Motorola Mobility Stays Put, RadiSys Acquires Continuous Computing, Watchwords From Qualcomm’s Town Hall Meeting, & More San Diego BizTech News

access to some 101 million user accounts on the PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online Entertainment in mid-April, according to a letter that Sony delivered to Congress last week. Stolen customer data included names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and birthdates, but Sony now says stolen credit card information was encrypted.

—A streaming video of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden was “almost certainly” carried on a mobile broadband system developed for the U.S. military by Carlsbad, CA-based ViaSat, according to ZDNet UK editor Rupert Goodwins. ViaSat delivered a militarized, secured version of its technology to the U.S. Special Operations Command in 2008.

—A quarterly report from The Software Equity Group, a San Diego based investment banking and consulting firm, says the first three months of 2011 is the sixth consecutive quarter that the median valuation of public software companies in the index has been at or above two times 12 months revenue. The Software Equity Group also counted 394 software buyouts and mergers during the first quarter, with the cumulative value of all deals totaling $8.3 billion.

—Xconomy has a new Facebook fan page, and you can check it out here. We’ve made it more personal, and we’re including photos from events we’ve organized from coast to coast.

—The California Energy Commission awarded $2 million to UC San Diego to accelerate R&D and demonstrate the feasibility of using a variety of new plant-based biofuels as alternatives or to replace existing transportation fuels.

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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.