Xconomy

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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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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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. MedCrypt is focused on preventing the sort of thing that happened to St.

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Xconomy

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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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— Swift Navigation , founded in 2012 and now based in San Francisco, is using real-time kinematic (RTK) technology to enhance the precision of satellite-based GPS positioning data. SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales.

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Xconomy

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

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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Both Sides of the Table

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 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S.

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socalTECH

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. What's your own background?

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Xconomy

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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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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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

FriendFeed is a great example of a successful aggregator. has done is give you easy access to a domain, for free, and given you enormously valuable software that you can use for free, and which allow you to use the services you've been part of, invested in developing identities on, and allows you to create and promote that identity in a.mp

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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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Xconomy

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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Xconomy

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The latest example is a new coalition formed by several security companies aimed at addressing data breaches. Such credentials enable access to an organization’s software systems for tasks like implementing updates or managing devices on the network.

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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. They're centrally managed, big iron, big servers, and dedicated client software.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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Xconomy

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France.

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Xconomy

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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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations. Editor’s note: this article is excerpted from a longer blog post , which continues with examples and further context. ].

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arterys feeds the gigabytes of MRI information into its Web-based software application, which takes advantage of the outside computing power now broadly available from the network of servers-for-hire we call “the cloud.” It’s the first example of where we’re going as a company,” Stahre says. “We We see this as the first of many.”.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Even though most services are usually not subject to sales tax, some states are now asserting that certain online services are taxable either as software, data processing, or information services, even if the type of service would not be taxable if delivered the old fashioned way – by people – rather than computing platforms.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, their poll this week showed Democratic presidental candidate Hillary Clinton regaining … Next Page » Reprints | Share: But that method was losing reliability due to lower response rates, as well as the movement toward mobile phones.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed.

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