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Los Angeles-based SeatBoost, which offers up a service which lets passengers use their mobile phones bid on seat upgrades, says it has received an investment from International Airlines Group (IAG).

Santa Barbara-based Sonos says that it can't bring back its old app, despite the huge customer backlash over the company's app design, according to its CEO, Patrick Spence. The company has been ...

In a sign of the eagerness to jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, Simi Valley-based Chatsworth Products--a maker of enclosures, racks, mounting hardware, cable management products, and more ...

Irvine-based GoDocs, a developer of commercial loan document automation software, says it has partnered with a specialty banking company, EverBank. According to GoDocs, it will 'streamline multifamily ...

Westlake Village-based Anchor Operating Systems, a developer of ticketing and point of sale systems, says it has signed a number of customers. The company said it signed Miami's Art XSpace, The ...

A worldwide IT outage--which resulted in chaos in airports, delayed hospital procedures, and more--has been blamed on a end of week update pushed out to Windows machines worldwide by IT management ...

Solana Beach-based Alvys, a developer of logistics and supply chain management software, announced today that it has raised $20.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Titanium Ventures ...

Auto maker Volkswagen Group said this week that it will invest up to $5 billion in Irvine-based EV maker Rivian. According to the two, they are in a joint venture to create a "next generation software ...

San Diego- and Canberra, Australia-based Liquid Instruments said Wednesday that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The funding was led by Breakthrough Victoria, and also included Lockheed Martin ...

Los Angeles-based InfinitForm emerged from stealth today, saying it is developing an AI-copilot for mechanical engineers. The company says it received seed funding in December 2023 from Schematic ...

Los Angeles-based consumer electronics manufacturer Belkin says it is now aiming to be entirely, 100 percent carbon neutral across its business by 2030. The company said it is on the way to 100 ...