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| Apr 1, 2022 | Snap, TikTok Urged to Strengthen Parental Controls by State AGs | Attorneys general from 44 U.S. states and territories have urged Snap and TikTok to strengthen parental controls on their platforms, telling the social media giants that they must do more to protect kids online.
In a letter sent to Snap and... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | LA Tech ‘Moves’: Coco, Storyfile and Team Liquid Beef Up Leadership | 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 profile here... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Ethan Pines Photographed Tech CEOs as Heroes. They Look Radically Different as NFTs | You might not recognize photographer Ethan Pines, but there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of his portraits.
The Los Angeles-based artist captured Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes long before her fraud conviction, Uber co-founder Travis K... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Netflix’s Trivia Show Experiment Is Part of Its New Frontier: Video Games | When Netflix releases its new interactive show, “Trivia Quest,” on Friday, Netflix executive Andy Weil hopes that viewers will find themselves thinking about video games.
The 30-episode quiz show isn’t one of the streaming giant’s expanding... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Microsoft-Activision Merger Challenged by U.S. Senators | Activision Blizzard’s $69 billion merger with Microsoft is being challenged by four U.S. senators, who are urging the Federal Trade Commission to reconsider approving the buyout because it wouldn’t benefit workers.
In a letter to the FTC Ch... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Collectors Raises $100 Million, Rolls Out Rebrand | Collectors, a Santa Ana-based company that lets collectors buy, sell and authenticate sports trading cards, rare coins and more online, has raised $100 million in new funding and rolled out a corporate rebrand that consolidates its various ... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | E3 Gaming Conference Won’t Happen At All This Year | The rumors turned out to be true: E3, the annual blockbuster video game conference typically held in Downtown Los Angeles, is once again entirely canceled this year.
The Electronic Software Association (ESA), which runs the event, announced... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Slingshot Aerospace Lands $25 Million Space Force Contract | Fresh off securing a $25 million funding round earlier this month, Slingshot Aerospace has inked a new $25.2 million contract with the U.S. Space Force that will see America’s newest military branch use two of the El Segundo-based startup’s... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Meta Reportedly Paid Consulting Firm to Target TikTok | Meta has reportedly enlisted a major Republican consulting firm to ramp up public pressure on rival social media giant TikTok.
According to a new report by the Washington Post on Wednesday, the Facebook parent company has paid the consultin... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Santa Monica Startup Graze Wants to Make Lawn Mowing Electric (and Autonomous) | Is there any worse sound to wake up to than a gas-powered lawn mower? Not only are they a noise pollutant, but they are clunky environmental ones as well. Insert Graze, a Santa Monica-based startup looking to change the landscaping industry... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Yami Raises $50 Million to Sell Asian Snacks, Beauty Products and Home Goods Online | Yami, an online store that sells Asian snacks, beauty products and home goods, took the wraps off a $50 million Series B funding round on Wednesday.
Two venture firms co-led the round: Menlo Park’s Altos Ventures and New York’s Balsam Bay P... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Unlock Venture Partners Puts Its Portfolio in the Metaverse | A Los Angeles- and Seattle-based investment firm may be the first to put its own portfolio page in the metaverse.
“As far as we know it’s never been done,” Unlock Venture Partners co-founder Sanjay Reddy told dot.LA.
Created by Pixelcanvas,... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | TikTok Teams With Giphy To Launch GIF ‘Library’ Tool | TikTok has launched a new in-app tool called Library, which lets users attach GIFs, memes and clips from popular TV shows and movies to their video creations.
The social media giant said Tuesday that the new tool will initially give creator... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Fashion Tech Works Opens New Coworking Space for Emerging Designers | For Cindy Keefer, CEO of Fashion Tech Works, sustainability has always been a way of life. The woman behind Downtown Los Angeles’ new coworking incubator for designers and artists grew up a far cry from Hollywood, on an organic farm in Wisc... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | ‘Are You Guys Tech Dorks?’: Inside the Opening Night of the NFT LA Conference | On opening night of the inaugural NFT LA conference, a crowd of entrepreneurs, marketers, engineers, YouTubers, hucksters and NFT holders filed into the Los Angeles Convention Center to dish on the nascent technology that had brought them a... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Beyond Meat Faces Doubts Over McDonald’s Collaboration | Beyond Meat’s high-profile collaboration with McDonald’s is not meeting expectations, with underwhelming sales of the plant-based McPlant burger triggering concerns from Wall Street analysts.
On Monday, analysts at investment bank Piper San... |
| Mar 26, 2022 | ‘Every Shopper Will Be a Seller’: Tradesy Founder Tracy DiNunzio Talks Vestiaire Collective Merger | When Tracy DiNunzio had the idea to build a secondhand high-end apparel company, she bootstrapped the business by renting out her bedroom on Airbnb and sleeping on her living room couch.
It worked. Over the past decade, Tradesy—the Los Ange... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Microsoft Says It Won’t Block Activision Labor Unions | A Microsoft executive has said the company “will not stand in the way” of efforts by Activision Blizzard employees to create a labor union—though they stopped short of saying it would voluntarily recognize the first labor union at a major A... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Netflix Buys Its Third Gaming Studio in Six Months | Netflix is continuing its expansion into the world of gaming with the acquisition of yet another mobile game developer, Boss Fight Entertainment.
On Thursday, the streaming giant announced it is buying Texas-based Boss Fight as it looks to ... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | LA Tech ‘Moves’: Stratolaunch Has a New CEO, Former Apple TV Exec Joins NRG | 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 profile here... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | A New Hyperlocal Dating App Is Launching in LA | Dating in Los Angeles can be just as bad as the city’s traffic and air quality. L.A. Dating—a localized meet-up tool for singles that focuses on making neighborhood connections—is hoping to change that.
“L.A. is the premier dating app city,... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | 'We're Fascinated by Mad Geniuses': How the Startup Horror Story Became a Hollywood Subgenre | Hollywood’s new favorite TV genre is the bad startup founder.
Within the last month alone, streaming services have released a flurry of shows about the rapid rise and fall of real-life tech moguls. There’s “The Dropout” (starring Amanda Sey... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | New AI Tech May Help Predict Heart Attacks Five Years in Advance | What if you could predict a heart attack?
Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced this week the development of a tool that uses artificial intelligence to measure artery health and detect future cardiac risks in seemingly healthy... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | The Ultimate LA Guide To The Metaverse | Sly Lee, Isaac Castro and Mauricio Teran have spent the last seven years building a machine that can fuse the virtual world with the real one.
Long before the “metaverse” became a buzzword, the co-founders of Marina del Rey-based Emerge env... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Activision Blizzard Slapped With Another Sexual Harassment Lawsuit | Activision Blizzard has been hit with yet another sexual harassment lawsuit by an employee—adding to a mounting pile of complaints from employees, regulators and investors that could threaten the video game developer’s pending $69 billion m... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | 1Question Aims to Gamify Educational Screen Time | After the pandemic shuttered schools and social activities, screen time among children nearly doubled as digital devices became their sole source of education, recreation and social activities.
The obsession with screens was noted in the El... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Santa Barbara Cybersecurity Startups Are Having a Moment | Two cybersecurity startups that call Santa Barbara home have announced sizable Series B funding rounds.
Theta Lake, which makes security software for companies that use Zoom, Slack and similar tools to communicate, unveiled a $50 million Se... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Snap Buys NextMind To Bolster Its AR Hardware Research | Social media giant Snap has bought NextMind, a Paris-based neuro-tech company that builds mind-controlled headbands, for an undisclosed amount.
The Santa Monica-based company said Wednesday that NextMind will bolster its augmented reality (... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Gamefam Raises $25 Million to Bring Brands into the Metaverse | West Hollywood-based video game studio Gamefam has raised a $25 million Series A round to fuel its business of linking Roblox game developers to brands looking to advertise to Generation Z audiences.
Konvoy Ventures, a VC firm based in Denv... |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Netflix Pushes Further Into Video Games With First-Person Shooter Title | Netflix is expanding further into video games with the upcoming release of three new mobile titles, including its first-ever first-person shooter game.
The streaming giant has already released 14 titles since launching video games on mobile... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Can WeHo-Based Wheels’ Get More Underserved Angelenos to Ride E-Bikes? | When Los Angeles launched its micromobility pilot in 2019, it had big dreams for improving transportation equity for all Angelenos.
Three years later, less than 3,000 people make use of micromobility programs aimed at helping poorer section... |
| Bambee Raises $30 Million to Give Small Businesses HR Help | Sign up for dot.LA's daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California's tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Bambee, a Los Angeles-based startup that takes care of human resources for small- and medium-sized businesses, has r... |
| How Upfront Ventures’ Kobie Fuller Keeps a ‘Performance Mindset’ | On this episode of LA Venture, Upfront Ventures partner Kobie Fuller talks about his approach to investing, understanding users’ needs and why he tries to keep a ‘neutral’ mindset.
Fuller is also the co-founder and chairman of Valence, a co... |
