provide analytics about marketing campaigns.
—Stretchr Stretchr offers an intelligent cloud data storage service that enables a new paradigm for software development by addressing key pain points in application development, and resulting in more reusable code, less coupling, and quicker product releases.
—Zenhavior The company is testing initial versions of a downloadable mobile app that could be used to monitor and analyze driver behavior for delivery companies and other fleet vehicle operators. Zenhavior’s technology would replace dashboard-mounted video recording devices that now cost hundreds of dollars to deploy.
—Intentive Communications Intentive Communiations applies the latest insights and developments in computational neuroscience and machine learning to problem solving.
—Raynforest A Web-based marketplace that makes it easier for companies to hire sports stars and other celebrities for brand marketing campaigns, and to measure the results. Raynforest describes itself as an Elance for athletes, speakers, writers, and other influencers.
—Polyceed Polyceed has been developing so-called “active smart materials” with proprietary technology that improves the performance, lowers the cost, and simplifies integration without requiring electrical power for control or embedded electrical or electronic circuits.
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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