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The Pan-Cancer Screen: Still Early for Prime Time

Xconomy

I would be ecstatic to have a simple tool for my patients that could detect cancers like ovarian and pancreatic that currently have no effective screening approach. The most popular approach is screening blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), which several companies claim to reliably detect at very low levels in the blood.

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Girls In Tech Showcases Women Founders In SF Pitch Competition

Xconomy

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. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 In August, 2014, the Defense Department said it had awarded a $58.3 million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8 million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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Productivity in Your Pocket

Xconomy

Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. The screens were still pretty small in those early years, the iPad arrived in 2010, and with it a bigger touch canvas to do real work. inch screen. But First iPad.

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Isaac Garcia, CEO and Founder of Sales Insider

socalTECH

Central Desktop was acquired by PGI (NYSE: PGI) in 2014. So we created this marketplace concept, attracted talent, where we screen them, and only provide the best reps. What is Sales Insider? Isaac Garcia: Sales Insider is a talent marketplace for hiring software sales reps. It's very, very specific. Why software sales reps?

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The Future with Social App Invasions | Snapchat, Then Came ‘Yo’ and Now It’s Emojli

Tech Zulu Event

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.