Bruce V. Bigelow
Bruce Bigelow joins Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
Recent posts
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It was clear that San Diego’s MediciNova (NASDAQ: MNOV) had a lot riding on the outcome of a mid-stage trial of the company’s lead drug candidate, bedoradrine sulfate. As I reported recently, MediciNova... Read more »
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A team developing analytic software that scores patients for the risk they pose to being readmitted within 30 days after being discharged from a hospital is the winner of the inaugural Janssen... Read more »
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Here’s a potpourri of San Diego tech news, large and small, fresh from the local fields of innovation.
—San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the world’s biggest manufacturer of wireless chipsets, said it... Read more »
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Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the San Diego wireless technology giant, says today it is joining forces with EvoNexus, the free tech incubator operated by the nonprofit industry group CommNexus.
The move adds... Read more »
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About 275 technologists and healthcare industry executives are gathering in downtown San Diego tomorrow as the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) convenes its Seventh Annual Convergence Summit at the Grand Hyatt.
“The overarching... Read more »
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Waiting for the biotech industry to advance new treatments for male pattern baldness (as well as female hair loss) might seem about as exciting as watching hair grow. But some people... Read more »
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We’re anticipating a lot of news out of a big cancer conference that begins next week in Chicago. Here is your head start.
—Cancer researchers have talked for decades about finding the silver bullet... Read more »
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What began as an effort by a couple of San Diego engineers to bring computer vision to the iPhone has resulted instead in “Skqueak,” a mobile app that enables users to sketch over... Read more »
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Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) plans to use its well-established model in technology licensing as it advances innovations in wireless charging of electric vehicles (EVs), smartphones, and other devices, according to Qualcomm’s... Read more »
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Verdezyne, the Carlsbad, CA-based company developing industrial biotechnology processes for making adipic acid and other sustainable chemicals and fuels, has raised more than $10.6 million, according to a recent regulatory filing.
A... Read more »
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Massachusetts’ Vertex and San Diego’s Celladon are advancing some promising gene therapy treatments. Here’s our roundup of life sciences news over the past week.
—San Diego’s Celladon, which is developing a gene... Read more »
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Carlsbad, CA-based BeyondTrust, a network security company focused on protecting public companies against attacks from within, says it has acquired eEye Digital Security, a Phoenix, AZ-based company that helps defend networks from external threats.... Read more »
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[Corrected 5/7/12, 5:10 pm. See below.] When Yuichi Iwaki started MediciNova in 2000, he says many mid-size pharmaceutical companies in Japan had concluded it was just too difficult to conduct... Read more »
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San Diego-based Celladon, which raised $43 million in February to advance development of a gene therapy treatment for heart disease, has extended the round with an additional $10 million, according to a ... Read more »
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Here’s a quick roundup of new from San Diego’s technology sector over the past week.
—In a move that has implications for San Diego’s tech community, the University of California named Pradeep Khosla, dean... Read more »
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San Diego-based Nirvanix, which provides cloud storage services, says today it has raised more than $25 million in a Series C round of venture funding led by Khosla Ventures. Existing investors Valhalla... Read more »
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Here’s our wrap-up of life sciences news over the past week, along with some life sciences data from the latest Connect Innovation Report.
—Bedford, MA-based Hologic (NASDAQ: HOLX) agreed to... Read more »
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Israel’s Allot Communications (NASDAQ: ALLT), which optimizes data traffic and performance for both fixed and mobile broadband networks, says it is acquiring San Diego-based Ortiva Wireless, which specializes in optimizing... Read more »
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Alas, poor Chumby! We knew him well.
The Internet-enabled device of infinite jest and excellent fancy is now the unfortunate subject of an asset sale supervised by a trustee—Insolvency Services Group of Beverly... Read more »
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San Diego’s EcoATM is ringing up $17 million in a Series B round of venture funding today to expand the operation of its automated kiosks, which recycle cell phones and other handheld electronic... Read more »
