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Walmart Unveils “Intelligent Food” System to Keep Produce Fresh

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Now, the Arkansas-based giant says it has filed two patents on technology that can digitize the current inspection process for perishable goods. Food spoilage can cost big retailers like Walmart billions in losses.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. What happened there?

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

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Merck also saw some expected fruits of its 2014 big-ticket acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals wither away this week, as the Supreme Court wouldn’t reverse a decision that shaved years off the patent life of the top-selling antibiotic daptomyicin (Cubicin). billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. Kanaan Jemili: Garry Winnick had the idea a few years ago, when he saw the shift happening from traditional video to digital video.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Rami Rostami: One of the things about the new crowdfunding phenomenon, is that everyone is raising money, validating their ideas, and maybe raising $500,00, or $50,000, or $5 million. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? Why not Los Angeles?

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. Briefly, we see your first product is for the Muni market - what''s the idea behind that product?

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Interview with Dipanshu Sharma, Kadonk

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This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. One of the big things for us, was to see the ideas that we were giving Nokia and see if they could work. Sharma is also one of the founders of V-Enable.

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