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Long Beach, BYD Motors Cancel Electric Bus Deal

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Chinese electric car and bus manufacturer BYD Motors said Thursday that it has agreed to mutually terminate a contract with the Long Beach Transportation Company , for ten electric buses for the city. The contract had been worth $12.1M; Long Beach is expected to reopen bidding on the contract. READ MORE>>.

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OpenAirplane Targets Los Angeles With Airplane Rental Service

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Tech-savvy users who like services like Zipcar, Uber, RelayRides, and Car2Go are used to being able to now rent and find cars by the hour or day in areas like Los Angeles. The addition of Los Angeles as a market came as OpenAirplane also added service in new York, Chicago, San Jose, Kissimmee, and Detroit. READ MORE>>.

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Flywheel Expands Into Los Angeles, Ramps Up Taxi vs. Rideshare Battle

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The fight between Los Angeles taxicab drivers and services like Lyft and Uber haas just gotten even more interesting, as mobile app developer Flywheel said it has launched in Los Angeles. The company also said it is offering up a $10 ride credit in Los Angeles for users to try out the service, with promo code FLYLA10.

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Relativity Space Secures New HQ In Long Beach

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Los Angeles-based Relativity Space , which is venture backed by Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, Phillip Spector formerly of Intelsat, and Mark Cuban, says it has secured new headquarters space in Long Beach, where it will set up its business operations and manufacturing.

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AmazonLocal Launches In Los Angeles

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AmazonLocal , the daily deals site run by Amazon.com, has quietly launched in the Los Angeles area, as the firm starts a national expansion of its daily deals effort. According to AmazonLocal's web site, it now is offering deals in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Inland Empire, and on the Westside/South Bay.

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LA Leads In Entrepreneurs, Says Report

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A new study released by the Kauffman Foundation this week shows that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has the highest number of entrepreneurs per 100,000 people, of the top fifteen largest MSAs.

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Curative received FDA emergency use authorization for its novel COVID-19 tests

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The company says that its tests have already been used by the City of Los Angeles since late March and have tested over 53,000 city residents. The Curative tests are already used by Los Angeles, Long Beach and through testing organized by LA County and the LA County Fire and Sherrif’s Department.