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It looked like a small deal when San Diego-based data backup and recovery company BakBone Software acquired the assets of Santa Clara, CA-based Asempra Technologies earlier this week. BakBone shares trade over-the-counter, and the... Read more »
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Americans are more concerned about someone stealing their Social Security Number (SSN) than their wallet, laptop, or purse, according to a survey released today by Ipsos and San Diego-based ID Analytics. Three... Read more »
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San Diego’s NextWave Wireless (NASDAQ: WAVE) said today its Chairman, CEO, and President Allen Salmasi “has transferred the day-to-day operating role” of CEO and President to James Brailean, who heads... Read more »
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Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), the San Diego-based developer of genetic analysis systems, said today it has filed a patent infringement suit in federal court in Madison, WI, against Affymetrix (NASDAQ: AFFX),... Read more »
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Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN), which is engaged in a proxy fight, has submitted a new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for exenatide, its once weekly drug for type... Read more »
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San Diego’s James Sweeney is a big-time health-care innovator and entrepreneur. Although he’s relatively unknown to the general public, Sweeney has founded and created eight successful health-care companies—Caremark, CarePartners, CareGivers, Central Admixture... Read more »
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San Diego’s Avalon Ventures is among a handful of homegrown VC firms that remains an active investor in early stage companies in the region, even though overall venture funding is anemic right... Read more »
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San Diego-based TweetPhoto is taking social media a little bit further towards “Web 3.0″ time. TweetPhoto today launched a social-networking photo-sharing service, which uses Twitter and Facebook and automatically geo-tags photos sent from... Read more »
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In a filing with the SEC today, San Diego’s diabetes drug developer Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AMLN) says it has agreed to let affiliates of billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Eastbourne Capital Management... Read more »
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A suburban healthcare group began selling personal DNA testing kits in San Diego this week, enabling ordinary people to buy an over-the-counter test to determine their predispositon to genetic disease.
The Personal... Read more »
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Health officials say it’s crucial to uncover a flu outbreak early, and stories on Science magazine’s ScienceInsider blog and in the San Diego Union-Tribune reveal how technology developed in the San Diego... Read more »
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San Diego-based Ardea Biosciences (Nasdaq: RDEA) says it has reached a licensing and drug development agreement with German drug giant Bayer HealthCare for a class of small molecule cancer drugs known as... Read more »
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Phenomix, the privately held San Diego biotech that Luke profiled in February, has laid off 16 employees, according to a spokeswoman for the company.
I contacted Phenomix after Xconomy received a tip concerning... Read more »
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San Diego-based Ethos Environmental said today it’s filed for patent protection of its Ethos FR+ fuel additive. Ethos says its fuel additive gives motorists increased fuel mileage, and at least a 30... Read more »
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We saw the proxy battle for control of San Diego’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals heat up last week, amid signs that wireless technology giant Qualcomm is in peace talks to settle a wide-ranging patent... Read more »
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San Diego’s Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA) said in a regulatory filing today it’s laying off approximately 130 employees, or 31 percent of its U.S. workforce, over the next four weeks. Check Xconomy’s San... Read more »
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San Diego-based video coding technology company DivX and consumer electronics giant LG have announced LG’s new line of digital TVs are capable of playing DivX high-definition videos from a PC or the... Read more »
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San Diego’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which is embroiled in a proxy battle with billionaire investor Carl Icahn, disclosed today that settlement negotiations are being held. But the discussion could be summarized as, “Yes,... Read more »
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San Diego medical device company NuVasive (NASDAQ: NUVA) said today it has purchased Rockaway, NJ-based Cervitech in a in cash and stock deal that could be worth as much as... Read more »
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San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) CEO Jay Flatley told analysts and investors that some researchers “are beginning to wait a little while to do the next version of the genome-wide association... Read more »
