*socaltech.com <http://socaltech.com> TechNews - Friday, June 28, 2019* Edited by Benjamin F. Kuo ISSN: 1524-6736 http://www.socaltech.com/News ------------------------------
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Our Southern California technology industry team professionals have deep experience helping online, software, hardware, and cleantech businesses in the local ecosystem to navigate the many issues affecting their businesses and to help them meet their larger strategic goals. Our team provides a wide range of guidance in the key issues effecting technology companies including, M&A advisory, initial public offerings, tax planning and consulting, intellectual property agreements, financial reporting and regulatory compliance matters. For more information, please contact our LA Technology leaders Anthony Ferguson, Tim Clackett, and Kris Kaufmann at [email protected]. http://www.bdo.com *Video Interview: Evan Brandt, VideOMS* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078396.html> For our Friday video interview, we have Evan Brandt, the CEO of VideOMS ( www.videoms.com), an early, seed stage startup offering up a videos, drone shots, photography, and more of real estate property listings nationwide, through a network of drone operators. VideOMS is based in Westlake Village, California. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078396.html>) *Insights: How to Build Your Innovation Community* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078397.html> For our Insights and Opinions section today, where we share contributed articles from the Southern California technology community, we have Eric Eide, of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation, a nonprofit that recently has been working on trying to help support the local entrepreneurial community across the region. Eric was most recently on the Government Relations team at startup electric scooter rental company Bird. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078397.html>) *Hulu Crashes During Democratic Debate* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078399.html> In a black eye for Los Angeles-based online television streaming service Hulu, the service apparently crashed during the Democratic debates on Thursday night, going down for more than an hour. Apparently, the service got stuck showing commercials and put up error messages to users attempting to watch Hulu's live TV service to watch the debates, on NBC and other channels. Hulu has not issued any statements or explanations for the badly timed crash. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078399.html>) *Ingram Micro Aims At SQL Server, Windows Server 2008 Migration* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078398.html> Irvine-based Ingram Micro is taking aim at users of Microsoft's end of life Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 products, saying it has launched a new program to help migrate those products to Microsoft Azure. Ingram Micro--which provides cloud services among its offerings--said its Azure Accelerate program is aimed at helping companies trying to beat Microsoft's end of support date in July for SQL Server and Windows Server 2008. Pricing on the new offering was not announced. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078398.html>) *Report: Major Cybersecurity Breach At El Segundo's PCM* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078395.html> According to a report, from Krebs On Security, El Segundo-based IT services provider PCM has seen a major breach, which allowed attackers to access multiple, client accounts hosted through PCM. According to the report, the intrusion--discovered in mid May of this year--gave attackers the administrative credentials to client accounts within Office 365. The report says it believes the information was being used to conduct gift card fraud at various retailers and financial institutions. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078395.html>) *SpaceX Lands $314M More In Funding, Says Report* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078394.html> Hawthorne-based SpaceX has raised $314.2M in new funding, according to a report from CNBC Thursday, which said part, if not all, of that investment came from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. According to CNBC, the funding came at $214 per share, and will bring the total raised by SpaceX in 2019 to $1.33 billion. Privately held SpaceX rarely announces investment details on its funding. Image: The COSMIC2 mission, one of the satellites launched into space earlier this week from a Falcon Heavy. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078394.html>) *AEG Links With Lyft On Transportation Partnership* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078393.html> Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment venue giant AEG and ridesharing operator Lyft are in a national, transportation partnership, which will bring exclusive "Lyft Zones" at a number of AEG music properties, and also names Lyft its exclusive rideshare, bike, and scooter partner. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. (More... <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078393.html>) *Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina* <http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0078386.html> In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. 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