Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced the appointment of Ashley Z. Hand as the transportation technology strategist fellow at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). The fellowship is funded by a grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation and serves as part of Mayor Garcetti’s effort to build a tech-savvy transportation system that helps Angelenos navigate the city — including wi-fi equipped smart bus…
BLANKSPACES is a pioneer in the world of coworking spaces, both locally and internationally. When architect Jerome Chang opened Blankspace’s first location in the mid-Wilshire area in 2007, it was the first coworking space south of San Francisco, and among the first dozen such spaces in the country. Blankspaces is a coworking community of freelancers & entrepreneurs, and has flexible office spaces…
As part if the national day of hacking, the City of Los Angeles did its part in drawing hundreds of participants in the one of the largest, if not THE largest, civic gathering of its kind this past weekend. The weekend kicked off Friday night at coworking studio CTRL Collective, which opens soon in Playa Vista, LA’s hub for companies such as…
When you think of downtown’s US Bank building, you usually think “the tallest building west of the Mississippi,” or that scene from Independence Day, or its buttoned-up denizens doing very serious work. Or… you think of a girl dressed as a pizza. Such is the case of RHUBARB STUDIOS, the innovation lab and shared-working space that opened at the beginning of 2015.…
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to continue to waive filming fee on municipal property, such as airports, libraries, and city parks. This extension runs through June 2019. Numerous shows have taken advantage of this waiver, including Scandal and Newsroom. For more financial details behind the deal and its impact on the LA / California economy, read the full report.
DAVID CARTER has had an extensive history with tech startups. Prior to moving to LA in 2008, he ran two companies with successful exits (Vertical Technologies sold to Zebra in 1995, and Thoughtstar sold to iManage in 2000), was Entrepreneuer in Residence at a Salt Lake City venture fund, founded/ran a wireless company for five years, and has served as an investor,…
Tubefilter and VH1 have partnered for the first-ever television broadcast of the Streamy Awards. The 5th Annual Streamy Awards, honoring the best in online video and the creators behind it, will air live on VH1 and its digital platforms from the historic Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 10:00 pm ET/delayed PT. “The VH1 audience is connected on every platform.…
On the surface, the idea seems preposterous — convince a few dozen tech companies all throughout Los Angeles to host an hour-long open house / semi-recruitment rah rah session in the form of thought-provoking salons, all in a single day — and yet, somehow, the damn thing worked. Bigtime. On Wednesday November 19, John Batelle’s NewCo hit Los Angeles, after similar events…
