—CommNexus, the non-profit group for San Diego’s tech industry, held an open house for the new downtown EvoNexus incubator, which is intended to spur a proliferation of tech startups in the downtown area. While a baker’s dozen of startups are settling into the EvoNexus operation at 101 W. Broadway, companies like Take Lessons, Stay Classy, FanBox, and Climber.com already have established offices in the downtown area.
—San Diego’s AirHop Communications and Pennsylvania-based InterDigital (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IDCC]]) said they’ve been collaborating to combine AirHop’s technology for self-organizing networks with InterDigital’s bandwidth management technology. InterDigital set up an outpost in San Diego last year.
—SAIC founder J. Robert Beyster gave the University of Michigan’s engineering school $15 million, a gift that includes at least $9 million to endow a fellowship program that will fund up to 10 engineering doctoral students each year. In a statement from his alma mater last week, Beyster said he wants his gift to Michigan to help keep the United States at the forefront of global innovation and competitiveness.
—San Diego-based Extrabux, a comparison shopping Website that integrates discounts from cash back and online coupons, said today it has generated more than $1 million in cash back for its members. In a statement from the company, Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobb said the recent holiday shopping season accounted for a quarter of the total.
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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