TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2020

SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.

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JUNE 29, 2020

A report , from VentureBeat, talks about how the videogame maker is navigating the pandemic, employees with COVID-19, and plans for reopening--and how CEO Bobby Kotick has been personally involved in the effort. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2018

A report from Bloomberg, published Thursday afternoon, says that San Diego-based Qualcomm is planning to cut its workforce in California by about 1,500. According to the report, the cut is in response to investors pressuring the company to cut its costs by about $1 billion. Qualcomm has about 34,000 employees globally.

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MARCH 22, 2019

San Diego- and Redwood City-based crowdfunding sight GoFundMe has banned anti-vaccine crowdfunding efforts on its site, according to reports , in a bid to battle the spread of misinformation. GoFundMe reportedly said that campaigns raising money to promote misinformation about vaccines violate its terms of service.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In a scathing report--published over the holiday weekend--the WSJ says that Venice-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat. is "struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular" saying that Spiegel's "imperious style" has caused users to flee from the service. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

less than 18 months from when the company was created so I thought it was probably a good time to weigh in on the questions I get asked most frequently and why we’re so excited about Bird. How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? That’s what we all thought about Uber, too.

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JULY 30, 2019

A major data breach at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), appears to have given hackers access to personal information on roughly 2,500 officers and 17,500 applicants to the department, according to a report on Tuesday.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based scooter rental service Bird has laid off approximately 5% of its full-time staff, according to a report on Thursday, in what has been attributed to an effort to "contain costs". The report said 40 people were laid off.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

A report--published this morning by CNBC--says that Elon Musk turned down a settlement offer with the SEC , which would have barred him as Chairman of Tesla for two years, and required two independent directors, but where Musk would neither admit or deny culpability. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? We're excited about everything in podcasting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

Fred Wilson immediately weighed in on her analysis , a meme was born and we were off to the races talking about “Unicorns.” I’m not talking about raising money at a billion dollars. I’m talking about making your company memorable by describing it with a narrative that people will later remember.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

According to Bloomberg on Tuesday, the investigation centers around Musk's tweets about taking Tesla private last month, and saying that he had "funding secured" to sell the company at $420 per share. According to report, the SEC was aready investigating possible "misleading pronouncements" on manufacturing goals and sales at Tesla.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to hold Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in contempt for violating a settlement Musk made last year with the SEC, due to a tweet earlier this month where Musk talked about production numbers for Tesla's vehicles, according to a report on Monday from Bloomberg. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

A new report, published by Bloomberg , says that the concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built by Los Angeles-based SolarReserve was essentially obsolete before it even went online. The plant--built with more than $1 billion--uses a giant array of mirrors to heat up molten salt, which can be used to store power even after the sun goes down.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

The Chinese report claims that employees received the news about the funding on December 13th. Los Angeles-based Faraday Future , the troubled electric car maker, has reportedly raised $1 billion in new funding, according to a Chinese publication. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 21, 2014

A new report, released over the weekend, says that Los Angeles should look towards New York and San Francisco and what they have done to help strengthen the community here for technology startups. Tech Agenda report, edited by David C. angeles tech agenda report economic growth garcetti' READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Don’t worry about scaling just yet. Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you.

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MARCH 21, 2016

A new report, issued Monday, says that IPO activity has slowed significantly in Q1, with a 39 percent drop in volume and 70 percent decline in total capital raised versus Q1 of last year. The report, from Ernst & Young, said that companies are likely exploring other options or waiting for confidence to return for their IPOs.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Ridesharing giant Uber is considering a major deal to buy either Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental service Bird , or possibly, Bird's key rival, Lime , according to a report.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In the months between Round 19 and Round 20, about four hundred pull requests were processed. sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5. More information can be found in OfficeFloor's blog post about round 20.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A ransomware attack earlier this year at the Los Angeles Unified School District is a wake-up call about threats to the nation from cyberattacks, according to a story today from VentureBeat. The attack affected more than 650,000 students and 75,000 employees earlier this year.

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 27, 2017

About 30 percent of brand accounts on Snapchat are dormant, Virtualitics raises $3M to Visualize data in VR and AR, and SpaceX runs Hyperloop contest this weekend.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 6, 2020

Chinese gaming giant Beijing Kunlun has agreed to sell popular gay dating app Grindr for about $608 million, ending a tumultuous four years under Chinese ownership. Reuters reports that the Chinese company sold its 98% stake in Grindr to a U.S.-based based company, San Vicente Acquisition Partners.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2024

The work continued for about eight weeks between the two of us as we visited the 27 locations and worked with employees in departments across all disciplines within each location and at central offices that performed services for all locations. We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results.

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MARCH 14, 2016

the natural baby products retailer founded by Jessica Alba, is facing a major crisis after an investigative report published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, which claimed the Honest Co.'s s Alba said she was "extremely disappointed" by the article, which she said was "full of misrepresentations about The Honest Company".

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Costa Mesa-based networking equipment maker Emulex is in the midst of discussions with private equity investors, to take the company private, according to a report Monday. The report, from Reuters, said that Emulex has talked with such private equity investors as Francisco Partners, Thoma Bravo, and Thomas H. Lee about a deal.

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Xconomy

MARCH 1, 2019

In this Xconomy Special Report, our veteran biotech journalists Alex Lash and Ben Fidler bring you deep insights, based on conversations with key industry leaders, on what 2019 and beyond hold for biopharmaceutical companies. In this Report, you’ll learn: The key indicators that suggest a possible downturn is on the way.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

A new report this morning says that Hawthorne-based spaceship and rocket developer Space Exploration Technologies is in the midst of raising a new round of investment, which values the company at around $10 billion. The report came from TechCrunch. Amount of funding, and the investors involved, have not been disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works. brb walking out.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

A new report-- published by Gizmodo on Monday--says that Ring cameras are giving a lot more information about users' location than users might suspect, with the locations of "tens of thousands" of cameras easily obtainable by researchers.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Glendale-based LegalZoom , the online legal documents site which was co-founded by Brian Lee and lawyer Robert Shapiro, is reportedly about to file for its IPO, according to a report today. Reuters, citing sources close to the firm, said the filing is expected in coming weeks.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Called Dell Technologies Capital, the investment arm plans to provide funding to about 20 startups this year, Scott Darling, president of group, told Bloomberg , which first reported the news this morning.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2012

Some great managers do this by keeping a mental or physical list of several, perhaps three, key performance indicators for each direct report, and quizzing about progress in regular planned or chance meetings. It’s all about your performance, especially when you’re physically absent some or much of the time.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Is another, Los Angeles consumer startup-- The Honest Company --about to be acquired by Unilever ? An unconfirmed report Thursday afternoon, from TechCrunch, says that Unilever is in early talks to acquire the company, founded by Jessica Alba and SoCal serial entrepreneur Brian Lee.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2015

A report Tuesday in the Financial Times said that investment giant Fidelity has written its investment in Los Angeles-based Snapchat by 25 percent, citing data from a Morningstar report. Snapchat--arguably, the most visible "unicorn" startup in Southern California--had been valued at $15 billion in its last fundraising round.

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MAY 2, 2024

Many of us have someone who reports directly to us and who supervises others in return. My lesson learned about this mantra: [Email readers, continue here…] After returning to my office, I received a call from the CEO. Well, this one is for you. Where did this statement come from? I could not have been more pleased.

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