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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --Goldstar Debuts iOS App, Now Over $100M In Revenues --Teledyne Acquires Marine Sensor and Engineering Firm --BeachMint Expands Product Line --FreedomPop Links With Telespree --DriveCam Wins Wisconsin Trucking Company --DTS Adds UltraViolet Decoding To PowerDVD --Hulu Launches Chromecast For iPhone --Gumiyo Acquired By Talus Labs --Microsemi Buys Symmetricom --Vicente Capital Invests In Wireless Software Company --Insightra Medical Gets Funding For Medical Devices MARKETPLACE --SoCal IP Law Group LLP --Need insurance? 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The company works with venues to help fill unsold seats to consumers who might not have been aware of events. Goldstar has so far been fully bootstrapped by its founders. Teledyne Acquires Marine Sensor and Engineering Firm ---- Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies, the diversified provider of scientific instrumentation, digital imaging products, defense electronics, systems, and other products, said this morning that it has acquired marine engineering firm C.D. Limited (CDL), which is headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Teledyne said that CDL is a supplier of subsea inertial navigation systems and motion sensors for a variety of marine applications. Those sensors are used in remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and other systems. Teledyne said CDL's products include gyrocompasses, attitude and heading reference systems, and inertial navigation systems. CDL will be renamed Teledyne CDL Limited. BeachMint Expands Product Line ---- Santa Monica-based BeachMint said Monday that it is expanding its product line via its JewelMint web site, with a new collection of jewelry from designer Richard Chai. The company--which runs JewelMint, StyleMint, ShoeMint and intiMINT--said the new products are part of the "JewelMint Studio Series Collection", where it is providing jewelry collections from award winning designers, at its accessible price points. BeachMint's investors include Accel Partners, Anthem Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Lightbank, Millennium Technology Value Partners, New Enterprise Associates, New World Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Stanford University, and Trinity Ventures. FreedomPop Links With Telespree ---- Los Angeles-based FreedomPop, the venture-backed startup which is offering up both free broadband as well as free phone service, said today that it has selected Telespree Communications to provide real-time data services for its 3G/4G LTE smartphones and data devices. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Telespree is a provider of mobile services to carriers, including mobile marketing services, seesion monitoring, real-time charging, and more. The two said that FreedomPop is using Telespree's service to control access to VoIP and data on its newly launched FreedomPop Phone. The two companies said they plan to use the integration to offer up special promotions and offers, advertising, and more to FreedomPop's users. DriveCam Wins Wisconsin Trucking Company ---- San Diego-based fleet management and driver monitoring products provider DriveCam reported a win this morning with trucking operator Veriha Trucking. DriveCam said the Wisconsin-based company will roll out its products to its entire fleet. Size of the deal was not announced. DriveCam's systems use both data and video to help fleet managers better manage their drivers, including monitoring driving behavior and fuel consumption. DTS Adds UltraViolet Decoding To PowerDVD ---- Calabasas-based audio encoding technology provider DTS said today that PowerDVD, the media player from Cyberlink, will support decoding of the DTS-HD format from new UltraViolet Common File Format (CFF) files. CyberLink's PowerDVD player is used to view DVDs, Blu-Ray, and other media. DTS-HD is an audio encoding scheme for 7.1 channel sound. The companies said that PowerDVD already supports DTS-HD encoded on Blu-ray and DVDs, and the new release adds UltraViolet format decoding support. Financial aspects of the new support were not announced. Hulu Launches Chromecast For iPhone ---- Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu said Monday that it has launched Hulu Plus for Chromecast on the iPhone, giving the ability for users to control video on their Chromecast connected TVs. Hulu had already been offering up Android and iPad support for the app prior to the new release. Chromecast is Google's online video streaming service for connected TVs. According to Hulu, the new support lets users control video and streaming of Hulu Plus content on Chromecast connected TVs from the iPhone. Hulu has been working with Google to develop its Chromecast apps. Gumiyo Acquired By Talus Labs ---- Los Angeles-based mobile software developer Gumiyo has quietly been acquired by fellow Los Angeles company Talus Labs, a developer of a platform used for selling digital products to local businesses. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. The acquisition actually occurred in Q2 of this year, but was not formally announced. Gumiyo's team has already been integrated into Talus Labs. Talus Labs is backed by Blackstone Capital. Gumiyo co-founder Shuki Lehavi said the Talus saw an opportunity to deliver the Gumiyo products (such as MySiteAnywhere.com) to local resellers using its own platform, and to also offer its own products to Gumiyo's customers. Microsemi Buys Symmetricom ---- Aliso Viejo-based semiconductor developer Microsemi announced Monday that it has acquired Symmetricom, a San Jose-based developer of timing and frequency components. According to Microsemi, it will pay $7.18 per share--or approximately $230M--for Symmetricom. Symmetricom's chips are used in GPS satellites, for atomic clocks and timekeeping standards, the power grid, and many other applications. Microsemi said the deal is a 49 percent premium based on average closing price of Symmetricom during the last 90 days. Vicente Capital Invests In Wireless Software Company ---- Los Angeles-based private equity investor Vicente Capital Partners announced MOnday that it has invested in iBwave Solutions, a Canadian company providing in-building wireless design software. Financial details of the investment were not announced. Vicente Capital said that its Growth Equity Fund, jointly with Farol Asset Management, acquired a "significant" equity interest in iBwave, which is based in Montreal, Canada. iBwave said it has over 500 clients worldwide, including all of the tier-1, wireless operators in North America. The company's software and associated services are used in the in-building wireless network design market. Klaus Koch of Vincente Capital Partners, and Krishnan Ramawami, an advisor to Vicente, are both joining IBwave's board as part of the funding. Insightra Medical Gets Funding For Medical Devices ---- Irvine-based Insightra Medical, the developer of a medical device used for treating hernias, has raised a Series C financing round, the company announced this morning. Size of the round was not announced. The funding was co-led by Baird Capital, and also included Tekla Capital Management. The company said that Michael Liang from Baird Capital and Frank Gentile from Tekla will both join the company's board as part of the funding. The funds go towards product development, sales force growth, and international expansion. The company's first product is the Freedom Inguinal Hernia System. http://www.socaltech.com/insightra_medical_gets_funding_for_medical_devices/s-0052001.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARKETPLACE Reach 10000+ readers for 5 days for $250 Post your marketplace ad at: http://www.socaltech.com/postad.html ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- SoCal IP Law Group LLP Serving the IP Needs of Businesses: IP Litigation . IP Counsel . IP Transactions . Patent & Trademark Prosecution Westlake Village . Santa Barbara . Irvine. 805-230-1350 i...@socalip.com http://www.socalip.com ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- Need insurance? 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See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23666 October 22, Irvine -- Medical Device & Investor Forum 2013. OCTANe’s Medical Device & Investor Forum is the leading medtech industry conference in the West. It’s where industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors come together in the nation’s most dynamic medical device environment to see the latest technologies and investment trends. MDIF 2013 will take place October 22 - 23. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23283 October 22, Santa Monica -- Sean Astin on Kickstarter Success: a Fireside Chat. Are you a fan of Lord of the Rings, Rudy, or Goonies? Are you thinking of launching a crowdfunding campaign? Did you know that Sean Astin - who has performed in more than 70 film and TV shows during his carreer - has launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the growth of his Political Radio/Video Talk Show, Vox Populi? FilmBreak invites you to an exclusive Fireside Chat to hear from Sean himself as he discusses his crowdfunding journey on Kickstarter. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23754 October 22, San Diego -- Intel Capital Global Summit. Invite-only. Meet the world’s top CEOs, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23741 October 23, Santa Monica -- Mobile Privacy Summit. The Application Developers Alliance Mobile Privacy Summit presents developers, entrepreneurs, and mobile app publishers the opportunity to speak directly to the United States’ top privacy policy makers. California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Federal Trade Commission will join industry leaders and privacy experts to discuss industry best practices, regulatory requirement, and the role and responsibility of publishers, platforms and advertisers to insure the privacy of mobile application users. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23727 October 23, Marina Del Rey -- Mobile Excellence Awards. The Mobile Excellence Awards recognizes industry excellence to all walks of the mobile ecosystem to include; start-ups, studios, content providers, entertainment, entities, technology sports, apps and handsets, brands and more. Submit your company and be recognized and honored in front of industry leaders & influencers, peers. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23696 October 23, Thousand Oaks -- Benefit Corporations: Making a positive impact while remaining profitable. California Lutheran University School of Management. Benefit corporations are becoming increasingly popular. Living in a space somewhere between nonprofits and traditional business models, “B-Corps” are created so that business leaders are encouraged to look at the social impact of their decisions. Benefit corporations are still set up to make money, but profit does not have to be the exclusive goal. In fact they are legally required to show how they create a public benefit in order to stay in compliance. Come join us as three experts on benefit corporations share experiences, knowledge, insight, and advice to anyone interested in this new type of business. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23735 October 23, Santa Monica -- Fireside Chat w/ Return Path Co-Founder & CEO, Matt Blumberg - Startups Uncensored #41. his month's Startups Uncensored will be a fireside chat with Return Path Co- Founder & CEO, Matt Blumberg hosted by Docstoc CEO, Jason Nazar. Matt Blumberg founded Return Path in 1999 because he believed the world needed email to work better. Matt is passionate about enhancing the online relationship between email subscribers and marketers so that both sides of the equation benefit. It is with great pride that he has watched this initial creation grow to a company of more than 325 employees with the market leading brand, innovative products, and the email industry’s most renowned experts. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23755 October 23, Marina del Rey -- IAWTV and WeVideo Mixer. The International Academy of Web Television and WeVideo will be holding a cocktail mixer and Entertainment Technology Panel this Wednesday October 23rd. Award winning producers and directors from Hollywood, television and the online video industry will be sharing their thoughts on the impact of the cloud, and the future of film, TV and online video production. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23757 October 23, Los Angeles -- Eco-Technology. TechInMotion. LA is becoming ever-more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly, especially in regards to cars (since we all spend SO much time in traffic). The recent popularity of the electric vehicle is one way in which Angelinos take pride in reducing their impact on the environment. Join us for an eco-tech talk where EV Connect will reveal insight into EV charging, specific technologies such as tools to create efficiency, admin web and driver mobile apps and a discussion about the future of EV charging station software and networks. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23753 October 23, San Diego -- Intel Capital Global Summit. Invite-only. Meet the world’s top CEOs, decision-makers, and entrepreneurs. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23742 October 24, Los Angeles -- Growth Capital Conference. Network with capital sources, advisors, deal makers and 100 entrepreneurs seeking capital & counsel. DEAL DISPLAYtm showcases attractive firms needing growth capital. View products, videos, online demos. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23618 October 25, La Jolla -- SDVG: Who Needs a VC Anyway! Corporate partners, philanthropic organizations, royalty finance, "build to suit" Whatever happened to the good old Series A? Can everyone go public now? Join us as we discuss the changing world of lifescience financing. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23728 November 1, Santa Monica -- Tech Coast Angels Deal Screening Meeting @ ROC. Invite only. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23378 November 2, Santa Monica -- Health Interactive. Exhibits and information on health and wellness technology. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23691 November 3, San Diego -- FutureMed. FutureMed is the acclaimed specialized interactive forum for physicians, scientists, healthcare executives, innovators, inventors and investors (and media) who are interested in exploring the impact and opportunities presented by disruptive, rapidly developing technologies in the fields of health and biomedicine. The San Diego program will explore the convergence of technologies ranging from cloud-based healthcare data, regenerative medicine, 3D printing, synthetic biology, and wearable devices to the merging of mobile health with artificial intelligence. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23744 November 4, San Diego -- FutureMed. FutureMed is the acclaimed specialized interactive forum for physicians, scientists, healthcare executives, innovators, inventors and investors (and media) who are interested in exploring the impact and opportunities presented by disruptive, rapidly developing technologies in the fields of health and biomedicine. The San Diego program will explore the convergence of technologies ranging from cloud-based healthcare data, regenerative medicine, 3D printing, synthetic biology, and wearable devices to the merging of mobile health with artificial intelligence. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23745 November 5, San Diego -- FutureMed. FutureMed is the acclaimed specialized interactive forum for physicians, scientists, healthcare executives, innovators, inventors and investors (and media) who are interested in exploring the impact and opportunities presented by disruptive, rapidly developing technologies in the fields of health and biomedicine. The San Diego program will explore the convergence of technologies ranging from cloud-based healthcare data, regenerative medicine, 3D printing, synthetic biology, and wearable devices to the merging of mobile health with artificial intelligence. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23746 November 7, Santa Monica -- LA CEOs. LA CEOs presents: Affordable Care Act. The federal government has released major regulations and is moving full speed ahead with implementation of the law. It is imperative that companies do the same. Executives in tax, human resources, information technology, and finance need to become familiar with the impending deadlines and develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing key provisions of the law. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23724 November 8, Orange -- Survivor 8. TCVN. TCVN presents SURVIVOR 8, a business fast-pitch competition offering entrepreneurs unprecedented opportunity to compete for funding, gain visibility and network with investors. The event will feature a catered dinner, top shelf cash bar, live music, prizes, complimentary parking and exclusive networking with prestigious Orange County entrepreneurs and business professionals. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23698 November 8, Los Angeles -- LA CTO Forum. LA CTO Forum is a vibrant, private, invite-only network of software CTOs who exchange ideas, share experiences, and help each other when needed. We conduct monthly meetings, quarterly roundtables, and discuss different business and technology topics. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23476 November 9, Los Angeles -- SoCal Code Camp. SoCal Code Camp is a free 2 day technology conference. We currently have sessions on Web Development, JavaScript, Mobile Development, Web Design and more. Great presentations, lunch and a fun free attendee party. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23737 November 10, Los Angeles -- SoCal Code Camp Day 2. SoCal Code Camp is a free technology conference. We currently have sessions on Web Development, JavaScript, Mobile Development, Web Design and more. Great presentations and lunch. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23738 November 12, Thousand Oaks -- Hire A Vet In Biotech. Please join us to celebrate the day after Veteran’s Day and the job opportunities for vets in our local biotech industry. We’ll gather at the new Ventura Biotech Center in Newbury Park (near Amgen) and hear from two panels of experts on the jobs available and services to support the over 5,000 vets that return to our region each year and the 50,000+ already living here. Biotech Industry Panel – How Do I Get A Job in Biotech? Ted Bagley, Vice President, Human Resources, Amgen, Vietnam vet; Barbara Burgess, Director of Staffing/Diversity & HR Planning, Amgen; Greg Cauchon, Director, Ventura BioCenter, President of Amethyst Life Sciences, Inc.; Ron Greenwood, CEO, Global Energy & Technology, Vietnam vet and Founder (with Lisa Greenwood) of Gold Coast Veterans Foundation; Veteran Services Panel -- As A Vet, How Do I Train to be a Vet in Biotech? Debbie Gregory, CEO, MilitaryConnection.com, Founder, VAMBOA.org; Mike McManus, County of Ventura, Veteran Services Officer, Senior Master Sergeant (ret), USAF; JC Oberst, Executive Director, Gold Coast Veterans Foundation; Kendra Angier, Campus Vice President, University of Phoenix. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23756 November 14, Los Angeles -- LA Tech Summit. Meet the hottest companies in Los Angeles and learn what makes "LA Tech" the most innovative technology ecosystem in the nation. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23720 November 15, Santa Monica -- Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum 2013. The exclusive annual Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum 2013 for a second time will bring together some of the world’s leading investors, world-class entrepreneurs and innovators making Los Angeles again an ambitious international hub of entrepreneurship with a forward- looking agenda. Last year our Forum attracted distinguished representatives from Argentina, Canada, Russia, Romania, Poland, Germany, the U.K., Italy, China, India and Brazil and has been called a “Davos of Entrepreneurship”. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23402 November 15, Santa Monica -- Tech Coast Angels Deal Screening Meeting @ ROC. Invite only. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/23379 November 15, Santa Monica -- 2nd Annual Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum. Launched in 2012 on a fundamental belief that access to capital should be equitable and unbiased, our Forum quickly has become Los Angeles’s foremost meeting place for the extraordinary thinkers and game-changers. Our audience include a unique mix of world-class entrepreneurs, innovators, scientists, artists, private investors, leading crowdfunders and foreign governments representatives. 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