its Sorenson 360 online video platform, already have been optimized for Apple’s iPad.
— In another corner of Las Vegas, MeLLmo of Del Mar, CA, announced the launch of Roambi ES3, an improved version of its enterprise server and its business-intelligence systems software which converts data into dazzling graphic displays for mobile devices. This is the product that generates MeLLmo’s revenue.
—With health IT and bioinformatics blossoming in San Diego, Denise talked with Paul A. Rejto, a physical and theoretical chemist who now works for Pfizer in San Diego as director of computational biology in oncology research. He said the Pfizer Oncology Research Unit is using computational biology to identify potential targets for cancer drugs and to identify which patients would respond best to specific cancer drugs.
— VC firms invested $5.9 billion in 731 deals nationwide during the first quarter, according to the CB Insights Venture Capital Activity Report, a survey prepared by the New York firm previously known as ChubbyBrain. By coincidence, a search for recent fund-raising among San Diego-based technology companies found that TweetPhoto has raised $2.6 million in a Series A round. Sotera Wireless, a heart-monitoring startup previously known as Triage Wireless, also raised $10.7 million.
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.
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