Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

San Diego’s life sciences companies didn’t tap their brakes much as December chugged along. This week—for many, the last full work week before a holiday break—has been peppered with financings and deals news.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The growing epidemic of the fatty liver disease known as NASH, which has no FDA-approved treatment, has led to a frenzied race among drug companies. This week, one company, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, solidified its lead. But how much will being first to the finish line mean when all is said and done?

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APRIL 14, 2011

Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

The flow of biotech news is particularly heavy today, and for good reason. Morgan Healthcare Conference, one of the biggest gatherings for the biopharmaceutical industry, kicked off today in San Francisco, and many companies, whether they’re speaking at the event or not, use this time to get their news out. The annual J.P.

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Xconomy

JULY 22, 2016

The top news in biotech this week centers around one big job opening: the head seat at Biogen, now that George Scangos has announced plans to leave the company. But there’s plenty more to dig through as well, from a shakeup at Zafgen to a few new high profile startups and a newly public gene therapy company.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The rising death toll from opioids has prompted policymakers to try various ways to take on the problem. President Trump’s opioid commission released its final report this week, calling for expansion of drug courts, better physician training, and penalties for insurers that don’t cover treatment.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As national politics dominates the news in the final days of the decade, we at Xconomy are wrapping up the year with some big moves by the FDA, including an approval of the first drug OK’d reduce heart risk in patients with high triglycerides who are already taking statins.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. We call it storytelling media.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Rockwell Automation is investing $1 billion in PTC, as the two companies team up to advance their vision of software-driven factories and industrial operations. The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2018

An unnamed source told the news service that the president said on the call the price hikes threw a wrench in his administration’s plans to tackle drug prices. Such changes are routine for many companies, but Pfizer took an unusual step this week by rolling back scheduled price increases on 40 of its drugs. In May, Trump and.

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Xconomy

JUNE 1, 2018

Among other news, expect a post-mortem analysis of a once-promising immunotherapy combination that included so-called IDO inhibitors, which were at the top of the cancer combo hopefuls list just a short time ago. Many ASCO attendees will zero in on potential cancer drug combinations.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2018

The biggest news this week was in oncology, hands down. Merck showed that its immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda) might become a common option for many patients newly diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, but the bigger picture is that the field is moving fast.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2017

Senators returned to their districts, where local news offered blistering headlines about the potential impact of the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. The Fourth of July was this week, but members of Congress didn’t need to crane their necks skyward to see fireworks.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 26, 2018

We’ve got more gene therapy coverage, plus news about big M&A—perhaps the first big splashes from incoming. One of the latest exhibits in the debate is an $850,000 gene therapy to treat a rare, inherited form of vision loss. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Just as many M&A rumors flame out as lead to deals, of course, but the news was enough to give Biogen’s stock price a big bump, and ignite chatter about what a sale of one of biotech’s heavyweights would mean, particularly for the Boston area. —Meanwhile, scientists from San Diego-based Synthetic Genomics and the J.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2017

With President Trump holed up in New Jersey, rattling his saber at Kim Jong-un and Mitch McConnell and ignoring his own commission’s advice on the opioid crisis, there was still life sciences news from the nation’s capital.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 18, 2017

pharmaceutical company was in the news this week, but for a change not because of the cost of drugs. The CEO of a major U.S. Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier (pictured) was the first of what quickly became a line of CEOs to exit President Trump’s manufacturing council, leading to its dissolution altogether.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 billion, 2,559 deals), signaling perhaps a period of digestion given how much had been invested during the 2014-2015 window.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. . —The U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

“This is the right time for a new leader to take the reins and lead Biogen through its next stage of development, and I look forward to returning to the West coast to take on one more set of activities and spend more time with my family.”.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

The discussion came to a boil earlier this year after a small New York investment bank hired scantily-clad women to attend its cocktail party at the J.P. An advisory board of women is meant to hold the investment bank accountable. Morgan conference in January.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Here’s what we know: There’s news to round up. —A month after Cambridge, MA-based Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: MACK ) restructured and its CEO resigned , Reuters reported that the company has hired investment bankers to explore a possible sale. Let’s get to it. TOP STORIES.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Five years ago, in November 2011, a company from Princeton, NJ, called Pharmasset shared news that would have an impact on millions of people around the world with hepatitis C. Its experimental drug PSI-7977 had quickly cleared the virus from 40 patients , with minimal side effects, and they had stayed infection-free.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Let’s start with more on eteplirsen, and round up the rest of the week’s biggest news. The first concrete step is $600 million to establish a “biohub” in San Francisco that will bring together researchers from Stanford University, and the University of California campuses in San Francisco and Berkeley.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 11, 2016

In a survey published this summer by digital health investment firm Rock Health, respondents were generally positive about sharing their health records and genetic data. Those concerns are shared by the public. But they did not view tech companies as trustworthy stewards. ” Verily’s role has since shifted, however.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

You’ve made it to Friday. Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Financial News. Developments Blog. MSN Money Investing. Downtown San Diego Condos. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools. New York City Apartments. The latest news and analysis delivered to your in-box. The latest news and analysis delivered to your in-box. MarketWatch.

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