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It was CardioNet , which is a great company Jim Sweeney started/runs down in San Diego (and participated in OCTANe's CA Medical Device Forum in 2006) at the intersection of health care and wireless data. (Congrats, The total number of IPOs is six for 2008 per the article and no "tech ones" since Valentine's Day? Here in 2008 it is around $130. I was reading the daily Venture Wire blurb last Friday. Usually these are "quick reads" and sort of a mix between a story in the LA Times and Food and Wine, but the content in this one was particularly fascinating and alarming

We left Sony in 2006 in order to do Metaplace--I'd dreamed about doing it for about ten years, and actually put together our first prototype in the spare bedroom, with my wife helping me out. We went and raised a Series A back in late 2006, and went on to win the audience award at TechCrunch40. Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about

He sold the company to a group of private investors in February 2008. But in 2006, managed hosts were available and they were a lot cheaper.  Bandwidth This is a story of a company that was built in a living room and went on to become a cultural phenomenon. I asked James Hong to come to Mixergy and teach how he and his co-founder,

Berger has been at Sony since 2006, running Sony Pictures Television's mobile games division, and has also served at Time Warner Inc., Sony purchased Crackle, formerly known as Grouper, in August of 2006. Culver City-based Sony Pictures Entertainment said Wednesday that it has named Eric Berger as head of the firm's Crackle online video network. where he was VP of Strategic Planning.

Amelio was formerly the CEO of Apple, and had headed up Acquicor prior to Jazz; Acquicor went IPO as a blank check acquisition firm in 2006 with ex Apple-CTO Ellen Hancock, and Apple founder Steve Wozniak. Acquicor acquired Jazz Semiconductor in 2006 for $260 Newport Beach-based Jazz Technologies and Tower Semiconductor said Friday that the two companies have completed their merger. According to the firms, Jazz Semiconductor has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Tower Semiconductor, named Jazz Semiconductor Inc.

The round is the second to come from Berkshire, which invested $3M in an earlier funding in 2006, along with angel support. Irvine-based Vangard Voice Systems said Wednesday that the firm has raised $2M in a Series B funding round, form Berkshire Ventures, LLC. Vangard develops software tools for voice-enabling enterprise applications.

AstraZeneca paid $200M in 2006 for the rights to the compound, which is used for treating breast cance Los Angeles-based Abraxis BioScience, a biotechnology firm focused on compounds for treating cancer, said this morning that it has reached an agreement with AstraZeneca UK Limited to re-acquire rights to market the firm's ABRAXANE treatment in the United States. According to AstraZeneca, the move will result in the payment of $268M to the firm from Abraxis.

Ascom and Comarco have been working together on mobile test products since 200 Lake Forest-based Comarco announced Monday that it has agreed to sell its wireless test solutions business to Ascom Holdings A.G, in a deal worth approximately $12.75M in cash. Comarco said the sale is part of its strategy to focus its business on its mobile power solutions.

Founded in 2006, she called to ask me about the Tech Coast Angels' Fast Pitch . I'll join Cathy at the National Angel Summit in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada October 15-17, 2008. You've heard about a Fast Pitch, right? Those bake-offs where entrepreneurs get just 60 seconds to pitch their deal to a panel of angels and VCs. Wanna know how to