Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Thousands of others will head to San Francisco for BIO, which has a distinct international flavor. But billions of dollars in acquisitions will be left by the side of the road. Bad FDA news for Teva Pharmaceutical and AstraZeneca also threw outsized acquisitions into question. But the U.S. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

San Antonio — Cytori Therapeutics is in the process of restarting a San Antonio manufacturing facility it gained in February when it acquired Azaya Therapeutics, the maker of nanoparticle-encapsulated generic drugs. The San Diego-based company now plans to find a European distributor for a drug that facility makes.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

San Antonio — Cytori Therapeutics, a San Diego, CA-based developer of drugs that use patients’ own fat tissues to make cellular therapies, is buying the assets of San Antonio-based Azaya Therapeutics in a mostly stock deal, with potential future payments that are dependent on the progress of two drug candidates Cytori is acquiring.

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Xconomy

MAY 6, 2019

Lundbeck could pay Abide shareholders up to another $150 million if the company’s drugs hit certain development and sales. The most advanced of those experimental treatments is ABX-1431, which is in human testing for Tourette’s syndrome and other neurological diseases.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It also is a burgeoning sector.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2018

billion in sales in 2017—said Thursday it had had agreed to buy Senomyx for $1.50 But since then its stock price has fallen significantly, dropping below $1 per share multiple times in the past two years, which nearly got the listing booted from the Nasdaq exchange. Through a U.S. subsidiary, Firmenich—which reported about $3.3

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Despite disappointing duvelisib data a few weeks ago, Infinity still aims to press on with more trials… San Diego’s Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA ) said late Thursday it would cut 100 employees , nearly three quarters of its staff. It is the target of a hostile bid from Sanofi.

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

About this time last year, DNA sequencing giant Illumina upped its financial projections, estimating its sales would grow 20 percent year-over-year. It exceeded that goal, with revenue rising 21 percent to $3.33 billion by the end of 2018. It’s a different financial story this summer.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

It’s currently Biogen’s top-selling product, generating close to $2 billion in sales during the first half of 2016. Biogen has been very deliberate in its dealmaking, reluctant to make a big splash with a large acquisition. George joined Biogen at a very challenging time.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. —New York’s Kadmon Holdings (NASDAQ: KDMN ) raised $75 million in an IPO. apiece, down 20 percent.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. Telaprevir sales rocketed to nearly $1 billion in the first six months, at the time the fastest drug launch ever. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2017

San Antonio — George Perry, a scientist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has long proposed that drug developers and researchers need to look earlier into the roots of Alzheimer’s disease.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Charlie Capen – Co-founder of HowToBeADad.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. My family went without me.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Downtown San Diego Condos. Investment Land For Sale.

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