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Illumina Wins Favorable Ruling In Patent Suit

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San Diego-based life sciences equipment maker Illumina said Thursday that it has received a favorable outcome in its patent litigation against Life Technologies. Patent Nos. Life Technologies sued Illumina over the patents in 2009. Illumina said that a judge in the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Leads In Green Businesses, Says Report

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However, the report split employment across Southern California across the Inland Empire (3,630 jobs), Los Angeles, Orange County (3,895 jobs), and San Diego (2,389) separately, and if accounting for all of those areas together, Southern California actually had more jobs in total--19,284--than the Bay Area in clean technology.

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Los Angeles Among Top Areas For Green Jobs

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In the report--which evaluated current and historical job postings, early stage and public market investment activity, clean tech patents, and other factors--The LA-Riverside-OC Metro ranked just behind San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, nationwide, in clean tech jobs. San Diego ranked at number 11.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. So you're making multiple applications?

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. I think the big challenge, is to take advantage of the homogenization of the West Coast--the corridor between San Francisco and San Diego--and taking advantage of the fact that things are becoming more blended.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.