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• After Re-Engineering Itself, Verdezyne Sets Course to Develop Biofuels and “Green” Industrial Chemicals

  After Carlsbad, CA-based Verdezyne disclosed last month that it plans to raise more than $15 million in venture funding, I arranged to sit down with Damien Perriman, the company’s vice president... Read more »

• Futuristic Carmaker Aptera Disputes Internal Rift, Acknowledges Cutbacks

  Aptera, the sleek carmaker backed by Google and Idealabs, didn’t respond to my inquiry earlier this week about reports of an internal split in which founders Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony... Read more »

• Big Energy Collaborations Seen to Jump-Start Emerging Biofuels Technologies

  As startups developing next-generation biofuels emerge in San Diego, Boston, and elsewhere, a business model for rapidly expanding to commercial-scale operations already can be found in the biotech industry, experts said... Read more »

• Sony Ericsson Closing SD Operation

  Sony Ericsson says it plans to close its operations in San Diego as part of a global consolidation that the cell phone handset maker announced today. The London-based joint venture between... Read more »

• San Diego’s Cottage Industry of Marine Technology Innovation

  Long before San Diego was known as a hub of telecommunications innovation or for its proliferation of biotech companies, it was a leading center for the development of deep underwater technologies.... Read more »

• NextImage Medical Raises $5M

  San Diego’s NextImage Medical, Inc., which has developed a Web-based system for scheduling and managing diagnostic imaging services, says it has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round... Read more »

• Kleiner Perkins’ Ellen Pao on Opportunities in Greentech Investing

  I had an opportunity to sit down recently (along with several other journalists) for an informal chat with Ellen Pao, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member... Read more »

• Rift Reported Between Founders and Board at Futuristic Carmaker Aptera

  Paul Wilbur, a Detroit auto industry veteran who was named CEO of Carlsbad, CA-based Aptera 14 months ago, gave no indication of internal turmoil at the futuristic car’s headquarters when he... Read more »

• Global Analytics Raises $10M Amid Possible Deal

  San Diego’s Global Analytics Holdings says it has raised $10 million of a targeted $14 million round that consists of equity investments, options, and rights to securities, according to a recent... Read more »

• Qualcomm Takes on Network Bottlenecks, Google Buys Gizmo5, a Cluster of Analytics Startups Emerges, & More San Diego BizTech News

  San Diego serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is going to have to find something else to do now that Gizmo5, the VoIP (voice-over-Internet-protocol) company he founded in 2003, has become part of... Read more »

• San Diego Serves as a Hotbed for Analytics Tech Cluster—at Least Up to a Point

  When Tom Clancy introduced a panel discussion yesterday at a forum on analytics software, the founder of San Diego’s Tao Venture Partners said the forum was “founded four years ago by... Read more »

• Cyntellect Raises $15.5M as it Expands Biotech Instrument Business

  San Diego-based Cyntellect , which makes work stations used by biotechs for cell analysis, purification, and processing, has raised $15.5 million so far in a secondary round that aims to raise... Read more »

• Israeli Startup Wins Inaugural QPrize

  San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) says Panoramic Power, a wireless sensor startup based in Kidron, Israel, is the winner of the first QPrize, the incentive prize competition launched earlier this... Read more »

• SD Firm Gets $19.4M for Washington Wind Farm

  The San Diego-based Cannon Power Group says it has received $19.4 million in federal renewable energy grants to help fund construction of a 400-megawatt wind farm in Klickitat County, WA, about... Read more »

• Qualcomm’s Lauer Outlines Efforts to Ease Network Bottlenecks at Wireless Conference

  [Corrected 11/11/09, 3:15 pm. See below] Qualcomm chief operating officer, Len Lauer, says the San Diego wireless chipmaking giant is working across a broad front of technology development to... Read more »

• Life Technologies Acquiring BioTrove

  Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE), the Carlsbad, CA-based provider of biotech instruments and lab supplies, says it has agreed to acquire Woburn, MA-based BioTrove, which has developed a high throughput gene... Read more »

• San Diego’s Platformic Expands Its Web Development Platform for Broadcasters

  Mark Underhill says he was doing Web design and applications development for Clear Channel Communications when the San Antonio, TX-based media company announced plans to sell 448 of its 1,150 radio... Read more »

• San Diego’s Gizmo5 Reportedly Acquired by Google

  San Diego’s Gizmo5, which was rumored to be a Skype acquisition target for $50 million about three weeks ago, is now reported to have been sold—except the buyer is identified as... Read more »

• Good Things in Threes: Trius Therapeutics Files for IPO to Fund Phase 3 Clinical Trials, Marks San Diego’s Third IPO Filing

  San Diego’s Trius Therapeutics, a venture-backed biotech developing a new antibiotic for treating acute and life-threatening bacterial infections, submitted a regulatory filing Friday to raise as much as $86 million... Read more »

• San Diego’s PaxVax Developing Oral Tablet Vaccine, Looks to Raise More Cash With Support of Seattle’s Ignition Capital

  PaxVax, a San Diego startup backed by Seattle’s Ignition Capital, has raised $2 million of a planned $6 million investment round, according to a document filed Friday with the Securities... Read more »