Wichita, KS (a Koch Industries subsidiary), and Carlsbad, CA-based Life Technologies, (NASDAQ: [[ticker:LIFE]]). Jatropha development, though, may have to overcome some big challenges, such as water consumption and cost of cultivation. One of the best analyses of the deal I read was in Biofuels Digest.
—Independa, a San Diego healthcare technology startup founded last year, introduced its integrated Web services platform that enables seniors to remain at home while providing their relatives a way of monitoring their well being.
—Bump.com, a San Diego startup that has developed automated license plate recognition technology, also launched last week. The company is providing social media technology that enables users to send voice, text, and e-mail messages to motorists, based on their license plate numbers.
—San Diego’s Astute Networks, a 10-year-old venture-backed startup that has developed ruggedized blade storage systems for use by the military and commercial customers, received an undisclosed amount of funding from Palo Alto, CA-based Tallwood Capital.
—John Madrid, who was previously the chief information officer at Vericrest Financial, was named CEO at San Diego’s xplair Technology, a startup founded last year to provide web-based mortgage management portfolio services and support.
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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