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PacketVideo Sues Spotify

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San Diego-based PacketVideo , the former unit of Nextwave Wireless which was acquired by NTT DOCOMO, is suing hot online music streaming service Spotify , according to a lawsuit filed in the California Southern District Court in San Diego yesterday.

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Awarepoint Raises $14M More

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San Diego-based Awarepoint , which develops real-time, location systems used for tracking patents and assets in a healthcare environment, said today that it has raised $14M in an additional financing round. HHIF contributed $7.5M HHIF will add a representative to Awarepoint's board with the funding. READ MORE>>.

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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. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network.

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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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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). We are in Los Angeles and San Diego, and I go between the two cities. If you look at services like Twitter, there are a lot of users who don't post, but read a lot.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

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It makes sense for Indiana institutions to encourage innovation that helps the world, since then-Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana worked with then-Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to create the bipartisan Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, or Bayh-Dole Act, in 1980. The results?

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Interview with Avantika Shahi, Haus

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Avantika Shahi: I've been in real estate for about 10 years, but prior to that I used to run professional services for a global software company, which was later acquired by Adobe. We're hoping to expand in San Diego and San Francisco next. So how did you go from being an agent to this startup?

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