Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

After signaling that it plans to operate drones via cellular technologies, San Diego-based Qualcomm says today it is working with AT&T to use commercial wireless networks for test flights beyond an operator’s visual line of sight. Qualcomm is hardly flying solo into this realm.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2017

ScoreStream, a San Diego area startup providing a crowdsourced social media platform for reporting high school sports scores, said Thursday it has agreed to distribute high school game scores under a new collaboration agreement with The Associated Press.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters. million and take five years, Sekeroglu said.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Echo Labs’ hybrid microscope. million in nine months. Echo Labs image).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

His San Leandro, CA-based company, TerrAvion , relies on a network of contract pilots to capture weekly shots of his customers’ vineyards, corn fields, and strawberry rows. In spite of the “drone hype” in recent years, he turned to a much more established technology to get his imaging sensors aloft: small planes.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

CrowdStrike , a Silicon Valley cybersecurity company that fends off hackers by patrolling the edge devices connected to a network, announced today it raised $200 million in a financing round that sets the company’s valuation at more than $3 billion. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

The year was 1972: three years after the first messages were firing across the US military-funded research network ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, but still more than a decade before the internet’s architects settled on rules for how information would be transmitted across the network. Computer scientists gathered at the.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2018

We asked people around the Xconomy network whether their personal patterns of technology usage changed much in response to something that happened in 2017, as part of our series of perspectives and predictions marking the start of a new year. Gilbert : “Voice computing is crossing the chasm and becoming a fixture of.

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Xconomy

JUNE 9, 2017

GreatCall operates a virtual telecommunications network that provides healthtech products and services for more than 800,000 older consumers throughout the United States.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the 10 years since David Inns joined San Diego-based GreatCall as CEO, he has seen a proliferation of innovative healthtech startups that are targeting baby boomers who are in or nearing retirement. conference held in San Francisco earlier this month.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Andersen created the program under the auspices of CyberTech , a membership organization he created to provide networking, resources, and programs focused on cybersecurity, Internet of Things, and related technologies.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 31, 2017

People are building mentoring networks. The San Francisco firm, which also issues reports and advocates for the growing sector at the intersection of health, data science, and mobile communication, says it surveyed more than 300 women for its annual gender diversity report. And there have been public pledges to do better.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

Thousands of these mostly small Internet providers connect customers’ homes through wireless networks that eventually link up to fiber-optic cables or other main Internet conduits further up the line. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2018

It’s a pretty tall order for a startup to build a consumer data storage service to rival services like Dropbox, combined with a social network. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2018

In a bid to differentiate itself from the crowd of cybersecurity companies offering network monitoring services, Carlsbad, CA-based Proficio said it has developed a risk-scoring system that assesses its customers’ network security controls. No one really knows where their blind spots are.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. Social networking. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

SurveyMonkey, which helps companies and individuals poll groups on a variety of issues, tapped into its network of online users to pose questions about the presidential race. By contrast, NBC News teamed up with Palo Alto, CA-based tech firm SurveyMonkey to conduct online polls.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The idea was to both help cities improve local services and spur the development of something that didn’t really exist at the time—a nationwide infrastructure of ultra high-speed networks providing Internet service at speeds of 1 gigabit/second. Since then, U.S.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

With its new funding, Seattle-based Convoy plans to continue expanding its network of customers and truckers to more U.S. With the online network covering more ground, it can offer more options. regions, CEO Dan Lewis says. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In another wave of account shutdowns, Facebook announced Thursday that it disabled more than 800 pages and accounts to prevent groups that disguised their identities from flooding its network with inauthentic content—some of it hyper-partisan political messages. presidential election.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. 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. So I did that kind of stuff.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. the world’s largest celeb endorsement network).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2019

Fort Worth, TX —Data analytics and visual search technologies are increasingly being used by law enforcement agencies, growth that has captured the attention of tech giant Motorola.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

AltspaceVR has created a virtual replica of NBC’s Democracy Plaza in New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, the backdrop for network anchors during the debates and on election night. But that method was losing reliability due to lower response rates, as well as the movement toward mobile phones.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

It’s a question that often circulates in the business press and on tech blogs. They need to be connected to entrepreneurial networks, mentors, and leaders to help them find their footing. What is the ideal age to start a company? The first group advocates for the 20s as the optimal time.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 6, 2018

As wildfires continued to burn across the length of California this month, Gov. Jerry Brown urged residents to stay on the alert and warned that the cost of fighting the climate-driven blazes will continue to strain future state budgets.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

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Xconomy

JUNE 12, 2019

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike delivered the kind of market debut this week that was an unfulfilled dream for the much-anticipated IPOs of Uber and Lyft earlier this year. Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD ) priced 18 million shares of common stock at $34 on Tuesday. Trading began at $63.50

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Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading.

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Xconomy

APRIL 24, 2018

Savari , whose technology is designed to create a shared communications web among cars, personal devices, and roadway signals, announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series B fundraising round.

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