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MARCH 14, 2014

San Diego-based prepaid wireless provider Leap Wireless --better known by its prepaid phone brand, Cricket--is now officially part of AT&T, AT&T said late Thursday. billion deal back in July of 2013, with AT&T paying $15 per share in cash to Leap Wireless shareholders. The two had announced the $1.2 READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2014

In an unsurprising--albeit, still painful--move, San Diego-based fleet management software developer Omnitracs is moving its headquarters, and a significant number of jobs, to Dallas, Texas. in an investment in Omnitracs to spur the move, which takes 450 jobs out of San Diego. Omnitracs was formerly part of Qualcomm.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2014

The firm''s founder, Nicholas Woodman, is a graduate of UC San Diego, and came up with the idea for the company while surfing off of San Diego; the company''s investors also include Steamboat Ventures--the venture arm of Walt Disney--which looks to own something around 3 percent of the company. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2014

San Diego-based RapidEngage , a developer of online survey software and tools used to collect customer feedback and to engage users, has been acquired by fellow online survey company QuestionPro. Co-founder Sean Callahan was one of the 2013 socalTECH 50. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

San Diego-based SUNRx , a provider of contract pharmacy administration services, said this morning that it has acquired eAudit Solutions , a provider of audit services for the 340B Drug Discount Program. SUNRx said the acquisition will help create an end-to-end solution providing 340B contract pharmacy management to hospitals.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2021

San Diego-based antenna technology provider Airgain said Thursday that it has acquired NimbleLink, a provider of cellular industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) products and services. NimbleLink was headquartered in Plymouth, MN, and founded in 2013. Airgain financed the deal from its existing cash.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

Outerwall , the parent company of San Diego's EcoATM , has agreed to a private equity buyout by Apollo Global Management , about five months after Outerwall launched an effort to find a buyer. EcoATM had laid of 107 people in San Diego, as it responded to those threats and was attempted to cut its costs. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2014

San Diego-based Cubic Corporation said this morning that it has acquired Intific , a developer of game software used in modeling, simulation, training, education, cyber-waefare, and neuroscience. According to Cubic, Austin, Texas-based Intific had approximately $14M in revenues in 2013, and had 80 employees. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Not long after ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT ) acquired San Diego-based LonoCloud in 2013 , former LonoCloud executives Tom Caldwell and Hossein Eslambolchi met for coffee at the Specialty’s Café and Bakery in University City. Webroot also plans to expand in San Diego, and Caldwell said he plans to stay on.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

San Diego-based Cadence Pharmaceuticals , a biopharmaceuticals firm developing an intravenous formulation of acetominophen for treating pain, has been acquired by Irish biopharmaceuticals firm Mallinckrodt , in a deal worth $1.3 for calendar year 2013. for calendar year 2013. Mallinckrodt said it will pay $14.00

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2017

San Diego-based Accriva Diagnostics , the Sorrento Valley developer of in-vitro blood testing equipment, has been acquired by Spanish company Werfen , via its subsidiary, Instrumentation Laboratory (IL). Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The deal was announced last week. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

San Diego-based RF Industries , which designs and manufactures interconnect and cable assemblies for the wireless, medical, and industrial market, said today that it has acquired Comnet Telecom Supply. RF industries says that Comnet had revenues of approximately $8M in fiscal 2013. Comnet was based in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

San Diego-based CRISI Medical Systems , a developer of drug delivery systems for IV injectable medications, has been acquired by BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company). Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. acquisition merger lifescience injection system delivery drug dickinson becton medical crisi'

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2012

San Diego-based NextWave Wireless said last night that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the transfer of control of its various spectrum licenses to AT&T , the last remaining regulatory approval required under the merger agreement between the companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based biotech investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit, saying late Tuesday evening that it has entered into a definitive agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to sell Sitari Pharmaceuticals to GSK. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Sitari was led by CEO Jay Lichter, Ph.D.,

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

San Diego-based sports and activity registration provider Active Network appears to be looking for a buyer, or maybe an outside investment, saying yesterday that it has created a committee to evaluate "strategic transactions". for the three months ended June 30, 2013. Active Network reported a net loss of $2.7M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

San Diego-based cell phone recycling kiosk operator ecoATM , which is owned by Outerwall, is being targeted by an investor group which wants Outerwall to sell of ecoATM--as well as other assets. ecoATM, which is still based in San Diego, was acquired by Outerwall in July of 2013 for $350M, by Outerwall subsidiary Coinstar.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based Android gaming console maker Ouya has been acquired by San Diego gaming accessory marker Razer , the two disclosed this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

When a group of scientists from Amira Pharmaceuticals wanted to start a new biotech after the company’s 2011 acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb , Celgene provided seed funding. Rob Williamson, a longtime biotech entrepreneur, joined PharmAkea as CEO in 2013 after the company formed its “build-to-buy”-style.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

GlaxoSmithKline is acquiring a startup it helped launch in 2013 as part of an alliance with life sciences venture capital firm Avalon Ventures. Financial terms of the acquisition were. Sitari was the first of eight companies spun up through the partnership between the Southern California investment outfit and British pharma company.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. In 2013, when Sequenom reported a $107.4 In 2014, Sequenom sold a genetic analysis tool and a bioscience facility to San Diego-based Agena Bioscience for $31.8

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Luckily, the LA Tech scene is helping to establish a new post-recession era, evidenced by SGN’s (Social Gaming Network) acquisition of San Diego-based developer Mob Science and their current projection of $50 Million for the year of 2013.

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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

JUNE 23, 2016

Without the aid of venture capital , the small upstart says, it has grown to “tens of thousands” of customers in five metro areas: the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and San Diego. But getting to this point has been a painstaking slog filled with logistical and political challenges.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It also is a burgeoning sector.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Redmond, WA, technology giant combined several of its startup-focused projects—including an earlier investment vehicle, the Bing Fund—under that name in 2013. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. Peggy Johnson.

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JULY 21, 2016

He also benefited from a program already in place, an oral multiple sclerosis drug called dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera) that went on to win FDA approval in 2013 and become a blockbuster drug. Biogen has been very deliberate in its dealmaking, reluctant to make a big splash with a large acquisition.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

In 2012, then-Research Triangle Park, NC-based Tranzyme Pharma, which was acquired by Ocera Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OCRX ) in a reverse merger in 2013, stopped work on its experimental treatment for the condition after the company’s pill was outperformed by a placebo in a mid-stage clinical trial.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The increase in dollars flowing to agtech comes despite commodity prices that are down 65 percent from their 2013 peak, the report says. Perhaps that’s because they see acquisitions as the most likely path for an exit. They also queried 15 VC firms. Photo of corn field by Flickr user fishhawk under a Creative Commons license.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Called sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), the drug won FDA approval in December 2013. Telaprevir’s sales cratered, and Vertex axed 15 percent of its workforce in October 2013. With evidence of up to 90 percent cure rates in three months and a very clean safety profile, sofosbuvir quickly made telaprevir obsolete.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. Celgene remains an Acetylon investor, however, and the two are testing drugs together in a variety of trials.

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