Since 1981, the Los Angeles Economic Development Council (LAEDC) has worked to attract, retain and grow businesses among LA County’s 10 million residents, via free business assistance and attraction programs, economic research and analysis, real estate advisory services, trade and investment assistance, and public policy leadership. The organization’s ultimate goal has been to create prosperity through job creation. LAEDC members and partners…
Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. This includes the introduction of Cornerstone View, an interactive data visualization application that gives business leaders deeper intelligence about their people, as well as Cornerstone Planning, an intuitive workforce planning application that helps organizations easily create, manage and execute…
VIRGIN GALACTIC is coming to Long Beach with a massive 150,000 square foot facility. The company will also be hosting a job fair and open house on March 7. Per the press release: Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, is pleased to announce it has leased a new 150,000…
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…
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.…
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.…
