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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs (..)

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Venture Group’s Krenn Sees Improving VC Deals for SD Tech Startups

Xconomy

Call him an optimist if you must, but San Diego Venture Group president Mike Krenn says venture financings for San Diego’s early stage tech startups are on a tear. “I A breakout of regional deal flow so far this year indicates that venture activity in San Diego. That is an insane data point.”

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

socalTECH

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.