The Los Angeles metropolitan area is coming of age as a major technology center. Despite its reputation as a single-industry town, it has actually been home to industry-leading tech companies for decades. Much like Silicon Valley to the north, Los Angeles began attracting technology companies
Mirra is a 3D design tool and platform as a service developed for the creation and distribution of interactive immersive experiences that include virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Creators can use Mirra’s environments, components, and drag-and-drop functionality to build and view right in
ParkWhiz announced the launch of a new parking skill for the Amazon Alexa service that allows customers to use voice-activated commands to find, reserve, and pay for parking. The ParkWhiz skill for Alexa offers a hands-free method to find a parking space near an address, calculate
A global leader in educational robotics, Abilix launched their latest line of educational robotics in North America. Called Robotics U, the line is set to “enhance the robotics industry with a revolutionary approach to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, bringing educational robotics to
MakerBot Labs is an experimental platform and open source community for engineers and developers to create, build, customize, and collaborate on MakerBot 3D printing solutions, browse popular print modes, discuss material print profiles, and download software APIs. Users have access to interchangeable nozzles and custom
Square unveiled its newest hardware offering, Square Register, a versatile, fully integrated point-of-sale, built in-house to work seamlessly with any business. Square Register gives sellers a powerful combination of dedicated hardware, embedded point-of-sale software, and Square’s fast and secure payments technology, all built to work together
Extreme Networks, Inc. announced that it has finished its procurement of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.'s data center switching, routing, and analytics business. Brocade's portfolio provides Extreme with “an industry leading data center solution” used by enterprises and service providers, supports the company's growth strategy to
Millennial Esports Corporation announced that former Sony executive Doug Belgrad has joined the company's board of directors. Belgrad served as the president of Motion Picture Group at Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (SPE) from July 2014 to July 2016, previously serving as head of production and
Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management, announced that it has amassed Directworks to better enable customers to manage direct materials and serve the needs of the manufacturing industry. Directworks allows highly engineered product manufacturers to work collaboratively across teams and with suppliers to develop,
Logi Analytics announced that it has been purchased by Marlin Equity Partners, a global private equity firm with over $6.7 billion of capital under management. Logi Analytics’ agile, web-based reporting and data visualization platform provides IT professionals with the fastest way to create BI applications,