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Qualcomm Launches Third QPrize Competition

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San Diego-based Qualcomm has launched its third annual QPrize competition, the competition where the firm looks to vet and fund early stage technology companies from around the world. Qualcomm said entries are due by August 17th. READ MORE>>.

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Close5: eBay's San Diego Move Into The Mobile, Local Market

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In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com), Why San Diego?

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Echo Labs Wins “Quick Pitch” Contest with Digital Hybrid Microscope

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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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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. It goes without saying that the shortening in time also was due to performance. We do reserve part of the fund to opportunistically get involved with some B-round deals.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

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His message was that he realized he needed to move his girlfriend’s stuff into a storage facility due to apartment flooding. It was in San Diego and I had space in my apartment but I had a lot of extra stuff that was easier stored in a facility. The first one out even won a major tech conference award. I felt bad.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

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With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Bio Roundup: Dunsire’s Danish, Price Hikes, Rare-Disease Race & More

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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.