Monday, May 16, 2016TigerText's New Bot Helps Schedule Appointments, MoreIs a messaging "bot" the answer to helping to improve the quality of health care? Santa Monica-based secure messaging app developer TigerText is looking to see if it is, with a new "bot" it has created for its secure messaging applications. According to TigerText, it has launched HealthBot, a new messagin application which can help healthcare organizations, insurance providers, and large pharmacy chains automated scheduling, provide information about drug interactions and side effects, provide m (More info...)
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ChowNow Extends Android Pay Restaurant CustomersLos Angeles-based ChowNow, which develops tablet-based, online ordering and marketing software for restaurants, has inked a partnership with Google, to help its restaurants accept Android Pay. According to ChowNow, its ordering apps will be updated to include Android Pay as one of the checkout options for its app. ChowNow said the support will be a standard feature, and will not cost additional for its current restaurant customers. The company said about 4,000 independent restaurants will add An (More info...)
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SpaceX Shows Off Landed Rocket CollectionHawthorne-based SpaceX released a series of photos over the weekend, showing off its trio of successfully, landed Falcon 9 rocket stages.
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Alteryx Hires SVP EngineeringIrvine-based data analytics software developer Alteryx has named Jay Bourland as its new Senior Vice President of Engineering, according to the company. Bourland was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager, Customer Communications at Pitney Bowes Software, and has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. Alteryx said Bourland will head up product engineering and quality, analytical applications and data, and product innovation efforts at the company. Alteryx is venture backed by Iconiq (More info...)
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Prisyna Names Marketing DirectorClaremont-based oral health startup Prisyna, which recently raised $6M, has named Robert Riggs as its Director of Marketing. Riggs previously was at Blu Theory Solutions, and also served at Nobel Biocare North America, Oralogix Corporation, and ESPE America. Prisyna operates as a unit of Synedgen. The company said the hire comes as it launches an aggressive sales and marketing effort.
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Arecont Vision Partners With Lens ManufacturerLos Angeles-based high resolution surveillance camera technology developer Arecont Vision says it has added a new partner, Theia Technologies, as part of its partner program. Theia Technologies is a developer of specialty lenses used for the video surveillance market.
Theia is a developer of ultra wide lenses specifically used for high resolution cameras. Arecont develops a 4K, IP video camera used for security applications.
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MSC Software Wins UK Bus ManufacturerNewport Beach-based CAD/CAM software maker MSC Software reported a win in the United Kingdom this morning, with bus and coach manufacturer Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL). Financial details of the win were not announced. Alexander Dennis Limited is using MSC's MSC Apex Modeler, for computer aided, structural design of its single and double deck buses.
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