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  • ImmunityBio Links With Amyris On COVID-19 Vaccines

    Culver City-based ImmunityBio and Emeryville-based Amyris said today that the two companies are in a joint venture to commercialize a COVID-19 vaccine. Financial details of the deal were not announced. The two said they will combine their vaccine techn…

  • Amazon, Twitter, Meta, And Others Pull Out Of CES

    In a blow to the return to normal for the tech industry, a number of companies–including Amazon, Meta, and Twitter–announced yesterday that they will not be attending what had been expected to be the first, in-person Consumer Electronics Show since t…

  • Zymo Research Donates COVID-19 Testing Kits

    Irvine-based ,a href=”https://www.zymoresearch.com”>Zymo Research, a provider of molecular biology tools, says it has donated one million COVID-19 testing kits to a molecular diagnostics company in Hyderabad, India. According to Zymo, the molecular dia…

  • Netflix To Require Vaccination For Production

    In a sign of growing concern over lagging vaccination rates driving a new surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States, Netflix said this week that it will now require actors and others on productions to be vaccinaed. The news apparently will make netf…

  • Yardi Donates $1.3M To Hospitals In India

    According to Santa Barbara-based Yardi, it is donating $1.3M to hospitals in India, to help them in their battle against the ongoing pandemic. India–which officially has more than 380,000 deaths from COVID-19, with actual deaths potentially several ti…

  • Blizzard Cancels BlizzCon for 2021

    Irvine-based videogame developer Blizzard said today that it is once again cancelling Blizzcon, its annual conference, due to fluctuating guidelines around events in California during the pandemic. According to Blizzard, it now plans a “global event” i…