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San Diego-based diabetes drug developer Metabasis Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MBRX) laid off 35 of its 125 employees in November, and another 38 in January. Those cutbacks amounted to 28 percent and... Read more »
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San Diego-based mobile social networking firm Intercasting has been acquired by Redwood City, CA-based push mobility firm Good Technology. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Intercasting’s Anthem platform is... Read more »
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Vista, CA-based vision correction company Ophthonix has closed a $25.9 million “Series AA” financing round. According to a press release the company’s current investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Enterprise Partners,... Read more »
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A battle for control of Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN) that began last year will come to a final showdown tomorrow at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Challenging Amylin’s leadership in... Read more »
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San Diego-based Pure Bioscience (NASDAQ: PURE) says it has raised up to $3 million by selling its stock and warrants to institutional investors in a direct offering. The net proceeds... Read more »
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“Healthcare is such a mess,” sighs Graham Barnes, the CEO of San Diego-based Concerro. “It was supposed to be recession-proof. It wasn’t. But we can save them a lot of... Read more »
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San Diego-based ID Analytics is launching a free online test that measures the vulnerability of individual consumers to identity theft. The test, called My ID Score, makes use of the... Read more »
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San Diego-based healthcare administration technology provider Benchmark Revenue Management said today it has raised additional capital in what it called a Series A funding round that was led by David Barach... Read more »
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San Diego’s Altair Therapeutics today named former Forward Ventures partner Joel Martin as president and CEO. Martin, who left the San Diego life sciences VC firm in October, was previously... Read more »
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San Diego-based Anaphore said today it has raised $13 million in a second closing of its Series A preferred stock financing, bringing the round to a total of $38 million. Anaphore,... Read more »
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San Diego-based data backup and recovery firm BakBone has acquired Broomfield, CO-based ColdSpark, a provider of enterprise email solutions. According to a press release, BakBone will pay $15.9 million for... Read more »
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San Diego’s cloud storage provider Nirvanix has raised eyebrows by claiming to be 200 percent faster than the great storage pioneer, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. Cloud storage is a current hot... Read more »
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“How many of us have lost a file sometimes?” BlackBall CEO Bob Brown’s first question to his audience is a killer. Hasn’t everyone lost or missed a file in their computer?... Read more »
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Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN) co-founder and original CEO Howard Greene is urging shareholders to vote for Carl Icahn’s or Eastbourne Capital Management’s proposed slate of directors, the Associated Press is... Read more »
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Two years ago, Dennis Mudd summoned his team of former Internet music executives and started Slacker, an online music service that offers personalized radio stations. The big idea was to... Read more »
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In a letter to shareholders today, San Diego’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALMN) urges them to vote for the company’s slate of directors on a blue proxy card. Amylin’s annual meeting... Read more »
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At a time when Internet video is shifting increasingly to high-resolution images and towards professional-quality production, Sorenson Media is going through a transition of its own. The private online video codec... Read more »
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San Diego-based Ardea Biosciences (NASDAQ: RDEA) says it has started a corporate restructuring that will reduce its workforce by 47 percent. The company says in their Q1 news release that... Read more »
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San Diego’s Vical (NASDAQ: VICL) said today it has the necessary genetic sequence and plans to produce a prototype vaccine for the H1N1 influenza, aka Swine Flu, “within the next... Read more »
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Joining in the latest wave of funding innovation, San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) today launched a new international business plan competition called the QPrize.
In a short announcement, the... Read more »
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