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| Nov 23, 2022 | The Quantum Insider Acquires Space Impulse to Expand Market Intelligence Solutions to Space Industry | The Quantum Insider announced today that it has agreed to acquire Space Impulse, a leading provider of data for the global space industry.
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, November 23, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Quantum Insider (TQI), the mark... |
| LA Venture: Technology Crossover Ventures’ David Zhang On His Approach to Investing | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Technology Crossover Venture (TCV) Partner David Zhang discusses his approach to investing.
TCV is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage, early-stage, later-stage and growth-stage compa... |
| How Redditors Convinced ChatGPT To Break All Its Rules | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
The internet continues to be dazzled by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an “AI chatbot” capable of gene... |
| Snap Announces Its OpenAI Powered Chatbot. Is It Enough to Save the Company? | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Today Snap Inc. announced it would add artificial intelligence to its Snapchat app as it ... |
| Inside The Creator Economy’s Middle Class | In 2021, seven years after she first started making content, Allison Florea quit her corporate job. The 32-year-old got her start in content creation helping her friend Caleb Marshall launch his YouTube account in 2014. Florea has since cre... |
| Office Hours: Ford Foundation’s Roy Swan On The Value of Impact Investing | On this episode of Office Hours, Ford Foundation’s Director of Mission Investments Roy Swan talks about his journey into philanthropic investing.
The Ford Foundation is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing social justice... |
| Turning Pain Into Gain: How CoFoundersLab Is Helping Recently Laid Off Workers Become Entrepreneurs | The legions of layoffs across the technology industry are prompting workers to consider new career paths, and while some are opting to leave tech altogether, others are considering founding their own startups. Beverly Hills-based CoFounders... |
| LA Tech ‘Moves’: ByFusion Taps SpaceX Executive | MOCEAN, an advertising services company, promoted president Michael McIntyre to chief executive officer.
Jimmy Peters joined food service platform Galley Solutions as chief revenue officer. Prior to joining, Peters held leadership positions... |
| Impulse Space’s First Mission Will Hitch a Ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 | Building a spacecraft is no simple feat. Which is why historically, most manufacturers have opted to contract outside firms to handle constructing parts of their rockets, sacrificing in-house oversight for speed as they rush towards lucrati... |
| Key Takeaways From The State of Influencer Earnings Report | For anyone who thinks the creator economy was overblown—think again. Influencer marketing company IZEA’s second report on the state of influencer earnings found that payment averages continue to increase. The report breaks influencers into ... |
| Skybound Entertainment’s Crowdfunding Effort Raised $12 Million. Investors Wonder When They’ll Get Paid | Last month, fans of one of science fiction’s most popular franchises were offered an enticing proposition: the opportunity to invest directly in Skybound Entertainment, the owner of “The Walking Dead.”
Since the Jan. 23 announcement, the of... |
| How One USC PhD Candidate Employs Robots To Evaluate Infants | Inside the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) multiple high definition digital cameras are set up in a fixed-rig around a 22-inch bipedal (humanoid) NAO robot and a similar-sized (human) infant, as part of a study by the Infant Neuromot... |
| Welcome To the World Of Ambient 'Sludge' Content | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Scrolling through my TikTok feed in the past month or so, my usual content has been disru... |
| This Week in ‘Raises’: Trust & Will Lands $15M, Health Data Vision Secures $14M | A local digital estate planning software company Trust & Will landed fresh funding to expand the company’s sales and marketing efforts and accelerate product development, while freight technology platform BlueCargo secured funding to ex... |
| From TikTok to Trigonometry: Could ByteDance Corner the Market on Edtech? | The pandemic led to an explosion in startups trying to fix online learning. In 2019, funding in the space reached $5.4 billion. By 2021, that number more than tripled to $16.8 billion.
In Los Angeles, startups like Subject and Numerade beli... |
| Sire Design Founder Eilyn Jimenez on Building an All-Woman Company From the Ground Up | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Sire Design Founder and Director Eilyn Jimenez shares her secret to career success and how her immigrant parents inspired her to go after her dreams.
While Jimenez is also known for her hit Netflix seri... |
| Content Creators Relieved by Susan Wojcicki's Departure From YouTube | When YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki announced her departure from the world’s largest video platform in a letter to its employees last week, she also issued a separate note to its millions of creators.
“Today, the YouTube community i... |
| This Week in ‘Raises’: ImmunityBio Snags $50M, Stelo Lands $6M | Local immunotherapy platform ImmunityBio raised equity financing to provide further working capital and support its business operations, while web3 security company landed fresh funding to expand the team and develop an embedded version of ... |
| Five Tech Stories We’re Following Ahead of This Weekend’s Super Bowl LVII | The Philadelphia Eagles face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in this weekend’s Super Bowl LVII [Writer’s Note: GO BIRDS!!]. Yet again, the Big Game won’t be available to stream on any of the major subscription services. It’s airing on th... |
| The Never Ending Game: Super Nintendo World Offers an Amusement Park Experience You Can Take Home | During last year’s LA Tech Week, the word on every AR professional’s lips was “gamification” — the process of incorporating game elements into everyday experiences to help companies drive traffic and engagement, elevate in-person experience... |
| AI Chatbots Aren’t Sentient. Why Is the Media Trying to Convince Us Otherwise? | Last week, former Google and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt, MIT computer science professor Daniel Huttenlocher, and retired political advisor and diplomat Henry Kissinger (yup, that one) co-authored an editorial for the Wall Stre... |
| Electrification Alone Won’t Save the Planet | In a sprawling new report, researchers from the University of California Davis asked what would would it take for the United States to electrify its entire passenger vehicle market by 2050. Their answer? The country would have to use three ... |
| How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really? | This is the web version of dot.LA’s weekly newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
On Friday morning, Elon Musk responded to a comment on his favorite website about OpenAI... |
| How Two Upcoming SCOTUS Rulings Could Reshape the Internet | Two cases before the Supreme Court this week will reconsider Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and could have a broad and far-reaching impact on internet content. What is section 230?
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 esta... |
| AI Had a Very Bad Week. What Does That Mean for Its Future? | The internet’s love affair with AI continued this week, whether it was Fake Joe Rogan talking about getting “Ratatouille’d” or America’s Presidents being reimagined as cartoon characters.
It’s not just viral memes either. New AI startups, i... |
| Inside JPL’s Mission To Study Massive Solar Flares Close-Up | In the fall of 1859, astronomers around the world were awed and terrified by what is still considered the largest and most well-documented solar storms ever. Dubbed the Carrington Event, the geomagnetic disturbance was only visible for seve... |
| We’re Talking About Autonomous Vehicles the Wrong Way | In 2013, one of my first assignments in graduate school was to read an article in The New Yorker about Google’s new autonomous car. Back then it sounded like autonomous vehicle (AV) technology was just around the corner—that we stood on the... |
| The Empty Promise of TikTok’s New Creator Fund | In a TikTok video posted last month, @itsselahmichelle, a creator with over 30,000 followers revealed the amount of money she made from the company’s creator fund.
$14.32.
Her complaint is a common one: payouts as part of the company’s init... |
| B2U Storage Solutions Opens New Recycled EV Battery Facility | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
As the electric vehicle revolution continues to gather momentum, more and more lithium io... |
| Auto troll: TikTok Responds to Media Addiction Concerns with Auto Scroll Feature | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
If you’re tired of using your thumb to scroll through TikTok’s never-ending oeuvre, don’t... |
| 'We’re Running Out of Ore on Earth': Astroforge Targets April for Test Asteroid Refining Mission | One of the most-used elements in industrial work on Earth is disappearing.
Popular for industrial use because of its resistance to corrosion and heat, platinum sells for over $1,000 an ounce and is in everything from wedding bands to medica... |
| Is the Globalization of Content a Good Thing? | This is a Streaming Plan’s World
The shift from cable and satellite TV over to streaming platforms has had a number of far-reaching impacts on technology, the global economy and pop culture, from changing the kinds of films people go see in... |
| ‘The Next Solution Is a Wearable’: These 3 Startups Are at the Forefront of Digitizing Health | The coronavirus outbreak cast fear across the nation, but the pandemic was extremely stress inducing for those who were medically at-risk. Coupled with the 200,000 health care workers who left the profession last year, there is a bigger nee... |
| LA Tech ‘Moves’: SUMA Wealth Welcomes Back Former CEO, PowerPlant Partners Gains New COO | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA ... |
| Despite the Critiques, Gen Z Swears by Influencer Marketing | After an influx of scandals, some reports suggest that beauty influencers have run their course. Just look at the de-influcing trend—people are outwardly expressing frustration with the sheer amount of sponsored content being pushed on ever... |
| Return to Office Policies Have Tech Workers Considering Their Options | In the last couple of weeks, a surge of tech companies have reversed their COVID-era policies regarding work from home, prompting backlash from employees who are vehemently opposed to returning to the office.
In practice, it’s difficult to ... |
| ‘Life Beyond Likes’: Isa Watson On Her Audio Social Platform Squad | On this episode of Office Hours, Founder and CEO Isa Watson shares the tragic, but inspirational story that led to the creation of her audio social platform, Squad, and the challenges she faces as a Black woman in tech.
“My journey to entre... |
| LA Tech ‘Moves’: Birdy Grey Gains New COO, Procore Technologies Welcomes New CMO | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA ... |
