Qualcomm Acquires Atheros, Sony Introduces Its Google TV, Memjet Spins Out Partnerships, & More San Diego BizTech News

by Google TV. As Mike Freeman reported in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Sony’s Google TV enables users to browse the full Web.

—San Diego-based Independa introduced its apps at CES. The two-year-old company is focused on developing innovations in IT and wireless technologies that will help the elderly continue to live independently in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes.

—Memjet, the San Diego high-speed print technology company, also timed some announcements to coincide with CES. Memjet said it has a new partnership with Lenovo, which will introduce the world’s fastest color office printing technology in China. Memjet announced similar deals for India with WeP Peripherals and in Taiwan with Kpowerscience. Memjet hasn’t announced a partner for the U.S., but it says the printer will be sold here this year as well.

—DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, recently signed a $1.7 million contract with San Diego ultracapacitor maker Maxwell Technologies to develop a more efficient energy source for the U.S. military’s portable radios. Maxwell is leading a team that includes the U.S. Navy and the University of Massachusetts in an initial one-year project that could become an $8 million program intended to develop a lighter and longer-lasting energy supply for field radios and other portable electronic field equipment.

—Initial public offerings and acquisitions surged toward the end of 2010, suggesting a recovery in such “liquidity events” from the capital crisis of 2008, according to a report from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.

—I profiled HowRandom, which co-founders Jon Cook and Jason Humphries created as an online forum that automatically-and randomly-pairs college students so they can chat one-on-one anonymously.

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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.