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Kumbaya Joins Off Grid Solar Energy Group

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Rancho Palos Verdes-based Kumbaya , a startup developing devices that combine solar power, batteries, lighting, TV and radio, and a computer designed for deployment in third world countries, says it has joined the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA).

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Jazz Semiconductor, ADSANTEC Get Win At NASA

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Newport Beach-based Jazz Semiconductor and Rancho Palos Verdes-based ADSANTEC , a fabless semiconductor design firm, said today that the companies have been selected by NASA for designing a SERDES ASIC.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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You literally feel like you’re perching over the most beautiful beaches in the world and you see all the way up the coastline from Ranchos Palos Verdes in the south to Malibu in the North. ” It was an Art Deco style building and we were able to design an office that kept the concrete and the wood.