socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down with Dr. Alfred Wong , Chief Science Officer, and Albert Liu , Vice President of Business Development, at Pong Research (www.pongresearch.com), a company developing products for redirecting cell phone antennas to reduce the radiation exposure of users. Talk about the technology behind the product?

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Xconomy

MAY 6, 2019

The La Jolla-CA-based company, spun out of research from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is developing drugs to treat diseases of the central nervous system, among them Tourette syndrome. Lundbeck could pay Abide shareholders up to another $150 million if the company’s drugs hit certain development and sales.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

San Diego-based Cyntellect , a developer of scientific equipment for the life science and stem cell research market, reported today that it has opened up a new European headquarters in the U.K. The firm said the firm now has a team of sales, scientific, and service support staff located across the U.K.,

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals announced today that it has agreed to sell its combinatorial compound library and screening technology, in a deal worth $1.8M. Ligand said the sale came because the screening technology was no longer required for the firm's research activities.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 13, 2019

“It’s one big black hole with groceries, not knowing what is exactly on the retail shelf and available for sale,” says Richard Schwartz, president and CEO of Pensa Systems in Austin. trillion annually, according to IHL, a Tennessee firm that specializes in retail and hospitality research. Inaccurate inventory costs retailers $1.1

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2009

San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics said Thursday that it has raised approximately $4.2M The publicly held firm said the funding will go towards sales and marketing of its products. Cytori is developing products used for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, as well as for stem cell research.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2008

San Diego-based Avaak, which is developing wireless video networking technology, said Thursday that it has raised $7M in a Series A funding. According to Avaak, the funding will go towards product development, marketing, and sales.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Another achievement in 2016 was the sale of our Irvine based portfolio company, Digital Map Solutions. Jeb Spencer: Although I spend all my time in software, I am completely enamored with the work that is being done at San Diego based genetic research firm Illumina.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2009

San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics , which is developing medical technologies for regenerative medicine, said late Friday that the firm has raised $10M in a private placement. Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. billion , according to ArcView Market Research. The ArcView Group is a partner in CanopyBoulder).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. It will be controversial – I know.

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Xconomy

APRIL 28, 2017

To judge the first 100 days of a new administration is, as many pundits have pointed out, an odd vestige of history, more convenient than significant. Which is why we’ll start this week’s roundup with our 99-day evaluation of the Trump administration—at least when it comes to healthcare and the life sciences.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University shared data that shows the state is the nation’s second-largest exporter of life sciences products , with $9.9 Several world-class research institutions are located in the state, including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.

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Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

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. The market for drugs for rare or “orphan” diseases continues to grow.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. —Buzzfeed ran a lengthy report Wednesday on the sexual harassment charges against University of Washington vaccine researcher Michael Katze.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What are the implications of a Trump administration for life science research, or next year’s reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act? —Check out these stories from Nature , Reuters , TheStreet.com , and Forbes for more on the potential election fallout for life science companies, scientific research, and Obamacare.

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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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

But sales of the vaccine, which were initially projected to reach €200 million this year, barely reached €20 million in the first half of the year, with little sign of picking up. The real reason for Dengvaxia’s mediocre sales, though, may have more to do with its shaky scientific merit. billion in its development.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. The decision shelves a program that BioMarin bought two years ago for $680 million. But the U.S.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

. —Shares of San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) fell more than 32 percent after the next-gen sequencing giant slashed its revenue projections once again. But sagging sales have sent Illumina far down from last year’s peak. But sagging sales have sent Illumina far down from last year’s peak. in July 2015.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers are planning a cancer trial that could be the first ever to use the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to create a human therapy. Rape is a co-founder of San Francisco biotech Nurix. . Let’s get right to it.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In three years, Vertex went from having a billion-dollar hepatitis C business to zero—abandoning the research completely. Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. Then it exited HCV research entirely. “It

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. [ This article is co-authored by Stephanie Woerner. ]. However, there is still room for competition. If you haven’t yet made this transition, you’re not alone.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 The Continued Growth of Cloud. Where security concerns may have previously put companies off cloud, the tide may now be turning.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You've got to find each one, and research them online. Jonathan Simkin: One of the things I did after graudating, is I joined CONNECT, which is like the entrepreneurial center and hub in San Diego, which is run in conjunction with UCSD and other schools here. That takes a while to do, probably a couple of hours per student.

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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 was in a long-running battle with Carl Icahn about its strategic direction and hadn’t produced any FDA approved drugs in six years. George joined Biogen at a very challenging time.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. Who is using your services--retailers or manufacturers? Kim Folsom: Both.

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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. His tenure was marked by a steadfast emphasis of home-grown research over deal making.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Ionis can get up to $150 million in downstream payments tied to regulatory milestones, and would get royalties on any sales of nusinersen. Cure SMA helped fund the drug program in 2003 when it started out as research at the University of Massachusetts, before it was licensed to Ionis.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. The week started on a reflective note. And then the news flowed, from a fast reprieve for Juno Therapeutics to no mercy for Elizabeth Holmes. —In other Merck news, U.K.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

The deal also includes a $175 million deferred payment due in 2019 and $850 million in downstream payouts tied to regulatory and sales targets. —San Carlos, CA-based BioCardia will also go public via a reverse merger , four months after dropping plans for an IPO.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

A key scientist involved in integrin research, Harvard University immunologist Tim Springer, is spinning out a biotech startup to develop a new generation of integrin-blocking drugs—pills instead of antibody-based injections—that he says will benefit from “a complete understanding” of these complex molecules.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Austin —Apple expects to make thousands of new hires around the country from Seattle to New York, the company announced Thursday, with its biggest growth planned for Austin, TX. The computer and smartphone manufacturer plans to hire 5,000 new employees in Austin and to spend $1 billion building a new campus on the north end of Austin.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Dan previously was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at the Brown University Computer Graphics Group and has won a number of Computer Science awards. Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. link] Keep A Breast.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. Upstate NY Retreat For Sale.

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