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• DHS Funds Chemical Sensors for Cell Phones, MaxLinear Files for IPO, EcoDog Wins GadgetFest, & More San Diego BizTech News

  It was a busy week for local technology news.

  —Two teams from San Diego and a third from Northern California demonstrated their development of advanced chemical sensor prototypes that are tiny... Read more »

• Wireless Chip Designer MaxLinear Files for IPO

  MaxLinear, a fabless RF chipmaker based in Carlsbad, CA, filed a registration statement today for an initial public stock offering, marking only the second IPO in the San Diego area since... Read more »

• SpectraScience Raises $4.3M

  SpectraScience, the San Diego medical device maker, has raised more than $4.3 million through a private placement that combines preferred shares and warrants, according to a regulatory filing today. As I... Read more »

• A Cleantech Startup Looks to Raise $1.2M for the Greening of Hospitality Industry

  Dave Paton and Dave Moody tell me they founded EESG, a San Diego cleantech startup also known as Energy Efficiency Systems Group, last year in anticipation that soaring energy prices would... Read more »

• GreatCall Paid With Stock for MobiWatch

  A regulatory filing made last month by GreatCall, the San Diego-based parent of Jitterbug, offers some insight into the value of Jitterbug’s acquisition of Waltham, MA-based MobiWatch. Jitterbug announced the deal... Read more »

• GadgetFest Crowd Names EcoDog Best in Show

  The moderators of San Diego’s 9th Annual GadgetFest kept saying during Tuesday night’s showcase for new technology products that past winners have gone on to even greater glory and success. That... Read more »

• Amylin Forms Global Alliance in Obesity Drug Development; TEDMED’s Show Will Go On, Sequenom Sued for Civil Fraud, & More San Diego Biotech News

  TEDMED had Martha, Goldie, and other celebrity speakers, but San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals broke this week’s big news when it signed up a big Japanese partner to develop its line of... Read more »

• Keeping Details to a Minimum, San Diego’s Jitterbug Announces Acquisition of MobiWatch of Waltham, MA

  San Diego-based Jitterbug, the simple-to-use wireless phone and services provider, says today it has acquired MobiWatch, a startup in Waltham, MA, developing mobile personal emergency response services. Terms of the... Read more »

• An Entrepreneur’s Tale: Diego Borrego and the Twists and Turns Behind Networkfleet

  To a large extent, the story of San Diego-based Networkfleet is also an intriguing tale about co-founder Diego Borrego. The privately held company, which currently has more than 100 employees, is... Read more »

• Arkeia Acquires Kadena Systems

  San Diego’s Arkeia Software, which specializes in affordable network backup software, says today it has acquired Kadena Systems, a Santa Clara, CA-based developer of data de-duplication technologies. Financial terms were not... Read more »

• New San Diego Incubator Adds Three More Startups on Opening Day

  EvoNexus, San Diego’s free high-tech incubator, announced that it has enrolled three more startup companies during ceremonies yesterday that officially marked the opening of its new facility.

  CommNexus, the... Read more »

• ProQuo, Which Raised $15M in Venture Capital, Quietly Shut Down—Founder Calls It “Truly A Painful Experience”

  I met recently with Bob Nascenzi, the software industry executive who stepped in last May as the CEO of ProQuo, the San Diego startup that was created to help consumers control... Read more »

• Nascenzi Steps Into ExtraBux

  San Diego software industry executive Bob Nascenzi has joined ExtraBux a just-launched San Diego retailing website that combines cash back and rebate offers with comparison shopping capabilities. Nascenzi tells me he’s... Read more »

• Homeland Security Backs Cell Phone Sensors to “Crowdsource” Detection of Deadly Chemicals

  [Updated at 4:45 pm 11/2/09 to clarify size of NASA Ames sensing device] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has taken the wraps off a program to develop miniaturized... Read more »

• Qualcomm Creates Open-Source Subsidiary, SDG&E Gets $28M for Smart Grid & More San Diego BizTech News

  San Diego’s tech sector got some money and glory during a week that was overshadowed by news from two life science conferences: TEDMED and the annual Biocom Investor Conference. Get your... Read more »

• Lilly, With New Focus on Innovation (But Not Necessarily Inclusiveness), Opens San Diego Center for Biotech R&D

  “Ouch.” I’m sorry to say I didn’t write about the grand opening that drug giant Eli Lilly held in La Jolla yesterday for its new biotechnology center of excellence. I didn’t... Read more »

• Verdezyne Raises $3M in Venture Funding to Advance Industrial Biotechnology

  Carlsbad CA-based Verdezyne, which just disclosed a $1.7 million government grant, has raised nearly $3 million of a planned $15.2 million round of venture capital, according to a regulatory filing yesterday.... Read more »

• San Diego’s Eric Topol Outlines a Coming Wave of Innovation in Wireless Health

  Here at Xconomy, our focus on technology innovation is usually riveted on the interface where startups get built around new inventions and discoveries. But in a presentation last night at TEDMED,... Read more »

• TEDMED Sessions Seek the Patterns in Health Care and Life Sciences That Hold Ideas Together

  It may be that TEDMED founder Richard Saul Wurman is the Brett Favre of emcees, or perhaps he’s like Al Pacino in Godfather III, who proclaims in exasperation, “Just when I... Read more »

• UK’s Enigma Diagnostics to Establish U.S. Headquarters in San Diego

  Enigma Diagnostics, a UK-based medical diagnostics startup, plans to close its current U.S. office in San Francisco and open a new office in San Diego as its U.S. headquarters, according... Read more »