Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The winner of the largest-ever startup pitch contest in San Diego is aiming to solve a problem that is weighing heavily on the national consciousness. The same day President Trump signed a bipartisan package of measures to address the opioid epidemic, San Diego startup NeuraLace Medical won $50,000 on Wednesday at the annual John G.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2020

The competition for Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals now has a new winner : La Jolla Pharmaceutical. San Diego-based La Jolla (NASDAQ: LJPC ) has pledged to pay Tetraphase shareholders $43 million in cash now plus another $16 million tied to sales goals for Tetraphase (NASDAQ: TTPH ) antibiotic eravacycline (Xerava).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Nearly one year after DNA sequencing machine maker Illumina announced plans to acquire smaller rival Pacific Biosciences , antitrust regulators in the UK say the merger could stifle competition in the region and reduce industry innovation. The Competition and Markets Authority has been eying the proposed $1.2

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2018

A San Diego software development team with an idea for an emergency mobile app that it said would be faster than calling 911 is headed this week to US Ignite’s Application Summit in Kansas City, MO. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Mission Edge, a nonprofit organization backed by the San Diego Foundation and three corporations, has chosen 10 companies and organizations to participate in a 12-week program intended to improve each entity’s financial performance, and thereby long-term sustainability. Ken Davenport, CEO of San Diego-based Mission.

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2019

Financial firms are facing competition from legacy players and disruptive fintech startups as technology continues to reshape the heavily regulated industry. Two financial firms are betting on a nonprofit incubator program in San Diego in hopes of identifying top talent and potential targets for investment or acquisition.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

[ Updated, 2:45 pm ET, see below ] There is another update today in the competitive race to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an increasingly common liver disease with no FDA-approved therapies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In a blog post , Brisco said that the firm decided to become a private firm again, because it would be a "good deal" for shareholders, and also said it could become "even more focused" on long-term growth. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma The first competition in the CAR-T field will be in adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma. If you’re not ASH-saturated by now, stay tuned: We’ll have more hematology coverage later this week. Note: Ben Fidler co-authored this report.]

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Helen Torley, who was highlighted in 2016 as the only female CEO of a public life sciences company in San Diego , was recognized last week for her operational excellence at Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO ). The regional competition is part of the global. The 16 finalists are in the above photo.)

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

But previews of the big data presentations are out today, yielding more insight into what promises to be the first major competition in CAR-T cell therapy: Treatments for people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) who have run out of other options and likely have only a few months to live.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2018

Our friend and one of our earliest employees, San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow, died suddenly last weekend. Bruce covered everything—and everyone—in San Diego’s innovation scene, including the life sciences. Xconomy was dumbstruck this week, and not by the fireworks overhead.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

San Diego-based Sirenas , which has developed technology to rapidly isolate and synthesize potential drug compounds from marine organisms, said it has received a $775,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

In another setback for Google’s Internet business, the tech giant has decided to wind down the Boston-area operations of Webpass, a wireless Internet service provider Google Fiber acquired in June 2016. A statement e-mailed by a Google spokeswoman didn’t give a reason for the decision.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 30, 2020

In other words, it’s a mixed bag when it comes to efforts to diversify biotech companies—a push that BIO believes will improve the competitiveness of the industry. Others have no women or people of color as employees, gather no data on employee demographics, and have no initiatives in place to support diversity and inclusion.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the tie-up.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

The field has gotten so competitive that multiple products are on the market for some diseases. An April report from Evaluate Pharma predicted sales of orphan drugs to rise 12 percent a year between now and 2024, when they will account for an estimated 20 percent of worldwide prescription drug sales.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

I recently spoke to an international group of entrepreneurship professors at San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. You can also check out my hands-on startup advice blog HERE. You will have ample time to make a huge impact on the world, after you graduate.”. Get More Than A Degree. Share and Enjoy.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Now, as competition in this young sector ramps up, one of the big questions is what type of incentive will attract the most individuals. The latest experiment comes from Nebula Genomics, the San Francisco- and Boston-based startup co-founded last year by Harvard University professor and genomics pioneer George Church, and backed by $4.3

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The FDA is trying to tame high insulin prices by encouraging price competition. The price of insulin, a life-saving treatment discovered a century ago, has been a flashpoint amid the broader drug pricing debate. The FDA has historically regarded insulin as a drug.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Scooping up Raleigh, NC-based Red Hat (NYSE: RHT ) could make IBM (NYSE: IBM ) more competitive with bigger cloud players such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, says Michael Skok, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MAY 15, 2020

French firm Genfit reported a trial failure in an intensely competitive indication, and New York-based Bristol Myers Squibb encountered a delay when the FDA declined to review its experimental multiple myeloma treatment. This was a disappointing week for at least two major drug makers.

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Xconomy

MAY 17, 2019

A lawsuit is now claiming that many top generic drug makers routinely conspired to avoid competition. During his tenure as FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb often spoke about generics as a market force that could help tame climbing drug prices. But such tools only work when companies play fair.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2019

He steered Vertex through a crisis when its hepatitis C business was squashed by competition. Vertex surprised Wall Street this week by announcing Leiden’s seven-year run will end next spring. In some ways, his legacy is already written.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Hello, Chair.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 14, 2018

to offer competitive pricing pressure. But the university also allowed them to patent the improvements they made, which enabled them to slap higher prices on each new version. In the nearly 100 years since insulin’s discovery, no generic version has become available in the U.S. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb is trying to change that.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Competition isn’t the biggest problem in a field so primed for innovation, says Tang, who is. So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers? Plenty, says Chon Tang, one of the leaders involved in launching a new program for chip developers at UC Berkeley’s growing startup accelerator SkyDeck.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. Supreme Court this week refused to reinstate four disputed patents related to daptomycin, according to Reuters.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is in charge of the government insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate the price of “the bare minimum” of 25 high-priced drugs a year that don’t have generic or biosimilar competition. Insulin would also be included.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2017

No surprise, then, that the startup category in our first-ever Awards program was a particularly competitive one, loaded with private companies (no more than 5 years old) in several biotech hotspots: gene editing, microbiome research, immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine, digital health and more.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The latest salvo in the increasingly competitive sector is a $50 million investment in Alto Pharmacy, a San Francisco-based “digital pharmacy” startup that has offices in Denver. Like others in its industry, Alto offers online ordering and delivery (including same-day delivery) of prescription drugs.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Cerence is a spinout from pioneering speech recognition company Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN ), and it will carry on the work of Nuance’s former automotive division —a longtime player in the hotly competitive drive to equip vehicles to take full advantage of voice interactivity, artificial intelligence, and mobile Internet connections.

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