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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

TechCrunch LA

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Then the company needed to develop other technologies like vacuum conditioning. It’s immaterial.

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Cymer Lays Off 100, Makes Across The Board Pay Cuts

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San Diego-based Cymer, a developer of light sources used for semiconductor manufacturing, said late Thursday that the firm has laid off 100 people, or 10 percent of its personnel. Cymer announced the move in conjunction with reduced earnings estimates for Q4 2008.

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

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Through the course of that development, what I observed was that people who were knowledgeable about the process of credit scoring spent an inordinate amount of time imparting that knowledge to developers, who then had to build, QA, and integrate, and test it to get it right. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit?

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst. Even then, users are very demanding.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Over demand led the SV Angel team to double the size of the fund to $20 million. Read more: PEHub. Read more: PEHub. OpenCandy.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The arrival of techies has also had a profound effect on the rental market, brokers and real-estate developers say. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. » More.