shutting down its virtual worlds website last December. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
—San Diego-based Solera Holdings, which operates Audatex North America claims software for auto insurers and collision repair shops, is moving its headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Solera also named Renato Giger as CFO, replacing Dudley Mendenhall. Giger is among the company’s top executives who will be based at the new Texas headquarters. Solera Holdings was formed in 2006 by former Mitchell International president Tony Aquila in a $975 million deal to acquire the auto claims software division of Automatic Data Processing.
—Qualcomm (NASDAQ: [[ticker:QCOM]]) chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs said ensuring medical insurance reimbursement and getting new wireless devices approved by government regulators are two crucial barriers the wireless health sector must overcome. Jacobs talked about wireless health at a software developers conference in San Diego.
—MeLLmo, the Del Mar, CA, developer of Roambi mobile apps for business intelligence graphics, said last week it’s now supporting Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4. Roambi for iOS4 is available for iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 users.
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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