online investor relations services for publicly traded companies throughout North America. StockTwits plans to integrate its services with the Q4’s software as a service, which includes investor relations modules that help companies properly provide information and other services to investors and shareholders.
—A spokeswoman for JOT Automation told me the private electronics manufacturer based in Oulu, Finland, is moving its U.S. headquarters to San Diego. JOT Automation, with more than 350 employees worldwide, said it plans to specialize on the design and production of disposable diagnostic medical devices and handheld readers in San Diego. Stefan Adolfsson, who leads JOTs business in the Americas, will head the San Diego office and plans to add 10 workers here within the year.
—Solana Beach, CA-based Analog Analytics, which provides technology that enables established media companies to offer daily deal-type offerings, said it will offer travel deals through a new partnership with New York-based American Marketing Group’s Travelsavers Partner Services.
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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