founding CEO Steve Tomlin last month. The San Diego startup has been licensing its technology, which provides a Web platform for online information and entertainment. Chumby also recently raised another $3 million in venture financing, bringing its venture capital total to $26 million.
—Mellmo, the Del Mar, CA, startup that provides mobile graphics for interpreting business intelligence data, launched Roambi Blink, which can access business data directly from a data warehouse rather than connecting to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or SAP BusinessObjects document.
—Kyriba, which is based in Paris and San Diego, said it has raised $10.6 million for its Web-based software, which enables companies to better control their daily cash management tasks.
—Atlanta-based Equifax acquired San Diego-based Anakam, which specializes in identity security and management software. Financial terms were not disclosed.
—Qualcomm’s Don Jones, who oversees the San Diego company’s wireless health initiatives, helped to kick off the Wireless Health 2010 conference last week by noting that wireless networks have become the world’s most pervasive utility—more pervasive than water or electric networks. The four-day meeting in La Jolla featured talks by Chris Toumazou, director of the Imperial College Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Segway inventor Dean Kamen, and Dr. Eric Topol, who directs the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla.
—San Diego’s West Wireless Health Institute announced that the winner of its $10,000 “mobile health app” developer challenge is Alan Viars, of Baltimore, MD-based Videntity, which has developed an open source platform that enables people to share real-time health data securely over their social networks.
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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