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• Japan’s KDDI Deploying Next-Generation LTE Wireless, a Positive For Qualcomm

  Japan’s second-largest cellular operator, KDDI, is adopting the next-generation, Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, wireless standard founded on San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) technology. KDDI is deploying LTE equpment from Hitachi... Read more »

• FDA Gives Fast-Track Status to Anadys’ Hepatitis C Drug Candidate

  Shares of San Diego’s Anadys Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ANDS) gave up some of the boost they got Tuesday after the company announced the Food and Drug Administration put the biotech’s drug... Read more »

• Running Near Empty, Overland Storage May Be a Sign of The Times

  I thought it was unusual when San Diego’s Overland Storage said Friday it had closed on a $9 million receivable financing agreement. All it means is that a finance company has... Read more »

• Appeals Court Slams Qualcomm, Clarifies Law on Disclosing Patents to Standards Groups

  A federal appellate court agreed that San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) should be punished for hiding its work from industry groups developing a new video technology standard. But the three-judge... Read more »

• Pure Gets Global Marketing Partner for Germ-Killing Compound

  San Diego’s Pure Bioscience, (NASDAQ: PURE) a 25-employee company, has gained a global partner for its silver-based compound that acts as a germ-killing alternative to chlorine and other chemicals.

  Pure... Read more »

• San Diego’s SeaBotix Making Robots For Deep Blue See

  When hurricanes Gustav and Ike blew through the Gulf of Mexico in late August and September, most offshore oil and gas production platforms were evacuated and shut down. That’s bad news... Read more »

• Awarepoint Nabs $13.3M, Kratos Fuses With Digital Fusion, Pocket Communications Financing Signals Challenge for Leap Wireless, & More San Diego Deals News

  As people gathered from near and far to celebrate Thanksgiving, a couple of startups with San Diego connections had more than one reason to give thanks, with deals closing on a... Read more »

• San Diego’s Overland Storage Arranges Accounts Receivables Financing

  San Diego’s Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL) says it has closed a two-year deal with Marquette Commercial Finance that will help Overland’s liquidity by enabling it to finance as much as $9 million of... Read more »

• Never Mind That Bailout: Venture Funding for Auto Innovation Accelerates As Startups Race to Leave Detroit in its Own Dust

  Tomorrow, Detroit’s automakers are expected to give Congress a detailed plan that explains exactly how they intend to use $25 billion in taxpayer funding to engineer a turnaround—no doubt refueling... Read more »

• Novocell CEO Moves to Nonprofit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

  The New York-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has named San Diego-based Novocell CEO Alan Lewis as its new chief executive. Lewis plans to step down from Novocell, a stem cell company... Read more »

• Plunging Oil Prices Require Alternative Fuel Startups to Take a Long View

  Historic high prices for petroleum over the past decade have stoked a surge of interest in alternative fuels and renewable energy, and dozens of startups have been formed to develop new technologies... Read more »

• High Tower Software Suddenly Closes Its Gates

  Aliso Viejo’s High Tower Software shut down unexpectedly Monday, SoCal Tech News reported. The venture-backed developer of network security systems saw its sales suddenly deflate in the economic downturn and... Read more »

• Pocket Communications May Pose Challenge to Leap Wireless’ Low-Cost Service

  A startup flat-rate wireless provider out of Texas may have San Diego’s Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP) in its sites.

  Pocket Communications, a no-frills wireless service provider in San Antonio, announced... Read more »

• Human Tissue Startup ‘Putting the Band Together Again’

  San Diego’s Advanced Tissue Sciences tried for 14 years to develop living-tissue patches for healing burns, wounds and chronic sores. But the business went into bankruptcy liquidation in late 2002, a... Read more »

• Kratos Adds Another Defense Company in Growth-by-Acquistion Strategy

  Eric DeMarco, the CEO of San Diego’s Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, (NASDAQ:KTOS) is showing he learned the lessons of rapid growth during his years at former San Diego... Read more »

• To Save Cash, Vical Cuts 29 Jobs and Closes Facility

  San Diego vaccine developer Vical (NASDAQ: VICL has joined the roster of small biotechs that have been forced to cut costs to conserve cash.

  The microcap biotech says it’s laying off... Read more »

• The Bourne Innovation: UC Researchers Launch a YouTube for Scientists

  As an editor at a growing online resource called the Public Library of Science, UC San Diego Professor Philip Bourne is in an ideal position to see the disruptive changes... Read more »

• San Diego Snags Annual Conference on All Things Medical and Healthcare-Related

  San Diego, which ranks among the premier regions in the country for innovations in the life sciences, has landed a conference to match. After a five-year hiatus, TEDMED is making a comeback, and the... Read more »

• What Would the British Tabloids Say? Qualcomm Unveils Deal With Victoria’s Secret

  Did San Diego’s Qualcomm score a huge coup for its MediaFlo mobile television service yesterday by arranging broadcast rights to the 2008 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on Dec. 3?

  That was... Read more »

• Arkeia Software Names Bill Evans CEO

  San Diego’s Arkeia Software, a data protection software developer, has named two executives, including former Gateway executive Bill Evans as CEO. Evans was previously CEO of Parascale, a cloud storage startup... Read more »