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AUGUST 20, 2019

Digital mortgage lenders, for example, are having a field day, pulling in millions from investors who see opportunities to make money by speeding up the historically tedious process of getting a home loan. One such lender, Better.com, raised a $160 million Series C financing round Monday.

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APRIL 30, 2018

for example, complaints flooded into city offices earlier this year about the proliferation of “dockless” bikes cluttering sidewalks, handicap parking, and other public spaces. In San Francisco , grousing about the widely available scooters has spurred a social media backlash over “scooter-gedden,” with hashtags like #scootersbehavingbadly.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 26, 2018

Genomatica, a San Diego industrial biotech, has spent the past 12 years or more working to take the petroleum part out of the petrochemical industry. In 2008, for example, Genomatica showed it had bio-engineered E.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

For example, advertisers will have to unmask their identities and reveal who’s funding their ads, Facebook civic engagement team member Samidh Chakrabarti wrote in a blog post. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. As an example of advanced AI technology, it’s not particularly sexy or glamorous. began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). But now there is an exceptional example. His e-mail responses to my questions have been edited for readability.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

We’ll get to see an example play out in tests for a coronavirus infection treatment. Making changes in the midst of the study was a no-no. In recent years, regulators have showed openness to clinical trial designs intended to make drug testing more efficient.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

Synthorx, the San Diego synthetic biology startup that expanded the number of DNA base pairs with two synthetic nucleotides, said today it has raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by RA Capital Management, the Boston life sciences hedge fund. But many protein therapeutics have limitations that stall their advance.

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JULY 12, 2016

— 5D Robotics , founded in 2009 in Carlsbad, CA, (about 30 miles north of San Diego), has developed a device that integrates GPS, inertial guidance, optical positioning, and other technologies. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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JULY 16, 2019

Such tests can, for example, detect an extra copy of chromosome 21, which causes Down syndrome. The new firm, Cradle Genomics, is seeking to commercialize improved non-invasive prenatal tests, which analyze blood from a pregnant person to determine whether a fetus will be born with an atypical genetic makeup.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. What the St. Mike Kijewski.

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JUNE 30, 2016

“Sure, we’d like to see more drugs available for patients,” said Scott Lippman, director of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. Cancer experts around the country stress the need to balance speed and scientific rigor. The FDA has consolidated cancer regulation before.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday. Louis-based RespondWell.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Here’s a recent example. While lung cancer remains by far the leading cause of cancer death, immunotherapy now offers patients with advanced disease—Stage 4 cancer that has spread to other parts of the body—at least the chance to live longer than previously thought possible. In one study , 16 percent of 129 patients receiving an.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Late on Wednesday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) announced it has started free two-hour delivery of products from Whole Foods Market, the most significant example of the e-commerce giant using technology at the Austin, TX-based grocery chain since it purchased Whole Foods last year for $13.7

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

FriendFeed is a great example of a successful aggregator. You recently moved the headquarters here from Hawaii, can you talk about the decision to move to San Diego? For me, I was born and raised in Hawaii, but have lived in San Diego in the past. There's all great places to be, and they all provide great services.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

A number of strategies have been deployed in an attempt to solve this problem—internships, code schools, and industry-led STEM education initiatives, for example—but a Seattle-based apprenticeship program called. Bureau of Labor Statistics , more than 1.3 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In a presentation a few months ago at the firm’s annual a16z Summit , Pande argued that many aspects of biology (biochemical pathways, for example) have become so big, complicated, and messy that understanding the system is beyond what a human being can comprehend. But that’s been changing with the help of machines.

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MARCH 23, 2017

Morgan conference, for example, a group of 100 life science executives and others pledged to follow a list of gender diversity “best practices.” It’s been more than a year since an infamous party with hired models in cocktail dresses captured the biotech community’s attention at the 2016 J.P. Morgan conference.

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APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My For example we have a theme we call human computer interaction, a theme we call Glue – which is a software layer that glues things together on the internet.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Since then, the San Diego company has built a thriving business as a contract research organization (CRO) that tests experimental drug compounds on bio-printed liver tissue. Each pea-sized sample in a 24-well tray functions (for a week or so) much like a liver in the human body, with cell-to-cell interactions occurring in a 3-D matrix.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Prescribing a software application—one that helps a patient manage diabetes, for example—may sound futuristic to some people. Doctors prescribe all sorts of things for their patients, like drugs, medical procedures, and changes to diet and exercise regimen.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people. Artificial intelligence innovation has become part of our everyday lives—retailers use it to tailor the product recommendations they make; biotech companies hope it can create customized medicine.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. It also supports blogs.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. If all goes well, the first participants could sign up in November. “We’re curious to know whether we’ll be deluged or have to work harder to get the word out,” said Collins.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats. The 24/7 service operates.

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JULY 14, 2017

Take PDUFA, for example. Government and industry are rife with awkward acronyms. First passed in 1992, the Prescription Drug User Fee Act allows the FDA to collect fees from biopharmaceutical companies when they apply for drug approval; those funds are designated for the regulator’s drug evaluation work.

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JUNE 9, 2017

But not entirely: For example, after months of people asking where the heck art thou , Novartis dropped partial. James Comey might have had a wee bit to do with that, as well.) Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, for example, credits commentator Vin Scully for inventing the term to describe the soaring home runs that Wally Moon hit out of the old Los Angeles Coliseum. As expressions go, “moonshot” has recently been gaining a lot of popularity in the media vernacular. But it’s a matter of debate.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. none that feel like the blogging, free commenting, or even anything like Geocities.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. For example, coders use modular concepts that are then implemented in specific code: sometimes directly copied from earlier code, sometimes written differently. There may be vocals, guitars, bass, drums, etc.

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JULY 21, 2016

Since then, Zingle has evolved into a platform that aggregates message apps, including Facebook Messenger, Twitter direct messaging, SMS (text messaging), and in-app-chat (for branded apps), in a single user interface, enabling a hotel front desk, for example, to respond to guest requests.

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JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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