socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has made investments in four companies working on 5G technology and products. According to Qualcomm Ventures, it made strategic investments in Celona , Cellwize , Azion and Pensando. Size of the investments were note disclosed.

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MARCH 27, 2012

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , the developer of video encoding and decoding software, reported today that mobile Internet gateway firm Flash Networks has licensed its video decoder. Financial details of the win were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego, like a lot of other places that host similar events, has been billed as a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship. But while Startup Week San Diego has always collaborated with UP Global, San Diego entrepreneur and Startup Week organizer Austin Neudecker said, “We’ve always been an independent entity.”.

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MAY 22, 2012

San Diego-based Active Network , the provider of sports and activity registration services and software, said today that it has launched a suite of software aimed at enterprise event management. Active Network said its mobile software is aimed at everything from annual conferences to trade shows.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Six San Diego business risk-takers have been inducted into the pantheon of EY Entrepreneurs of the Year, joining over 10,000 people around the world who have been honored over the last 30 years by the multinational professional services firm. — Financial Services: Renovate America co-founders JP McNeill and Nick Fergis.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

San Diego-based Qualcomm is one of the backers in a startup which is developing technology to create a network of peer-to-peer, wireless devices, to help improve access for phones in poor coverage areas. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 12, 2009

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless is behind this week's launch of Virgin Mobile USA's nationwide 3G wireless Internet service, providing the hardware behind the new service. The hardware will be sold through Best Buy. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

San Diego-based Inseego says it has donated a number of its 4G LTE Mi-Fi mobile hotspots to aid disaster relief, to the Northern California VOAD network, in order to provide communications during the power outages and wildfires across the state.

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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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San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

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. Minnesota-based Best Buy (NYSE: BBY.

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San Diego Screening Equity Mobile 68

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Irvine-based location-based services (LBS) firm Networks in Motion said this week that it has hired on a new Vice President of Engineering at the firm. Networks In Motion said that M. Fathi Hakam has joined the firm from Kyocera Wireless, in San Diego. He has also served at Motorola. READ MORE>>

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Paul, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, the ProPublica Local Reporting Network funds and jointly publishes year-long investigative projects with 23 local news organizations across the U.S.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware.

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Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

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APRIL 23, 2012

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless , the manufacturer of wireless modems and broadband wireless data cards and products, said this morning that it has launched two of its products with a Puerto Rico carrier. Open Mobile is a provider of prepaid wireless services in Puerto Rico.

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San Diego Mobile Networking Product 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm confirmed Tuesday evening that it is considering shutting down its FLO TV, mobile television service, after reports that the firm is planning to shut off the service. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm has named the finalists in its second annual QPrize Venture Investment Competition, the firm's global venture capital competition for investment dollars.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced this morning that it has agreed to sell a block of its 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T, for $1.925 billion. The spectrum was previously as as part of Qualcomm's FLO TV subsidiary, which provided mobile television services. Qualcomm is planning to shut down its FLO TV services in March.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? We build products and services tied to mobile carriers.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

San Diego-based FLO TV , the subsidiary of Qualcomm which operates the FLO TV mobile TV service, said it has named Alice Kim to Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development Thursday. Tags: executive mobile television qualcomm.

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Develop Development San Diego Mobile 133

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Verizon Wireless is getting set to launch its 4G LTE service in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego this weekend, saying this week it will allow consumers to signup for its 4G service on Sunday, December 4th. The new 4G service will be supported through the LG VL600 and Pantech UML290, 4G LTE.

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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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

San Diego-based Qualcomm has inked a deal with a number of firms to integrate satellite communications into its chipsets, the firm said Monday, allowing its mobile baseband chips to connect to satellite networks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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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

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Scott Chisolm: Actually, the organization started as a charitable pub crawl, for the cancer society here in San Diego.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. That''s the vision.

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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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San Diego Startup Orange County Artificial Inteligence 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

Metropolitan areas have become target territories for the wireless Internet service providers, or WISPs, that for a long time have been the only options for rural residents whose neighborhoods aren’t reached by giant telecom companies such as Comcast and AT&T.

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Networking Services Customer Custom 79

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. The company is now pitching its services to cattle ranchers, whose rangeland can be much more vast than a grower’s irrigated fields.

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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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Equity Training Mobile Networking 45

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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Networking Customer Custom Software 51

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Are you launching a mobile application? When Evan Rifkin of.App/Ads launched a new ad network for iPhone (and soon to be other devices) applications I knew he would have a very strong offering out of the box. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. He’s a star.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? On the server side, we have a gateway to integrate with social networking partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

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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Organization Ideas Networking Help 85

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based goFlow is hoping to make that inforamtion as easy as checking out an app, tapping into a crowdsourced network of outdoor sports enthusiasts. We recently launched booking experiences and services in L.A. Roni Eschel: We are building out the social network now. What is goFlow all about?

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