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Report: Drones Tracking Your Mobile Phone In The San Fernando Valley

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Think you see some suspicious drones overhead in the San Fernando Valley? They are not even a local unmanned aerial vehicle maker testing their products. No, apparently-- according to a report --they are a Singapore startup''s effort to sell your information to marketers.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We spoke with founder Neal Roche about his startup, which provides testing tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. Vendors and startups will embrace OpenStack and Dockers. In 2004, Lief was recognized by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal's �40 Under 40� list. READ MORE>>.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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I think that’s one of the reasons that many of the most interesting bay area startups are choosing to locate themselves in the city. And make-up artists. And post production. In LA companies used to be concentrated near Pasadena or in the San Fernando Valley. And with startups so go VCs. And writers!

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI.