Friday, June 24, 2016Reflexion Health Finds $18MSan Diego-based Reflexion Health, a provider of cloud-based, digital medicine products, said this week that it has raised $18 in a Series B funding round. The funding came from current investor West Partners and others. The startup, led by Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, develops VERA, a software product which is aimed at the physical therapy market. The product provides PTs with a source for rehabilitation exercises, coupling an animated avatar "coach", reports, and telemedicine features which are aimed (More info...)
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Donuts Makes Hostile, $70M Bid For Rightside Group's TLDsDomain name registration provider Donuts Inc, which provide top-level domain registration services, said it has offered to buy the entire registry of generic, top-level domains from Rightside Group, Ltd.. Donuts--which has executives and operations in Los Angeles--said it has offered to pay $70M in cash for Rightside. In what might make for an interesting process, Donuts said that it is making the offer despite Rightside "repeatedly" disregarding its interest in the company.
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Platinum Equity Bumps Offer For Electro Rent To $382MBeverly Hills-based private equity investor Platinum Equity announced this morning that it has bumped its offer for Van Nuys-based Electro Rent to $15.50 per share in cash, up from an earlier, $13.12 per share offer. The new price bumps the total value of the deal to approximately $382.2M. According to Platinum Equity, the increased offer comes due to a receipt by Electro REnt of an unsolicited, third party acquisition proposal. Electro Rent is a provider of test and electronic equipment rentals (More info...)
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IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition Opens RegistrationThe IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, the $5M competition being run by Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, has opened up registrations to teams, and has published guidelines for the artificial intelligence competition. The new competition is seeking to spur teams to create artificial intelligence technology, to challenge some of humanity's most pressing challenges. The new AI XPRIZE--unlike the group's other challenges--is providing an open ended challenge, letting the teams who are entering define their own goals, p (More info...)
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HomeHero, Cedars-Sinai Link On Patient Transition ProgramSanta Monica-based HomeHero, the home care technology and services startup founded by Kyle Hill and Mike Townsend, has linked up with Cedars-Sinai to launch a new program called Safe Transition Home. According to HomeHero and Cedars-Sinai, the new program will help transition patients from the hospital to home, with the goal of reducing inpatient readmissions, raising patient satisfaction and improving health outcomes. HomeHero, which is backed by Graham Holdings, Social+Capital Partnership, Sci (More info...)
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Qualcomm Sues Chinese Company Over Patent LicensingSan Diego-based Qualcomm has filed suit against a Chinese company, Meizu, saying that Meizu has refused to enter into a licensing deal for the company's technology. According to Qualcomm, it had attempted to negotiate with Meizu to sign a patent license agreement, consistent with Qualcomm's agreement with China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in 2015--but that Meizu has gone ahead and used Qualcomm's technology without a patent license agreement. That agreement covers 3G (WCD (More info...)
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Study: More Than 7,620 Cybersecurity Jobs In San DiegoA new study, run by a local nonprofit focused on cybersecurity in San Diego, has tallied up the numbers and found that there are more than 7,620 people employed in the cybersecurity industry in San Diego. The San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence--which is specifically focused on bolstering the growth of the industry in the city--said it found there are a total of 7,620 cyber security jobs in the city, including 3,390 employees at the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), plus an (More info...)
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