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DECEMBER 3, 2014

A new effort by San Diego-based Scripps Research Institute and IBM is seeking to tap into the collective power of crowdsoruced PCs and Android mobile devices, to help find a cure for Ebola. READ MORE>>. ebola research cure computing softlayer crowdsource processing supercomputer disease lifescience'

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MAY 8, 2018

San Diego-based Inseego , which develops mobile products for the enterprise and other markets, said on Monday afternoon that it has named Rick Harris as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Sales for the Americas. Inseego said Harris has more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise sales area. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. in funding.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

San Diego-based cloud storage company Nirvanix has officially shut down its service, saying in a posting on its website that it is actively winding down its business, and is scrambling to transfer data on the cloud storage service to other providers.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego. Series C funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), IBM--via its new "Watson Fund"--and Qualcomm Ventures, along with existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, InterWest Partners, Miramar Venture Partners and Okapi Venture Capital.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

San Diego-based cryptocurrency startup Ciphrex has added a new member to its board of advisors, the company said yesterday. Ciphrex said it has added Eliezer Lombrozo, formerly a systems design engineer at IBM, to its Board of Advisors.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , the developer of technology for tracking the driving performance in corporate fleets, said today that it has namd Choo Kim-Isgitt as its new VP of Marketing. She also has served at Websense and IBM.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

San Diego-based tag management software developer Tealium announced Tuesday that it has opened up a new office, in Japan, to expand the availability of the company's software in that country. Tealium also has launched a local language version of its products for the market. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

IBM’s planned $34 billion deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat is a hefty price to pay to give its cloud computing business a shot in the arm. In some ways, the biggest software acquisition of all time could be a yawner.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of a number of sports related registration and sports events management websites, said yesterday that it has named Kevin Biggs as its Executive Vice President of Global Technology Sales. Biggs joins the company from Blue Coat Systems, and also served at IBM.

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MAY 2, 2011

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the provider of cloud storage services, said this morning that it has appointed Karen Sigman as its new Vice President, OEM and Alliances. Sigman joins the firm from QLogic, and has also served at Hitachi Data Systems, DataDomain, and IBM.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , the developer of the Roambi business application for the iPhone and iPad, said this morning that it has integrated its software with Oracle's Business Intelligence (BI) suite. The Oracle support comes on top of existing support for SAP, IBM, and Microsoft products.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Join us November 16 when two huge names in supercomputing IBM's Watson and San Diego SuperComputer Center's Gordon will offer a close-up look at the future of big data analytics and text mining. Supercomputers and "the Cloud" are taking analytics and data mining to the next level. Its time to find your inner geek!

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JUNE 2, 2011

San Diego-based Entropic Communications , the developer of home networking semiconductors, said yesterday that it has named two new VPs. Morris has previously served at Freescale Semiconductor, McAfee, and IBM. Morris has previously served at Freescale Semiconductor, McAfee, and IBM. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , maker of the Roambi mobile business application for the iPhone, said this morning that it has raised an additional $10M in funding. Names of the investors were not disclosed. The firm said the new round of funding brings its total raised to $20M across three round of funding. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , the firm behind the Roambi mobile business application, said today that it has hired on Brad Freitag as the firm's Vice President of Sales. Freitag has previously worked at Oracle, IBM, and Hyperion Solutions, and was most recently at Host Analytics, where he was Vice President of Sales.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The firm said the research is a partnership of the firm along with UC San Diego research lab of Prof. Department of Defense, IBM, Intel, and others. Tanner's customers include NASA, JPL, Microsoft, the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

UC San Diego has named Todd Hylton, a veteran tech industry manager and expert in neural-based processing technology, as executive director of its new Contextual Robotics Institute. Hylton’s appointment comes less than two months after UC San Diego named Henrik Christensen as director of the robotics institute.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We’re convening in San Diego at the Illumina Theater at The Alexandria, and we’re calling it the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology. We’re gathering key leaders from. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In fact, I put myself through NYU Stern while working for companies like IBM, Prudential, and Merrill Lynch, and joined Goldman Sachs upon graduation. As a native New Yorker, it may not come as much of a surprise that growing up I wanted to work in finance.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

San Diego-based XIFIN , a publisher of hosted revenue cycle management software for diagnostic laboratories, reported Tuesday that it has added two members to its executive staff. Zaniboni was also CFO for Arcturus Bioscience and Sequenom, XIFIN noted, adding that Taylor worked at IBM as a strategy executive prior to Acclerys.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 30, 2017

When I last spoke to Sophie Vandebroek in December, it was for a kind of exit interview as she prepared to leave her longtime job as Xerox’s CTO and head of its worldwide research organization.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

San Diego-based Cymer, a manufacturer of laser light sources used for the semiconductor industry, disclosed Wednesday that the firm's CFO, Nancy J. Bowman has been at Cymer since May, and has also served at American Mold Guard, Applied Materials, Unisys, and IBM. Baker, has resigned. The company said it has appointed Paul B.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

These days, however, the term “smart city” is everywhere, pimped by tech giants like IBM, Google, and Cisco, and embraced by various mayors, city managers, and chief innovation officers from Silicon Valley to Rio to Dubai. Cities have been called a repository of possibilities.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

San Diego-based MindTouch, which develops open source wiki software, said Thursday that it has announced three new converters targeted at helping its users move from Mediawiki, Atlassian Confluence, and IBM Lotus Notes.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

San Diego-based Overland Storage has swapped out its CEO, saying earlier this week that it named board member Eric Kelly as its new CEO. Current President and CEO Vern LeForti will retain his title of President. in 2004, and the acquisition of Snap by Overland in June of 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2017

competitors Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, and Google banded together to form the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society , an industry-led attempt to get ahead of the many social, ethical, and economic issues presented by the advent of technology with increasingly human-like capabilities. Last fall, A.I.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

. —In other news from the moonshot day, Biden warned researchers in academia and industry that they would risk losing federal funding if they didn’t follow the law and report their clinical trial results to the public ClinicalTrials.gov database… IBM said it would deploy its Watson systems to help the U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM. I then spent a few years at IBM as their Chief Strategy Officer in their identity management area. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. That was a very successful exit for everyone involved.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Why is this happening?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

I joined them in New York as Global Chief Operating Officer of Neo @ Ogilvy, doing digital media for IBM, Cisco, Amex, and others. We literally did a road trip all the way from San Diego to Marin County, to figure out where we could live, and where it would be a good environment for our business.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

—IBM Watson Health and the Broad Institute have teamed up on a five-year, $50 million research project to study why tumors become resistant to cancer drugs. —The FDA lifted a partial clinical hold , meanwhile, on a planned cell therapy study from Philadelphia and U.K.-based based Adaptimmune (NASDAQ: ADAP ).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We’ve launched some high profile clients this year including Honolulu, San Diego, Abu Dhabi and dozens more worldwide. We’re now in live in 5 countries and have dozens of major partnerships including IBM, Microsoft, & Esri. In December we announced we closed $1.33 Public Speaking. What do you think?

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