SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- How To Sell Your Business: The Process Of An Acquisition. Paul Johnson, a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch, one of San Diego's largest law offices, gives insight and training on the process of sophisticated merger and acquisition negotiations.

San Diego 100

San Diego Tips Training Demand 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Jitterbug , which operates a wireless service aimed at seniors and others, said today that it has acquired MobiWatch , a developer of mobile, personal emergency response services. Tags: jitterbug mobiwatch merger acquisition wireless emergency. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 133

San Diego Training Mobile Acquisition 133

Xconomy

MAY 4, 2018

Through acquisitions and alliances, they rolled out a spate of large-scale combination trials. Now, in the wake of one failed trial, the IDO train has skidded off the tracks. For a few years, a type of cancer drug called an IDO inhibitor was all the rage, a promising path to expanding the reach of immunotherapy.

Case Study 52

Case Study Study Training Acquisition 52

Xconomy

JUNE 9, 2017

A key part of this strategy are call centers (GreatCall CEO David Inns insists on calling them “caring centers”), where trained agents. The company, founded in 2006, began by selling easy-to-use “Jitterbug” mobile phones, and expanded its offerings to include a variety of welfare and safety-related services.

Equity 45

Equity Training Mobile Networking 45

Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Officials at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX ), who were planning a move from Cambridge, MA, into a new $800 million headquarters with views of Boston Harbor, should have seen something much different in those Pharmasset data: An oncoming freight train.

Startup 40

Startup Research Sales Organization 40

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We do lots of training, integration, and comarketing, and they're our number one customer--we want to make sure their 155 people are absolutely successful, to help us drive market growth.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us. I took the night train that night to London to try and hold investors firm. Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308