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. The company also sells gadgets, such as mobile devices with large screens and big buttons, wearables that can work with those devices, and emergency alert products.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2017

San Antonio —WiseWear, a San Antonio-based wearable technology maker, has created a new product that uses a low-power wireless network to help users stay connected to an emergency alert services around the globe. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2017

In this age of “just in time manufacturing,” entire factories might need to halt production if the right parts aren’t delivered, potentially costing thousands of dollars in delays. That’s a problem that Austin-based Riskpulse says its data service can help resolve.

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Xconomy

MARCH 27, 2019

But to Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth , a Seattle-based startup that announced $11 million in new funding Wednesday to help fuel its continued growth, prescribing digital products and services is where the healthcare industry is headed. “We Xealth is among the startups riding a wave of funding for.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Mountain View, CA-based Diffbot gleans unstructured data scattered across websites, ads, blog posts, videos, and other public online assets to create a knowledge repository that can be mined by companies for their specific purposes. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Only a dummy would do it again. Thanks, and good luck!

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. Entrepreneurs at work on first day of Canopy San Diego accelerator program.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Aha makes a program that helps project managers develop new product roadmaps, which are used by others in the customer’s business, from sales.

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Xconomy

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Mobile gifting service. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The military may want a product that is serviceable and can be used immediately to help an injured soldier in the field, while the private market needs. That’s the case when it comes to both treating patients and working with others to develop new healthcare tools. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. Petnet’s products are manufactured in China.

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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 ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. There's all great places to be, and they all provide great services. For me, I was born and raised in Hawaii, but have lived in San Diego in the past.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Those images translate into data that TerrAvion analyzes and also shares with its distribution partners, who have developed farm management software geared to particular products with their own growing quirks, such as grapes. Morris says drones are good tools for certain agricultural tasks, like inspections and videography.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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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. We’ve made the transition from product development, and turned the corner toward commercialization.”.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. That forms one end of the company’s spectrum of startup activities.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If Wednesday’s hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Alex Azar is any indication, reining in drug prices and insurance premiums are the policy priorities that will guide Congress’s interaction with the department under a new leader. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to her blog , the Material Mix software features a disruptive technology that commoditizes the trade of reusable materials within the current waste collection industry. Material Mix connects businesses with excess, undervalued reusable byproducts; and those who seek materials for use as an input in their own production process.

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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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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. Who would be the typical customer for this service?

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2018

Athena Club, a subscription program for feminine hygiene products, is the latest entrant into the direct-to-women e-commerce space and announced today that it has raised $3.6 Co-founder Maria Markina says her New York-based startup gives women the convenience of a subscription service but at lower prices compared to other similar services.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. StemCells of Newark, CA, said this week it would wind down operations after a Phase 2 trial of its lead product, a spinal cord injury therapy, didn’t do enough to help patients. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2 and Europe later this year.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Our service wasn’t directly affected by this incident, but the nature and scope of this attack is tremendously worrisome. In a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, the perpetrator overwhelms a target company by flooding their service with so much phony traffic that their service is unable to serve authentic requests.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Bentonville, AR, retailer announced Thursday it has acquired Cornershop, an on-demand online service that delivers products from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty shops in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million. “We Walmart is taking the e-commerce delivery business south of the border.

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Xconomy

APRIL 2, 2018

says Drew Giovannoli, product marketing manager at Bazaarvoice, an Austin, TX-based maker of e-commerce software. Personalized service once meant a salesperson remembered customers’ favorite colors or would call to let them know about upcoming sales. But dialing shoppers one at a time is.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor.

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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. A key part of this strategy are call centers (GreatCall CEO David Inns insists on calling them “caring centers”), where trained agents.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The first is drug importation—bringing in cheaper products from. The plan is short on detail, however, and it also says nothing about two major arguments in the drug price debate that Trump has endorsed on more than one occasion, starting with his presidential campaign. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Cloud services. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. blog comments powered by Disqus. Enterprise.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

With multiple products on the market and many more coming, it’s easy to think that cancer immunotherapy has arrived. In reality, however, we’ve only just begun to figure out how to coax the immune system into killing cancer.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Schwartz is now the Washington, DC-based managing director of cybersecurity services for law firm Venable, where his duties include consulting on policy issues for companies like Cybereason. We do expect it would be a major national security agenda item.”.

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Xconomy

MAY 8, 2017

Beginning with eHeaven, an e-commerce website that he founded in 2000 as a student at San Diego’s Point Loma Nazarene University, Carder has ridden a series of enormous waves as consumers moved online to shop, search for home loans, and find businesses in their neighborhoods.

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