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• Awarepoint Raises $10M to Accelerate Its Sensor Network for Hospitals

  JAFCO Ventures of Palo Alto, CA, has stepped in as lead investor in a $10 million round announced today by San Diego’s Awarepoint, which provides wireless sensor systems to help hospitals... Read more »

• Enrollment Begins at Founder Institute After Inaugural Class Completes Training

  School’s out for the Founder Institute’s inaugural class in San Diego, which started with 22 students in November and last week graduated 13 entrepreneurs who are moving forward to develop 12... Read more »

• Qualcomm Ventures Leads Funding for Visage Mobile, Venture Deal Terms Favor Investors (Still), Leap Wireless Forms Joint Venture, & More San Diego BizTech News

  It was a light week in San Diego for tech news, perhaps balancing the blizzard of life sciences news that blanketed our region. Good thing that’s the only kind of blizzard... Read more »

• FDA Refuses to Accept Adventrx Pharma’s New Drug Application

  Adventrx Pharmaceuticals (NYSE Amex: ANX), the San Diego biotech that sprang back to life in January with a new drug application, says in a statement today that it has received... Read more »

• AFraxis CEO Outlines Biotech’s Success With Ultra-Lean Pre-Clinical R&D in Russia

  AFraxis, a mostly stealthy San Diego biotech, is getting ready to come out with a big announcement in the next week or so, but CEO Jay Lichter previewed some key parts... Read more »

• The X Lists Debut: San Diego’s Online Reference Library for Innovators and Entrepreneurs

  If Xconomy had a storefront in downtown San Diego instead of a Web address, it might be easier for readers to see what we’ve got under construction, because people could peer... Read more »

• Synthetic Genomics Recruits Illumina Exec

  Synthetic Genomics, the San Diego biofuels developer, today named a top executive from San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), the maker of genetic sequencing tools, as its chief operating officer. Joel... Read more »

• Leap Wireless Combines its Cricket Service With Pocket Communications in South Texas

  Call it an example of newfound pragmatism among the flat-rate wireless service providers, which are coming under growing pressure to consolidate.

  San Diego’s Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) announced today that... Read more »

• ProActa Raises $1.1M

  ProActa, which is developing an anti-cancer drug transplanted from New Zealand, has raised $1.1 million in debt and securities, according to a recent regulatory filing. The biotech, which has... Read more »

• Qualcomm Ventures Leads New Investment Round in Revived Visage Mobile

  San Diego’s Qualcomm Ventures is showing its confidence in Visage Mobile’s back-from-the-dead strategy by leading a new investment round in the San Francisco-based company.

  Tim Weingarten, who stepped in as... Read more »

• NIH Chief Stresses Economic Impact of Federal Biomedical Funding

  Cancer and certain types of mental illness are diseases that appear ripe for research breakthroughs, according to Francis Collins, who just marked his sixth month as director of the National Institutes... Read more »

• Survey Finds Venture Deal Terms Improving, But Still Below Historical Levels

  Even though venture capital funding plunged dramatically in 2009, it was nevertheless encouraging when the VC surveys that came out in January showed an uptick in venture deals during the fourth... Read more »

• Sony Electronics Outlines its 3D Strategy, Fallbrook Files For IPO, Electronics Recycler EcoATM Raises Venture Round, & More San Diego BizTech News

  It was a great week for innovation in San Diego, with Fallbrook Technologies filing for an IPO and Sony Electronics previewing its 3D strategy (along with some new products) after opening... Read more »

• Hollis-Eden Now Harbor BioSciences

  San Diego drug developer Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals says it has changed its name to Harbor BioSciences, nearly a year after the company fired Richard Hollis, the biotech’s namesake founder and CEO, for... Read more »

• Renewable Energy Investor Says Wind Industry Ripe for Innovation

  You could say I blew into the wind power event that Cleantech San Diego organized here last week. The canapés were gone by the time I arrived, but the show was... Read more »

• San Diego-Based Sony Electronics Ready to Talk About 3D And Other Innovations

  Sony Electronics usually maintains a low corporate profile at its North American headquarters, even though it ranks among San Diego’s biggest private employers—with roughly 2,000 workers here. That seemed especially true... Read more »

• Commenting on: How EcoATM Became San Diego’s Hottest Startup Deal, If I Say So Myself

  Bruce said: FWIW in terms of background explanation, I approached Mark Bowles about writing an account about ecoATM in December, after ecoATM... Read more »

• Fallbrook Technologies Files for $50M IPO

  San Diego’s Fallbrook Technologies, a cleantech venture developing a proprietary transmission that offers improved efficiency for a variety of vehicles, intends to raise $50 million through an IPO, according to a... Read more »

• Qualcomm Previews Flo-Enabled Content

  Qualcomm, the San Diego wireless technologies giant, says it is previewing a variety of new applications at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that enable certain features of its Flo-TV... Read more »

• San Diego Gets $4.95M to Boost Life Sciences Employment

  A $4.95 million grant from the federal stimulus package will be used to boost education, training, and placement services for people who are seeking jobs in San Diego’s life sciences and... Read more »