Back in March, I wrote a column arguing that smartphones, tablet computers, Internet TVs and other personal technologies are delivering an unexpected bonus. Rather than depreciating, the way most equipment does, these gadgets actually get more valuable over time thanks to the hundreds of new apps that debut every week, plus free upgrades for existing … Continue reading “Yes, Technology Is Taking Jobs Away, But Here’s How It Might Give Them Back”
Category: San Diego
OpenX Software Secures $20,015,645 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=80ebe21e-e0e8-4e4b-a763-849491709912&Preview=1 Date 5/27/2011 Company Name OpenX Software Mailing Address 20 E. Del Mar Blvd Pasadena, CA 91105 Company Description OpenX is the world’s leading independent provider of digital advertising technology that enables businesses to manage and maximize their ad revenue. OpenX products, including OpenX Enterprise and OpenX Market, provide a comprehensive revenue … Continue reading “OpenX Software Secures $20,015,645 New Funding Round”
Nestlé Acquires Prometheus, Trius Raises $30M in Private Placement, Canaan’s Bloch Discusses Advanced BioHealing Deal, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
We’ve been seeing some big life sciences deals in recent weeks, the latest being Nestlé’s acquisition of San Diego’s Prometheus Labs. Here’s our wrap-up of the past week. —Switzerland’s Nestlé Health Science agreed to acquire San Diego’s Prometheus Laboratories in what one analyst estimated as a $1.1 billion deal. The Nestlé subsidiary has been on … Continue reading “Nestlé Acquires Prometheus, Trius Raises $30M in Private Placement, Canaan’s Bloch Discusses Advanced BioHealing Deal, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
Amylin Gets TRO Against Lilly
A San Diego federal court granted a temporary restraining order sought by San Diego diabetes drug developer Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMLN]]) against Eli Lilly. Amylin sued Lilly a few week ago for violating their joint marketing agreement for exenatide. The court ordered Lilly to halt its plans to use the same sales force to sell … Continue reading “Amylin Gets TRO Against Lilly”
Ford Lists Top 25 EV Cities, Highlights Pacific Coast Corridor for Future EV Road Trips
With the average price of gasoline reaching almost $4 a gallon nationwide, it’s safe to say a lot of people are curious about the all-electric vehicles (EV) that many automakers have been showing off lately. Still, it’s hard to justify the $100,000-plus sticker price for a Tesla Roadster or the $33,000 price of a Nissan … Continue reading “Ford Lists Top 25 EV Cities, Highlights Pacific Coast Corridor for Future EV Road Trips”
Active Network Shares Begin Trading
Shares of the Active Network, the San Diego-based provider of online registration services for conferences, recreational licenses, sporting leagues and other events, gained more than a dollar in morning trading today, after the company priced its IPO yesterday at $15 a share. That was below the expected range of $16 to $18 a share, which … Continue reading “Active Network Shares Begin Trading”
San Diego’s Trius Therapeutics Creates Options for the Next Generation of Antibiotics
San Diego’s Trius Therapeutics, like Zogenix and Pacira Pharmaceuticals, was among the local IPOs that got caught in the jaws of the amazing life sciences valuation-shrinking machine of 2010. Trius initially filed its IPO in late 2009 to raise as much as $86 million by March 2010, so the company could price its shares in … Continue reading “San Diego’s Trius Therapeutics Creates Options for the Next Generation of Antibiotics”
The Answer My Friend: San Diego Wind Energy Symposium
San Diego has been identified as one of the premier locations in California for wind energy. CleanTech San Diego has organized a half-day symposium with community leaders and national experts to discuss the future of wind power and our local energy needs. Panelists will discuss a state and local perspective on formulating renewable energy policy … Continue reading “The Answer My Friend: San Diego Wind Energy Symposium”
En Route to IPO, San Diego’s Prometheus Labs Detours to Nestlé Buyout
[Updated 5/24/11 9:25 am. See below.] San Diego’s Prometheus Laboratories, a specialty pharma and diagnostics company in registration for an IPO, has instead agreed to a buyout offer from Nestlé Health Science, a new subsidiary of Switzerland’s Nestlé S.A. [Updated with estimated buyout range.] Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a statement … Continue reading “En Route to IPO, San Diego’s Prometheus Labs Detours to Nestlé Buyout”
Eqal Receives $649,994 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8e64c4a0-7212-4e5b-8b37-84e4b0c47e77&Preview=1 Date 5/24/2011 Company Name Eqal Mailing Address 201 Wilshire Blvd 2nd Floor Santa Monica, CA 90401 Company Description EQAL is the social entertainment company dedicated to redefining the way we interact with content and with each other. Merging technology with creative development and production expertise, we are leaders in the creation … Continue reading “Eqal Receives $649,994 New Funding Round”
CatchFree Secures $5,500,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9f13c976-7d16-4d98-a6f2-8be95016d30d&Preview=1 Date 5/24/2011 Company Name CatchFree Mailing Address 4000 Westerly Pl. Newport Beach, CA 92660 Company Description CatchFree is a community driven resource that makes it easy to discover and share the best free web apps for your specific needs and avoid those with hidden catches. Website http://www.catchfree.com Transaction Type Venture Equity … Continue reading “CatchFree Secures $5,500,000 New Funding”
Accelrys Buys Sweden’s Contur
San Diego-based Accelrys (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ACCL]]), which outlined its scientific Software-as-a-Service strategy for me just a couple months ago, says it has acquired privately-held Contur Software AB of Stockholm, Sweden, in a deal valued at $13.1 million. Accelrys says Contur provides Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software that enables scientific organizations to document their R&D. and to … Continue reading “Accelrys Buys Sweden’s Contur”
IPO Pipeline Pumps Up the Volume in First Quarter
A recent study of IPO filings by the Ernst & Young accounting firm shows that 47 companies filed for initial public offerings during the quarter that ended March 31, and a total of 125 companies are waiting to go public on U.S. markets. Of the 125 companies in the pipeline, 25 are based in California, … Continue reading “IPO Pipeline Pumps Up the Volume in First Quarter”
Tech Talent Shortage, One of this Year’s Major Storylines, Illustrated in National Study by Job-Search Site Dice
If you want another bit of evidence that the technology job market is really competitive, job-search site Dice is out with a new study that ranks states according to their estimated shortage of new tech workers. Xconomy locations, which align with the top innovation clusters nationally, are well represented atop the list for having the … Continue reading “Tech Talent Shortage, One of this Year’s Major Storylines, Illustrated in National Study by Job-Search Site Dice”
Qualcomm Identifies First GPS+Glonass Smartphone
Qualcomm chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs said earlier this month the San Diego wireless giant has developed technology that enables smartphones to use either GPS or Russia’s Glonass satellite location capabilities. Today, Qualcomm says the first GPS+Glonass-capable phone is the MTS 945, available from Russian mobile operator and retailer MTS. It’s an Android-based phone made … Continue reading “Qualcomm Identifies First GPS+Glonass Smartphone”
Vertex, On Deadline, Wins FDA Approval for Hepatitis C Drug
[Update: 12:03 pm ET, with pricing info] Vertex’s big day has arrived. The Cambridge, MA-based biotech company has gotten clearance from the FDA to start marketing telaprevir (Incivek) as a new treatment for patients in the U.S. with hepatitis C. The new drug, a protease inhibitor designed to fight the liver-damaging virus, is now approved … Continue reading “Vertex, On Deadline, Wins FDA Approval for Hepatitis C Drug”
Active Network Teed Up for IPO This Week, InterDigital Opens Local Lab, Aptera Ready to Move Production Out of California, & More San Diego BizTech News
The big news this week, if it happens, will be the Active Network’s IPO. But we’ve also rounded up all the other important developments from San Diego’s tech community, and our briefing begins now. —The San Diego-based Active Network could have a market valuation that is close to $1 billion if its IPO takes place … Continue reading “Active Network Teed Up for IPO This Week, InterDigital Opens Local Lab, Aptera Ready to Move Production Out of California, & More San Diego BizTech News”
How to Make Money in Biotech With No Hope of Going Public, Slim Odds of Getting Acquired
Most biotech entrepreneurs I’ve met have a dream that ends one of two ways. They will either take their company public, or sell their startup to a giant drugmaker. Those are the paths to making money, making venture investors happy, and getting the resources needed to take a new drug all the way to the … Continue reading “How to Make Money in Biotech With No Hope of Going Public, Slim Odds of Getting Acquired”
Brighter.com Lands $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=29138f5f-af84-4dae-a0c9-f3bbc17f6326&Preview=1 Date 5/23/2011 Company Name Brighter.com Mailing Address 501 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401 Company Description Brighter features top-rated dentists at the most affordable prices. Cut your dental costs in half! Website http://www.brighter.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,000,000 Transaction Round Series A Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not … Continue reading “Brighter.com Lands $5,000,000 Series A Financing Round”
Electric Cars Won’t Take Over, Biofuels 3.0 Must Fix the Bugs, & Microorganisms as Problem-Solvers: Big Ideas from Cleantech Leaders
We had a great time at our latest Xconomy Seattle event, “Separating Hype from Reality in Alternative Fuels,” held last night at the new Institute for Systems Biology headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The presenters sketched some meaty ideas about the drive to develop oil alternatives, challenged a bit of conventional thinking, and … Continue reading “Electric Cars Won’t Take Over, Biofuels 3.0 Must Fix the Bugs, & Microorganisms as Problem-Solvers: Big Ideas from Cleantech Leaders”
Garageband on the iPad Makes Amateur Musicians into Artists
Can you be a composer without being a musician? Thanks to the latest generation of music authoring software, the answer is yes. Take me, for example. I played the trombone in high school, and I can still read music (bass clef anyway), but I would be very hard pressed to strum a guitar chord, keep … Continue reading “Garageband on the iPad Makes Amateur Musicians into Artists”
Multiple Pathways to the Exit: Canaan’s Bloch on Advanced BioHealing Buyout
The $750 million sale of Advanced BioHealing to the Irish drug giant Shire Pharmaceuticals, announced on Tuesday, has been hailed as a rare win for regenerative medicine, with an extraordinary 15x return for Canaan Partners, the venture firm that helped to found the company just five years ago. But as I noted in a 2009 … Continue reading “Multiple Pathways to the Exit: Canaan’s Bloch on Advanced BioHealing Buyout”
SMSC Acquires BridgeCo for $67,500,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4f20b6ae-5a24-42fb-bb1a-34d98b829099&Preview=1 Date 5/20/2011 Company Name BridgeCo Mailing Address 400 Continental Blvd 6th Floor El Segundo, CA 90245 Company Description BridgeCo, a networked entertainment pioneer, offers the world’s most comprehensive, cost-effective and highly integrated processor IC and software platforms for connecting Internet media sources, computers and consumer electronics throughout the home. Website http://www.bridgeco.com … Continue reading “SMSC Acquires BridgeCo for $67,500,000”
Shire Pays $750M for Advanced BioHealing, Amylin Sues Lilly, Pacira CEO Describes His Most Difficult Task, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
Our roundup of San Diego’s biotech news is short, but we had some important developments over the past week. Your update begins now. — Westport, CT-based Advanced BioHealing, which makes Dermagraft bio-engineered skin patches in San Diego, agreed to a $750 million buyout offer from Shire (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SHPGY]]), the Irish pharmaceutical drug maker. The deal … Continue reading “Shire Pays $750M for Advanced BioHealing, Amylin Sues Lilly, Pacira CEO Describes His Most Difficult Task, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
Polaris Expands Ludwig Collaboration
The San Diego-based Polaris Group has agreed to expand its collaboration with the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research on their work together in developing pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG 20), a promising anti-cancer compound. We recently profiled the company here. Under their expanded collaboration, Polaris and the institute hope to identify other enzymes with potential anti-tumor … Continue reading “Polaris Expands Ludwig Collaboration”
AutoGenomics Withdraws IPO
In a letter to federal regulators yesterday, Carlsbad, CA-based AutoGenomics withdrew its filing for an initial public offering, which the company submitted in July, 2008. The company said at that time that its IPO would be made only by means of a prospectus, with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. acting as the sole book-running manager of … Continue reading “AutoGenomics Withdraws IPO”
Pacira Raises Wall Street Expectations of a New Blockbuster Painkiller
The last time Xconomy checked in with Pacira Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:PCRX]]), in early 2009, the company was laying off a third of its workforce in the wake of a disappointing clinical trial of Exparel, a treatment for post-surgical pain. Pacira was capital-constrained because the market for life-sciences IPOs was all but dead. And the future … Continue reading “Pacira Raises Wall Street Expectations of a New Blockbuster Painkiller”
Music Mastermind Obtains $6,800,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=0f278a15-7a29-46b4-ad03-3fefa6c3d324&Preview=1 Date 5/19/2011 Company Name Music Mastermind Mailing Address 22301 Mulholland Highway Calabasas, CA 91302 Company Description Music Mastermind (MMM), based in Calabasas, CA, and formed in 2008, is an entertainment software company that is changing the way music is created, shared, and enjoyed. Led by top players in the three very … Continue reading “Music Mastermind Obtains $6,800,000 New Funding Round”
Medtronic’s Hawkins and BSX’s Elliott Exit Stage Right As Medical Device Industry Shifts
It’s pretty tough to be a CEO at a major medical device company these days. Just ask Bill Hawkins, who was reportedly pushed out at Medtronic and Ray Elliott, who abruptly left Boston Scientific. I’m not sure if the two men ever knew each other but their departures have a weird type of symmetry. Both … Continue reading “Medtronic’s Hawkins and BSX’s Elliott Exit Stage Right As Medical Device Industry Shifts”
SDG&E, Soitec Add 2 Local Solar Sites
San Diego Gas & Electric has added two more 25-year contracts with French-based Soitec, which will supply a total of 125 megawatts from solar energy sites using Soitec’s Concentrix CPV (Concentrating Photo-Voltaic solar panel modules. In a statement today, the two companies say Soitec Solar Development will manufacture the modules in a new factory to … Continue reading “SDG&E, Soitec Add 2 Local Solar Sites”
Chumby Industries Lands $1,500,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c960d545-c209-4f99-abd5-04de41934852&Preview=1 Date 5/18/2011 Company Name Chumby Industries Mailing Address 12264 El Camino Real San Diego, CA 92130 Company Description Introducing the chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff … Continue reading “Chumby Industries Lands $1,500,000 New Round”
Cameron Health Garners $107,000,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=63081c86-a20b-4e65-9339-0ab5731932cd&Preview=1 Date 5/18/2011 Company Name Cameron Health Mailing Address 905 Calle Amanecer San Clemente, CA 92673 Company Description Cameron Health, Inc., a development stage medical device company, is creating the next generation of implantable electronic device utilizing state-of-the-art technologies. We are a team of specialized, high technology, creative individuals with decades of … Continue reading “Cameron Health Garners $107,000,000 New Round”
Healthcare Needs Real Entrepreneurs Before It Can Have Real Innovation
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending an event put together by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a branch of the US Department Of Health and Human Services whose mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. AHRQ has established an Innovation Exchange … Continue reading “Healthcare Needs Real Entrepreneurs Before It Can Have Real Innovation”
InterDigital Opens San Diego Outpost in Quest to Ease “Bandwidth Crunch”
InterDigital (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IDCC]]), a company that invents new wireless technologies and counts Samsung, Research in Motion, and HTC among its biggest customers, has opened a satellite R&D lab in San Diego. The new facility is initially focused on developing technologies to improve the capacity of wireless networks, according to Bill Merritt, the company’s CEO. Merritt, … Continue reading “InterDigital Opens San Diego Outpost in Quest to Ease “Bandwidth Crunch””
Amylin Sues Eli Lilly, Arguing Breach of Contract in Marketing Rival Diabetes Drug
[Updated: 8:55 am PT] Amylin Pharmaceuticals is hauling one of its big partners, Eli Lilly, into court. San Diego-based Amylin (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMLN]]) said today it has filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for Southern California, that accuses Lilly of anticompetitive behavior and violating a 2002 agreement between the companies that covers the marketing … Continue reading “Amylin Sues Eli Lilly, Arguing Breach of Contract in Marketing Rival Diabetes Drug”
Active Network Sets IPO Price Range, MIR3 Expands Platform, Qualcomm Collaborates on $10M Tricorder X Prize, & More San Diego BizTech News
It has taken about 12 years and more than $275 million in venture capital for San Diego’s Active Network to get into the starting gate for an IPO. We have details on that and the rest of San Diego’s tech news. —San Diego’s Active Network, which provides online registration services for sporting events and other … Continue reading “Active Network Sets IPO Price Range, MIR3 Expands Platform, Qualcomm Collaborates on $10M Tricorder X Prize, & More San Diego BizTech News”
Will Biotech Ever Again Captivate the Public Imagination, Like Facebook or LinkedIn?
Everywhere you look this spring, there are signs of bubbly enthusiasm for technology. Microsoft just paid $8.5 billion for a company that isn’t profitable. Facebook has racked up more than 600 million members around the world. LinkedIn is teed up to go public this week at a valuation of more than $3 billion. It may … Continue reading “Will Biotech Ever Again Captivate the Public Imagination, Like Facebook or LinkedIn?”
The iPad Finally Has a Worthy Rival: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1
Apple may be the world’s largest electronics company as measured by market capitalization, but Samsung is the largest by sales. So it makes sense that the Seoul, Korea-based giant—not Microsoft, not HP, not Motorola, not Dell—would the first to compete seriously in the market that Apple invented last year with the introduction of the iPad. … Continue reading “The iPad Finally Has a Worthy Rival: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1”
Conexant Systems Receives New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4a1e6529-0f4d-43fa-8992-598b2213f69a&Preview=1 Date 5/13/2011 Company Name Conexant Systems Mailing Address 4000 MacArthur Blvd Newport Beach, CA 92660 Company Description Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor system solutions for communications applications, leverages its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products through two separate businesses. Website http://www.conexant.com … Continue reading “Conexant Systems Receives New Financing Round”
ShoeDazzle.com Receives $40,000,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=be0dc282-1007-4007-9c90-2d46ce2ac9e7&Preview=1 Date 5/13/2011 Company Name ShoeDazzle.com Mailing Address 3530 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90010 Company Description ShoeDazzle’s fashion experts choose the hottest shoes for you every month based on YOUR individual personality and tastes. The shoes we pick for you will express your individuality and sense of style. Distinctive, yet trend-right. … Continue reading “ShoeDazzle.com Receives $40,000,000 New Funding”
Small Demons Garners $2,950,500 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=11f1deac-6b20-4391-815c-f9afaa4cb2d5&Preview=1 Date 5/13/2011 Company Name Small Demons Mailing Address 4051 Glencoe Ave. Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Company Description The company is developing an online aggregation service. Website http://www.smalldemons.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $2,950,500 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. Class A common and class B … Continue reading “Small Demons Garners $2,950,500 New Round”
Halozyme Deal Could Yield $83M, Wireless Health Leaders Converge, Readers Vote on Worst Drug Names, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
Much of the action this week was taking place downtown, at the 6th annual Convergence Summit hosted by the nonprofit Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance. The three-day conference included CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and innovators—and we’ve got the highlights of that and other area life sciences news wrapped up here. —San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), the largest … Continue reading “Halozyme Deal Could Yield $83M, Wireless Health Leaders Converge, Readers Vote on Worst Drug Names, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
A Startup Rival Offers His Perspective on Enormous Microsoft-Skype Deal
On Tuesday, the sun set in the East. Water ran uphill. And Redmond, WA-based Microsoft agreed to pay $8.5 billion in cash for an Internet company that gives away much of its service for free. The news could only be more de-polarizing if Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies had developed its Internet-based telephone service as open source … Continue reading “A Startup Rival Offers His Perspective on Enormous Microsoft-Skype Deal”
Fisker Automotive Garners $100,000,000 Series C Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=9b5d26b0-e5d0-4eca-90b9-fa333a8be212&Preview=1 Date 5/12/2011 Company Name Fisker Automotive Mailing Address 19 Corporate Park Irvine, CA 92606 Company Description The concept was created between two independent companies who clearly wanted to make a difference in not only the automotive industry, but to the environment as well. Website http://www.fiskerautomotive.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount … Continue reading “Fisker Automotive Garners $100,000,000 Series C Funding Round”
Kara Swisher on Social Media: Is There Still a Play?
The San Diego Venture Group has invited the Bay Area’s “Boomtown” journalist Kara Swisher, who is now the co-producer and co-host of the All Things Digital conference, to discuss the future of social media. Is it a boom? Is it a bubble? Are San Diego’s entrepreneurs and investors too late—or too far from the action? … Continue reading “Kara Swisher on Social Media: Is There Still a Play?”
Active Network Ready to Pull IPO Trigger
[Corrected 5/20/09, 5:00 pm. See below.] The Active Network is in the starting blocks for its IPO. The San Diego Internet company, which provides online event registration services for sporting event organizers, churches, campgrounds, and other customers, set a price range between $16 and $18 a share for its initial stock offering in a regulatory … Continue reading “Active Network Ready to Pull IPO Trigger”
Sapphire Getting Gas from Linde
San Diego algae biofuels developer Sapphire Energy said today it has signed a multi-year agreement with the Linde Group of Munich, Germany, to co-develop a low-cost system for supplying carbon dioxide to commercial-scale, open-pond, algae-to-fuel cultivation systems. Linde, the leading commercial supplier of carbon dioxide in the United States, agreed to deliver carbon dioxide to … Continue reading “Sapphire Getting Gas from Linde”
Proximetry Names Chief Strategist
San Diego-based Proximetry, which I profiled last summer, today named Andres Carvello as executive vice president and chief strategy officer. In its statement today, Proximetry says Carvello was previously the chief information officer at Austin Energy and chief architect of the first fully deployed smart grid in the United States. He will be responsible for … Continue reading “Proximetry Names Chief Strategist”
Nukona, Integer Wireless Offer Wireless Health Security
San Diego-based Nukona, a startup developing security management software for mobile devices, has formed a partnership with Integer Wireless, a Newport Beach, CA, engineering firm that provides HIPAA-compliant wireless networks for hospitals, physician groups, and other healthcare providers. Under a partnership announced this week at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance’s annual Convergence Summit in San Diego, … Continue reading “Nukona, Integer Wireless Offer Wireless Health Security”
Smart Grid Startups Unveil Partnership
San Diego’s On-Ramp Wireless says it has formed a partnership with Sacramento, CA-based GridSense that will combine On-Ramp’s low-power wireless networking technology with GridSense’s TransformerIQ technology. In a statement today, the companies say that combining their technologies will enable electric utilities to monitor their distribution networks at a lower cost, improve outage restoration, and improve … Continue reading “Smart Grid Startups Unveil Partnership”