Quattrone Predicts VC Shrinkage, ViaSat CEO Says Bandwidth Was Key to Internet Satellite, UCSD Scientists Win Google Grant, & More San Diego BizTech News

Colorado-based WildBlue Communications. ViaSat CEO Mark Dankberg told me that WildBlue gives ViaSat a way to distribute the satellite’s projected 140 Gbps (gigabits per second) total throughput to 1.5 million Internet subscribers.

—San Diego’s Concerro, which provides software-as-a-service for hospital shift and emergency workforce management acquired RES-Q Healthcare Systems of Calabasas, CA, for an undisclosed amount. RES-Q provides software for healthcare management and scheduling.

—Google said it’s providing $100,000 to three UC San Diego computer scientists for their research on improving energy efficiency as part of $5.7 million the company is contributing through its Google Focused Awards Grants. Google also provided $1.35 million to the University of Washington for work on mobile data collection for public health and environmental monitoring.

—Mike Hall, the CEO of El Cajon, CA-based Borrego Solar, talked about the type of solar technology the company recommends for its projects in a Q&A with me. Hall, who joined the privately held solar installation design company in 2002, also discussed differences in dealing with utilities, regulators, and construction project inspectors in New England and California.

—A survey of bloggers who write about economics found that 59 percent view the U.S. economy as “mixed,” and 23 percent see the possibility of a double-dip recession, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO. About half of the survey respondents said that government budget deficits, interest rates, inflation, and poverty rates will all rise substantially over the next three years.

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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.