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Inseego Aborts MiFi Sale, Launches Major Restructuring

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San Diego-based Inseego , the developer of the MiFi wireless hotspots, has aborted its plans to sell off its MiFi division to Chinese company TCL Industries Holdings (H.K.) Limited , and has embarked on a massive restructuring of the company. Inseego said it would immediately recommit to the Mi-Fi business. READ MORE>>.

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Turtle Beach Restructures HyperSound, Seeks Buyer

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San Diego-based audio technology developer Turtle Beach said Monday that it is restructuring its HyperSound business, in a bid to lower the operating costs of that business. As part of that restructuring, the company said that investment banker Piper Jaffray is contiuing "exploration of strategic options"for that business.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

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military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. . —The U.S.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

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The technology was funded by the Department of Defense and comes from MIT’s Lincoln Lab. —In the pink slip department, Cambridge-based Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INFI ) announced 100 layoffs , more than half its workforce, after it terminated its partnership with AbbVie (NYSE: NYSE ) around the cancer drug duvelisib.

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Xconomy’s Top Innovation Stories of the Half Year

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Jeff Buchanan goes deep with a special series on doctors-turned-entrepreneurs in health IT and other medical technologies. Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence at High-Flying 3D Robotics. Jeff Engel maps out New England’s cluster of cybersecurity companies—one of the region’s strengths (and a rich source of acquisition targets).

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NextWave Wireless Gets $100M In Debt, Cuts Staff, Hires Banker

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San Diego-based wireless broadband technology firm NextWave Wireless said today that it has scored a new, $100M debt financing for the firm's business, and made cuts in its staff, along with hiring an investment banker. The company said the restructuring included a reduction in workforce by over 20 percent.

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