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• Eset Expands Smartphone Security, Qualcomm’s Firethorn Offers Swagg, Proximetry Focuses on Private Wireless Networks, & More San Diego BizTech News

  Is Swagg something you’d want—or not want—on your smartphone? If you don’t know, you better catch up on what Qualcomm’s Firethorn has planned for the upcoming holidays, along with the rest... Read more »

• Qualcomm’s Firethorn Begins Rollout of Wireless Gift Card Ahead of Holiday Season

  Three years ago, San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) paid $210 million in cash to acquire an Atlanta mobile banking startup called Firethorn Holdings. At the time, some commentaries emphasized... Read more »

• Otonomy Gets $38.5M, Avalon Helps Restart Drug for Age-Related Blindness, Accumetrics Heads Toward Profitability, & More San Diego Life Sciences News

  The life sciences news over the past week was almost all about deals. Money came out of INC Research, a contract research organization in North Carolina that was founded in San... Read more »

• Active Network Preparing IPO

  The San Diego-based Active Network, a Web-based services company that provides everything from online campground reservations to registration for softball leagues and marathons, is now “quite far along in discussions with... Read more »

• Accumetrics Adds $7 Million in Venture Funding, Plans to Reach Profitability

  San Diego-based Accumetrics says today it has raised an additional $7 million as part of a Series E venture round that was announced last October, when the biomedical diagnostics company raised... Read more »

• Cebix Raises $16M From Investors

  San Diego-based Cebix, which is developing a replacement therapy based on human proinsulin C-peptide as a supplemental treatment for complications from type 1 diabetes, has raised $16 million over the... Read more »

• Eset Readies Mobile Security Software for Some Smartphone Operating Systems

  I must begin with a confession: It’s been awhile since I sat down with Eset CEO Anton Zajac to get an update on the privately held IT security and anti-virus software... Read more »

• San Diego’s ReVision Therapeutics, Founded in April, Takes on Development of Drug Candidate for Age-Related Blindness

  A San Diego biopharmaceutical startup, formed just five months ago to resume development of a compound for treating age-related macular degeneration, has reported encouraging results from a two-year, mid-stage clinical trial... Read more »

• Fallbrook Raises Additional $6M for Innovative Transmission

  San Diego’s Fallbrook Technologies has raised another $6 million in venture capital, according to an amended IPO registration form the company filed with government regulators Friday. Fallbrook, which is developing an... Read more »

• Proximetry Emerging with Technology to Manage Performance of ‘Smart Grid’ and Other Wireless Networks

  San Diego-based Proximetry’s co-founder and CEO, Tracy Trent, says he has been consciously trying to keep the wireless software company under the radar since it was started almost six years ago.... Read more »

• ShowUhow Raises $3M

  San Diego-based ShowUhow, which creates and hosts online video instruction guides for retail and manufacturing partners, says today it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Syncom Venture... Read more »

• Otonomy Closes $38.5M Round to Fund Trials of Hearing-Disorder Treatments

  Follow-on funding for Otonomy that Luke presaged in June has been disclosed by the San Diego biotech, a two-year-old startup developing drug treatments for hearing loss and balance disorders.

  Otonomy says... Read more »

• First Two Startups Leaving CommNexus Incubator, Qualcomm at 25, Oceanhouse Media Shows App-titude for Children’s Books, & More San Diego BizTech News

  Of all the tech news we had last week, I thought the most interesting was what our Xconomists had to say about Qualcomm, past and future. We’ve got the wrap on... Read more »

• Presto, Tibetan Bowls, & Dr. Seuss: How Michel Kripalani Got His Entrepreneurial Karma Back

  Some tales of technology innovation have an ethereal quality to them, and such is the case with Oceanhouse Media—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that such is... Read more »

• Cypress Bio Acquires Technologies in Separate Deals with Marina Biotech, Alexza Pharmaceutical

  San Diego’s Cypress Bioscience (NASDAQ: CYPB), which is trying to keep an unsolicited buyout at bay while executing a dramatic change in its business strategy, says it has acquired rights... Read more »

• Finistere Planning New Venture Fund, National Cancer Institute Official Offers SBIR Insights, Ramius Still Tries to Woo Cypress Bio, & More San Diego Life Sciences News

  Funding for San Diego life sciences startups can come in the form of small financing deals and as federal Small Business Innovation Research grants that can help to keep small biotechs... Read more »

• San Diego Founder Kenneth Selzer, Investor Drew Senyei Pleased with INC Research Acquisition

  There was no obvious reason for us to focus on the $575 million buyout of INC Research, a contract research organization based in Research Triangle Park, NC, that was announced last... Read more »

• Ramius Still Wants Cypress Bio

  It took a week, but Ramius Value and Opportunity Advisors responded today to what it calls the “abrupt resignation” of independent director Jean-Pierre Millon from the board at San... Read more »

• Finistere Plans New Venture Fund

  Finistere Ventures, a San Diego venture capital firm that has maintained a low profile while investing in early stage medical device and agricultural biotech startups, is laying plans to raise another... Read more »

• A SBIR Program Director Offers Insights in Small Business Innovation Research “Grantsmanship” in the Life Sciences

  There was a heavy turnout among rank-and-file scientists when the grassroots San Diego Entrepreneur Exchange (SDEE) hosted a panel discussion earlier this year on how to win a Small Business Innovation... Read more »