One of the corollaries of hiring a new CEO is that sometimes the corporate mountain moves instead of the guy at the top, which may be a factor in an announcement today by Utah’s Sorenson Media. The Salt Lake City-based developer of video compression and encoding software said today Sorenson has opened a new San Diego … Continue reading “Sorenson’s New CEO Establishes San Diego ‘Hub’”
Author: Juha-Pekka Tikka
UK Pharma Visualization Startup Chooses San Diego Region for Expansion
Just a few weeks after we reported Torrey Path’s arrival in La Jolla, another bioinformatics company is setting up shop San Diego. Dotmatics, a scientific visualization and bioinformatics software developer founded in the United Kingdom, has opened an office near San Diego as part of an expansion that targets the U.S. life sciences market. “Now … Continue reading “UK Pharma Visualization Startup Chooses San Diego Region for Expansion”
The First Lady of Wireless Built Mobile Startup to Send Message of Simplicity
When Arlene Harris co-founded GreatCall Inc. in Del Mar, CA, she had a clear idea about the type of mobile phone service she wanted to provide. “The mobile phone is made to serve us, not to enslave us,” she told me recently. “I don’t want my phone to tell me what to do! We are … Continue reading “The First Lady of Wireless Built Mobile Startup to Send Message of Simplicity”
Stem Cell Board Elects Roth Vice-Chair
Duane Roth, CEO of San Diego’s Connect (and an Xconomist), was elected today as vice-chair of the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency. He was nominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who cited Roth’s 30-year experience in San Diego’s biotech industry and at Connect, which promotes innovative technologies by … Continue reading “Stem Cell Board Elects Roth Vice-Chair”
Survey Ranks San Diego No. 1 in Remote Working
A survey released today by Microsoft (NASDAQ: [[ticker:MSFT]]) says San Diego is the best midsize city in the United States for remote working. The nationwide survey commissioned by the Redmond, WA, software giant found that U.S. employers generally support remote-working programs, although just 39.4 percent have a policy that details how their employees can work … Continue reading “Survey Ranks San Diego No. 1 in Remote Working”
Leap Wireless Adds Philadelphia Service
San Diego-based Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: [[ticker:LEAP]]) today is launching its Cricket unlimited wireless service in the greater Philadelphia area. That’s the second major market the low-cost wireless provider has entered since January, when Cricket began service in Chicago. The company, which announced its move yesterday, is now forecasting 5.3 million subscribers this year. At the … Continue reading “Leap Wireless Adds Philadelphia Service”
Nokia Mapping a Future for Location-Based Mobile Services and Applications
In Finland I am a reporter for Ilta-Sanomat, Helsinki’s second-largest newspaper. I write about Finland’s Nokia a lot, so I may have a different perspective on Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chipset maker. For us Finns, Nokia is a larger-than-life, close-to-home success story. We speak the same strange language and it’s our only global giant. In … Continue reading “Nokia Mapping a Future for Location-Based Mobile Services and Applications”
Teams Collect Prizes Like Moon Rocks in Regional Robotics Contest
Most of the teams that gathered at the San Diego Sports Arena last week came from the American Southwest—from places like Flagstaff, AZ, and El Centro, CA. One team came all the way from Pennsylvania. Another came from Brazil. But these teams didn’t come to the arena to play hockey, football, or some other sport. … Continue reading “Teams Collect Prizes Like Moon Rocks in Regional Robotics Contest”
The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of: The Story of Erwise and Four Finns Who Showed the Way to the Web Browser
Three quiet and unknown Finnish engineers in their late thirties, Kim Nyberg, Kari Sydänmaanlakka, and Teemu Rantanen, have spent their working careers at the engineering software company Tekla in Finland. Their clients have used the software they created to model several well-known buildings, including Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, New York’s … Continue reading “The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of: The Story of Erwise and Four Finns Who Showed the Way to the Web Browser”