socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2019

San Diego-based renewable energy developer EDF Renewables North America said Thursday that it has acquired another wind project, this time in the state of Nebraska. The company purchased the wind development from a partnership owned by Aksamit Resource Management, LLC and York Capital Management.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2016

As a service to San Diego startup companies, CONNECT is partnering with Stradling, a full-service business law firm with broad resources to support the specific needs of emerging growth companies. Friday, July 15, 2016 -- Office Hours @ CONNECT with Stradling.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

San Diego-based OneRof Energy , the provider of solar lease financing and solar installation services for the residential market, has raised $2M in a debt financing. The company said the funding came from New Resource Bank.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2016

San Diego-based Cubic Corporation says it has named Darryl Albertson as its new Chief Diversity Officer. Albertson has been at the company since September of 2013, serving as Vice President of Corporate Human Resources. Albertson has previously served at CareFusion, Cardinal Health, and Pfizer. military and other agencies.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Workpop, in the same announcement, also said it has launched its second city, in San Diego; the company also plans to expand in Texas later this year. Workpop's hiring tools are aimed at the service sector, and includes not only recruiting tools but onboarding, human resources, payroll, and other tools. 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. 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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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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Xconomy

JUNE 16, 2016

In San Diego, the complaints often focus on the relative scarcity of venture capital and hometown VC firms. So when the San Diego Venture Group recruited Mark Suster of Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures to give the keynote talk Tuesday night for Startup Week San Diego, more than 800 people filled a downtown auditorium.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2009

San Diego-based The Active Network , which operates a network of web sites and related products for community service and sports organizations, said today that it has launched a new program focused on "eco-friendly" practices in endurance racing. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. We had an idea to recapture what we saw was a huge pool of unlimited corporate resources. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Similarly, the firm is using a Y-Combinator/TechStars model to startups, and covers Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. Specifically targeted at clean techonlogy firms, the group has more of a traditional incubator program, offering up office space for 6-8 companies, along with support, resources, and mentorship.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2009

Active Network , the San Diego-based operator of an online community for sports and recreational activities, revealed Tuesday that Active.com has been named the technology provider for iHoops. Active said it will also utilize various online resources and tools in an attempt to enhance the site's visitor engagement. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

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

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. How big was the team in San Diego?

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. PRTechConnect leverages the resources of a full-service LA-based PR firm to distribute your news directly to a customized, targeted list of reporters and editors in print, broadcast and online media. We put the "Service" back into Internet Service Provider.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

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.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In 2016, we saw cyber attacks increasingly shift from external breaches of confidential data to internal disruption of data and services, as attackers used distributed denial of service (DDoS) or encryption to hold businesses hostage. Attackers continue to focus more on exploiting users than technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The aim, according to the private college’s press release, is to provide “mentoring, advising and access to resources for up to 15 student- and community-run companies with a philanthropic twist.” ” The incubator had two clients at launch, and plans to offer its services to clients for a length of five years.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. More importantly, if you think you want to go down the non-VC route Ryan would be a great resource to contact. __. Mobile gifting service. Total raised: $5.3mm Read more: TechCrunch. __. They sponsor TWiVC. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The firm has also received partner services from Polsinelli Shughart, Jones and Watkins, Stone Carlie, GoBrandGo, and Elasticity. Born in Oregon, she worked in sustainable resource management in California’s public sector and was in the tough Construction and Demolition recovery. But her success did not come to her in a dream.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

Professional athletes in the past (and present) always had the money and resources to measure and gather every bit of information to keep them at pristine shape, but all an average person had was a weight scale and a mirror to help determine if they were heading in the right or wrong direction.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. That's a big part of it.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Limited financial resources make it challenging for these companies to invest in sophisticated security mechanisms or full-fledged IT departments – a fact that hackers and cyber attackers use to their full advantage. These statistics belie the common notion that cybercriminals attack only big businesses.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Jason Howe: What we do at Awarepoint is, at the 10,000 foot level, is RTLS - Real Time Location Services. We deliver our services directly to the acute care area.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

We are not Sweden—nor do we need to be—but we do need to invest in closing the income gap through education and training that produces new customers and workers for entrepreneurs and the array of services and amenities a middle-class lifestyle affords. Need more convincing?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

These decades are when you have the knowledge and experience, not to mention the contacts and resources, to make a new business successful. In light of their ease with technology, they are in a prime position to spot opportunities for products and services that will improve people’s lives.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Important discoveries are also being made regularly at the University of Washington (UW) and these are being translated into new businesses and products and services. Seattle is also at the forefront of using innovation to improve global health through such local institutions as the Gates Foundation, PATH, UW Medicine, and the Hutch.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. The exciting part of this, is it's a true enabler of making these resources more broadly utilized.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Our wide-ranging conversation covered the progression of MIT’s entrepreneurship curriculum and campus resources , the rise of the Boston-Cambridge area as a high-tech industry powerhouse, the prospects for an MIT venture fund , the challenges for university tech transfer offices, the roots of today’s startup culture, and more.

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