scheduled to make yesterday’s presentation in San Diego. But Saneii was instead at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. yesterday to announce a new partnering agreement the startup had just reached with LivHome, a Los Angeles-based provider of at-home care for the elderly. Under the deal, Independa is making its Web-based elderly care services and social engagement technology available to LivHome customers as “LivIndapenda.” (Saneii was participating in a press conference held in connection with the “What’s Next Boomer Business Summit.”) The CEO’s stand-in, chief medical officer Richard Della Penna, says the company was founded out of the conviction that “We can do better than ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.'”
Most Enticing Invitation to Follow-Up After the Presentation
Tap Hunter. This startup provides Web and mobile apps that help beer lovers find the best craft and micro-brewed beers that are being poured at bars and breweries across the U.S. CEO Melanie Gordon says Tap Hunter’s GPS-enabled app for iPhone and Android mobile phones provides search results on the all the specialty beers that are being served at the closest restaurants and taverns., “Stop by our table and share a beer with us at 3:15,” Gordon said. The program ended at 3 p.m., and within minutes the Tap Hunter booth was mobbed.
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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