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Takeda Unites San Diego Operations At New ‘Biotech-Style’ R&D Center

Xconomy

In 2005, Japan’s big drug firm Takeda acquired a company in North America for the first time. That company was Syrrx, a private San Diego-based biotech that used X-ray crystallography to help determine the structures of disease-related molecules so drugs could be designed to target them. More than 90 percent of them are researchers.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

Tech Zulu Event

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com?

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

socalTECH

Do you have a small task (graphic design, page layout, UI) you wish you had someone do, in an affordable way? Some of the more popular tasks there are for designers, UX, photographers, and videographers. As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site.

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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner

socalTECH

We're unique in that we are a design and build firm, we do both architecture as well as construction. We've got a range of services  from architecture, landscape design, and interior design to the construction side as a general contractor. We think they are the most unique mobile homes every designed and manufactured.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I first met Ethan in 2005. Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. So there you have it.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. What's the next step for your project?

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