*socaltech.com <http://socaltech.com> TechNews - Thursday, January 4, 2018* Edited by Benjamin F. Kuo ISSN: 1524-6736 http://www.socaltech.com/News <https://www.socaltech.com/News> ------------------------------
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Fox Foundation <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073243> - PCM Buys Provista UK <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073241> - GameMine Teams With Nickelodeon <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073242> - AeroVironment, SoftBank In $65M JV To Develop Unmanned Aircraft <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073236> - Critical Diagnostics Raises $8.5M For Cardiac Assays <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073235> - DTS Links Into Amazon Alexa <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073234> - SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Prepped For Launch, Zuma Now Set For Friday Launch <#m_-5275779277618008426_0073225> *Marketplace* - Simplify Cloud Management - Multi-Cloud Command & Control from Key Info <#m_-5275779277618008426_ad729> - Neohire South <#m_-5275779277618008426_ad720> - Become a Socaltech Supporter! <#m_-5275779277618008426_ad724> - Tech Coast Map & Calendar – Put Your Company On The Map! <#m_-5275779277618008426_ad717> - Oracle <#m_-5275779277618008426_ad683> - Pixelgate.net - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services <#m_-5275779277618008426_ad188> *Thursday, January 4, 2018* *Square 1 Bank <http://www.square1bank.com>* Square 1 Bank is a division of Pacific Western Bank, a Los Angeles-based commercial bank with over $21 billion in assets. A full service financial services partner to entrepreneurs and their investors, Square 1 provides clients flexible resources and attentive service to help their companies grow. Square 1 offers a broad range of venture debt, treasury and cash management solutions through offices in top innovation centers: Atlanta, Austin, the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Durham, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Diego, Seattle and Washington, DC. Pacific Western Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ:PACW). For more information, visit www.square1bank.com, or send an email to [email protected]. *DermTech Gets Approval In Canada* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073244.html> La Jolla-based molecular dermatology treatment developer *DermTech <http://www.dermtech.com>* announced this morning that its Canadian subsidiary, DermTech Canada, has received approval from Health Canada to market its Pigmented Lesions Assay (PLA) and non-invasive biopsy kit for the detection of melanoma in Canada. DermTech said it will process samples at DermTech's laboratory in La Jolla. DermTech said it will initially make the tests available in British Columbia and Ontario.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073244.html>) *Neuropore Therapies Gets Second Grant From Michael J. Fox Foundation* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073243.html> San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Neuropore Therapies, which is developing biopharmaceuticals to treat Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders, has received a second grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF). According to Neuropore, the grant will go to support its Toll-Like Receptor 2 (TLR2) antagonist program focused on modulating neuroinflammation and autophagy in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073243.html>) *PCM Buys Provista UK* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073241.html> El Segundo-based PCM, which provides information technology products to the business, government, and education markets, said very late Wednesday evening that it has acquired Provista Technology Services Ltd. and its subsidiary, Provista UK Ltd.. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. PCM said it made the acquisition through its UK-based subsidiary, PCM Technology Solutions UK, Ltd. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073241.html>) *GameMine Teams With Nickelodeon* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073242.html> Los Angeles-based mobile games startup GameMine said on Wednesday that it has expanded a partnership with Nickelodeon, the subsidiary of Viacom, and will distribute a line of Nickelodeon mobile games to Swisscom, Moviestar, Orange, A1, and Vodafone in the countries of Switzerland, Spain, Austria, France, Portugal, Belgium, and Poland. GameMine said the new games features such characters as SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Nick Sports. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073242.html>) *AeroVironment, SoftBank In $65M JV To Develop Unmanned Aircraft* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073236.html> Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment said on Wednesday that it is in a joint venture to develop a solar powered, high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system, potentially worth up to $65,011,081. The joint venture is with HAPSMobile, which is 95 percent owned by Japanese technology giant SoftBank Corp.. According to AeroVironment, the unmanned aircraft would be aimed at developing a high-altitude long-endurance, or HALE, UAS for commercial operations. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073236.html>) *Critical Diagnostics Raises $8.5M For Cardiac Assays* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073235.html> San Diego-based *Critical Diagnostics <http://www.criticaldiagnostics.com>* has raised $8.5M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The company develops cardiac biomarker tests used by physicians to assess heart failure patients. Names of the specific investors in the round were not announced, however, the company said it came from a "consortium of industry-related investors". Critical Diagnostics said the proceeds will be used for global commercialization efforts.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073235.html>) *DTS Links Into Amazon Alexa* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073234.html> Calabasas-based DTS, which develops audio- and surround-sound processing software, said today that its Xperi subsidiary has connected its DTS Play-Fi, wireless speakers into Amazon Alexa. According to DTS, the Pioneer Elite Smart Speaker F4, Onkyo Smart Speaker P3 and the Phorus PS10 now support the "Works with Amazon Alexa" functionality. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073234.html>) *SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Prepped For Launch, Zuma Now Set For Friday Launch* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0073225.html> Hawthorne-based SpaceX has shown off new photos and videos of its new, heavy lift rocket, the Falcon Heavy, sitting on a launch pad in Florida. SpaceX has not yet said when it plans to launch the Falcon Heavy, only indicating that the launch is likely to happen sometime this month. The next launch for SpaceX is the mysterious "Zuma" rocket, for an un-named U.S. government customer, which is now set for Friday at 8:00 p.m. from Kennedy Space Center. 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