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

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ It’ll be some years before such uber-computers are robust and reliable enough for broad commercial use.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

On top of writing the best-selling 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things , which popularized the concept of human-centered. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website. The Consumer Technology Association estimates that nearly 44 million voice-enabled assistants will be sold this year in the United States. Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2018

It’s even worth asking whether they’re worth writing about at all. Wednesday was ASCO abstract day, and we’ll round up the headliners below, all with caveats that these early peeks are not peer-reviewed and could be updated in a couple weeks. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

APRIL 14, 2017

Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on Textio’s company blog. Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?” “OK OK Google, remind me to pay the power bill.” Alexa, tell me a joke!” Bots are eating the world.

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Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2017

While close examination of a person’s DNA might help spot disease early or prevent it altogether, it also might spur “unnecessary costly follow-up,” the authors write. The study is limited by its small scope, but it is the first with some rigor to examine outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Tell us about that.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2017

There is no Obamacare replacement, at least not as of this writing. The Senate Republicans are fractured, with a handful of conservatives and moderates each giving a cold shoulder to their chamber’s version of healthcare reform, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

5 letter to the House ethics committee, Polis writes, “It is clear that the existing disclosure laws and requirements adequately cover virtual currency.” Polis wants it to become a clear requirement. He urges the committee to provide guidance so that members and their staffers disclose their virtual currency.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

As of this writing, it was trading at nearly $92 per share, up more than 5 percent from Friday’s closing price. The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Fueled by high winds, low humidity, and ample dry vegetation, fires swept through several towns across the state and, as of this writing, have barely been contained. In a year of tragedies across the U.S., natural or otherwise, it seemed this week was California’s turn.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

But as of this writing, McConnell will allow a vote next week to start open debate, much less tightly controlled than the secretive BCRA that went nowhere. A straight-up repeal, floated by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, was also shot down.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. none that feel like the blogging, free commenting, or even anything like Geocities.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Meanwhile, this year’s deal count is declining sharply, a sign that venture investors are still writing bigger checks for fewer deals. That would be second only to the $78.9 billion that venture firms invested in 2015, according to PitchBook records that began in 2000.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. How are you backed?

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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 flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Charley Grant, writing in The Wall Street Journal , commented that, “Any action to curb price increases on older drugs would hurt manufacturers that rely on them to generate growth.” In his blog Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures contrasted “exploiters and innovators,” the former a subset of the generic industry.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. Normally, Western composers write in keys or scales that alternate whole steps and half steps between notes. McCartney, writing Michelle , and Croce in Time in a Bottle , add nice turn arounds at the end.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations. The Wolfram Language is a programming language. Reprints | Share:

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

And in New York, these folks are writing a musical about Martin Shkreli—specifically, the hilarious rumor that Bill Murray might steal back the Wu-Tang Clan album Shkreli bought for $2 million. First reported by Deadline Hollywood , Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play Holmes.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We In a recently published paper, Horvitz and Stanford computer science PhD student Ethan Fast analyzed the last 30 years of articles about artificial intelligence in the New York Times.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Heather McPhaul is the founder of AgingGal.com , a funny little blog about aging and other inconveniences.

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