Xconomy

MAY 8, 2018

In the eight years since it was founded, Seismic has become a leader in the market for Web-based software used by corporations and other big customers to manage the online marketing materials created to support sales reps in the field.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2017

Dayton, OH-based Teradata (NYSE: TDC ), which has roughly 1,000 employees at its Teradata Labs engineering unit in San Diego, says today it has acquired StackIQ, a six-year-old startup near San Diego that specializes in software used to automate datacenters in the cloud.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

Joseph Health, a Renton, WA-based organization that operates 51 hospitals and 829 clinics across five US states, announced its latest strategic, IT-focused acquisition last week. Mike Butler is Providence’s president of strategy and operations, and has worked at the organization for over two decades.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Software AG, a German software giant with 4,300 employees, has acquired San Diego-based Zementis, a specialist in machine learning and data science. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a statement Friday, after the acquisition closed last week.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Ad-Juster, a San Diego adtech startup acquired earlier this year by the investment arm of China’s Innotech International Group, Wednesday named local software entrepreneur Dennis Clerke as CEO. He succeeds Ad-Juster founder and president Mike Lewis, who has left the company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2009

San Diego-based Websense said Tuesday that it has acquired Defensio, a provider of technology for dealing with spam on social networking and Web 2.0 Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Defensio's tools are used to stop comment spam in blogs. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2018

LendingPoint , an online provider of direct loans to consumers, has acquired LoanHero , the San Diego fintech with technology that enables merchants to extend instant financing to consumers at the point of sale. Financial terms of the buyout were not disclosed in an announcement Thursday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of March 2019, continues San Diego-based ResMed’s (NYSE: RMD ) “connected healthcare” push that began about five years ago, as Xconomy chronicled last year. [ Updated 12/3/18, 3:30 pm, with CEO comments.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Walmart’s tech incubator in Silicon Valley, Store No 8, has acquired Spatialand , a virtual reality software firm, as its third portfolio company. Venice, CA-based Spatialand worked with Walmart on a project last year, an experience that led to the acquisition, according to the blog post. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Francisco Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, said Monday it has acquired Qualcomm Life, a subsidiary of the San Diego chipmaker that focuses on connecting medical devices to software applications installed at hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Capsule’s products are.

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2018

With the Bio-IT World Conference opening today in Boston, San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN) said it has acquired Edico Genome, a five-year-old startup with technology to accelerate the readout of next-generation sequencing data. Illumina withheld terms of the deal in a statement released this morning.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

ASG Technologies, the Florida-based software company backed by activist hedge fund Elliott Management, has upped its offer for San Diego’s Mitek Systems to $11.50 26 letter the Florida-based software company made public Monday. per share from $10 apiece. That’s according to a Nov.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb. Cisco, the San Jose, CA-based tech giant (NASDAQ: CSCO ), said Tuesday that Luxtera’s advanced chips will help it offer its customers faster and better network service performance.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

San Antonio —Cloud computing giant Rackspace has acquired a company that helps other businesses implement and use the Salesforce software. The deal expands Rackspace’s focus on helping companies use software and computing services, including those of previous competitors.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In some ways, the biggest software acquisition of all time could be a yawner. IBM’s planned $34 billion deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat is a hefty price to pay to give its cloud computing business a shot in the arm.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2019

The Chicago-based tech company, which has long sold narrow-band radios to law enforcement, has been building its arsenal of software and camera technologies through a series of acquisitions. Whereas the public might still think of phones when it comes to.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2018

Semiconductor maker Broadcom, which ended its effort to buy competitor Qualcomm earlier this year, has a new target : New York-based business software maker CA Technologies. The pair announced Wednesday that Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO ), which moved its headquarters from Singapore to San Jose, CA, earlier this year, plans to pay $18.9

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In mid-2018, Tom Bogan was the leader of business planning software company Adaptive Insights as it planned its own next steps. But like Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” the big enterprise software company Workday lured Adaptive Insights away from the IPO altar with a more attractive deal—a $1.55 billion acquisition offer.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

A letter ASG sent to Mitek’s board of directors last week proposing ASG acquire the San Diego-based company asserted Mitek was facing “significant operational uncertainty and risk” following news of the imminent departure of its longtime chief executive and its chief financial officer.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The sector saw more big venture capital deals and acquisitions , while researchers kept plugging away on technology advances. software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019. Meanwhile, A.I.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Broadcom gained Veracode as a part of its blockbuster acquisition of CA Technologies. New York-based CA makes software and provides services for everything from IT management to app development to cybersecurity. Broadcom is selling application security testing business Veracode for $950 million to private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

The potential acquisition, which was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, represents Broadcom’s continued (NASDAQ: AVGO ) interest in broadening its business beyond semiconductors. Though it is one of the largest cybersecurity software providers, Symantec is.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers.

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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. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

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Xconomy

MARCH 11, 2018

After learning that Proper Media , a San Diego specialist in programmatic digital advertising had acquired Spoutable, it took a couple weeks to catch up with Spoutable CEO Jon Belmonte and ask: What happened to Cursive Labs? million on a “venture studio” model that allows experienced entrepreneurs to run with their own ideas.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2018

San Diego and San Francisco. There were a few notable absences from the list, released early today. Detroit, MI, which had high expectations as a competitor, was left out, as was Madison, WI, and most of California. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

After taking over roughly six months ago, StockTwits CEO Ian Rosen made one of his first strategic moves with last week’s acquisition of SparkFin , a San Diego-based fintech app that provides novices with information on investing.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

NASDAQ: AVGO ) has made an unsolicited offer of about $105 billion to acquire San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) is that this deal, if it happens, is going to take time. One thing to bear in mind with today’s news that Broadcom Ltd.

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Xconomy

MARCH 16, 2018

There’s never a dull moment these days at Building N, the San Diego headquarters of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), the wireless technology giant and the world’s biggest maker of the advanced components used in smartphones. [ Updated 3/16/18 3:30 pm. Updated with Qualcomm board announcement. ]

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Xconomy

MARCH 23, 2018

In a short speech to several hundred shareholders at Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) headquarters in San Diego, Jacobs acknowledged the role his father Irwin Jacobs played as Qualcomm’s founding CEO and expressed his gratitude to the employees who created the technologies that led to the wireless Internet, and “changed everything.”

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. 2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall.

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