Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard that runs the global competition, kicked Blitzchung out of the tournament, revoked his $10,000 prize winnings and banned him from Hearthstone esports for a year. Analysts said the response indicated how dependent the company is on China and its massive consumer market.

Airbnb has put this defense to the test, with mixed results. The company sued both Santa Monica, Calif., and Boston over regulations that compelled the company to enforce and monitor illegal listings. Airbnb settled with Boston last month in a compromise that required residents seeking to rent their properties to prove they had permission to do ...

At IndieCade, however, an annual independent-focused game event that concluded Saturday in Santa Monica, the votes were unanimous: Join the magic rebellion. No real surprise that IndieCade attendees would favor a more autonomous route. For more than a decade, IndieCade has showcased what’s underground, what’s next and what’s important in ...

Santa Monica, CA, Aug. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioSig Technologies, Inc. (BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to address an unmet technology need for the $4.6 billion ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethiq®, a new and free non-partisan platform designed to help citizens make more informed consumer purchasing decisions, has launched its beta, accessible at beta.ethiq.com. Ethiq taps into government ...

TV Time has about 35 employees, most based at its Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters, with a three-person team in Paris who came from TVShow Time. the company has raised $60 million to date from investors include WME, Eminence Capital, IVP, Raine Ventures ...

Clean energy and sustainability rule the roost here in Santa Monica. Bikes, Birds ... According to cafcp.org (California Fuel Cell Partnership), only 4,926 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are on the road right now. For these drivers, only 35 hydrogen ...

After he figured out how to consistently replicate the problems (no small feat), fleet master Ayapana scheduled a service visit at our local Jaguar service center (Hornburg of Santa Monica, California). The timing was fortuitous—our F-Pace was also due ...

Uber contributes $3.2 billion a year to California’s economy with a net impact of $390 ... “And if I get a ride that takes me over to the beach I’ll have lunch there. I can be in Santa Monica at 2 p.m. and West L.A. at 4 p.m. I probably do about ...