Internet Deals Boost Venture Funding, ViaSat Delays Launch of Internet Satellite, Intuit Unveils Mobile Tax App, & More San Diego BizTech News

on the over-the-counter bulletin board as SBSW.BB, won’t change for the time being.

—SWIGZ.com Pro Racing of Aliso Viejo, CA, said its all-electric superbike raced against conventional twin-cylinder, gasoline-powered race bikes in two races at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA—and finished 2nd and 3rd.

—San Diego-based ESET, which develops anti-virus and Internet security software, named Andrew Lee as CEO of the company’s North America operations. Lee takes over as CEO from Anton Zajac, who continues as president. Darin Andersen also will continue as ESET’s chief operating officer in the San Diego office. Lee, who was ESET’s chief research officer from 2004 to 2008, served most recently as chief technology officer for K7 Computing.

—Mountain View, CA-based Intuit (NASDAQ: [[ticker:INTU]]), which operates a consumer tax software development center in San Diego, has developed a mobile application that enables individuals to prepare and file their annual tax returns from an iPhone or Android mobile device. SnapTax allows taxpayers with simple returns to snap a photo of their W-2 with their mobile phones and then automatically enters the information into their tax return.

—The Association for Computing Machinery decided to hold its annual KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Datamining) conference in San Diego from Aug. 21-24 at the downtown Manchester Grand Hyatt. “Several of our colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, and area analytics businesses were instrumental in our choice,” said Chid Apte, the conference chair, in a statement.

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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.