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Xconomy Guide to Best Sessions at Startup Week San Diego

Xconomy

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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Illumina Sets HR VP

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San Diego-based Illumina appointed Paul Bianchi as its Senior Vice President of Human Resources this morning. Bianchi joins from Risk Management Solutions, and also had served at Strayer Consulting Services, PeopleSoft, Hands-On Mobile, Ask Jeeves, ProBusiness Services, NeXT Computer, and Apple.

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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros

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Paul, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. This could include coverage of things like local ordinances, school closings, shelter-in-place laws, number of cases and deaths, testing resources and more.

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Interview with Jonathan LaCour, Playzon

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How do you come up with a compelling, mobile videogame title? We thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind Jonathan's startup efforts and where he hopes his mobile gaming startup will go. Right now, we have developers in Belgium, Texas, New York, San Diego, Florida, and in the Bahamas. What is Playzon?

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Qualcomm Buys AMD's Handheld Business

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San Diego-based Qualcomm has acquired the remains of AMD's handheld business, including what the firm said were certain graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property, and resources. Tags: merger mobile acquisition semiconductor qualcomm. Qualcomm said the deal is worth $65M in cash. READ MORE>>.

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TerrAvion’s Eye in the Sky For Growers, And Now, Ranchers

Xconomy

Companies such as San Diego-based SlantRange are betting that drones, flying lower and slower, can deliver images at higher resolution than either planes or satellites. TerrAvion charges $6 an acre for 20 weekly overflights for irrigated crops in the Pacific Northwest—one of the regional subscription plans it offers.

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Under New Owners, Petco’s Digital Strategy Emerges in Petnet Deal

Xconomy

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. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion