn''t match existing, corporate performance management systems. It turns out, it''s not so easy.

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Projecturf Takes On Project Management

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Redondo Beach-based Projecturf has launched a new, online project and collaboration software product, which the firm is targeting to small and medium sized businesses. According to the site, it provides task tracking software for managing initiatives and projects, and is targeted at users of Microsoft Project.