April 2007 I had a miracle surgery and they implanted a digital hearing device into my brain (i know right!) Early 2009 I stopped drinking alcohol and putting damaging substances into my body and this has been given me remarking clarity and performance benefits. No doubt you’d agree how quickly this past decade has flown by.  MORE >>

Schiefer had been nabbed by the FBI in 2007 as part of a larger sting, called "Operation Bot Roast II", which also snagged seven other defendants. According to the FBI indictment, the employee, John Scheifer, infected 250,000 computers with malware to create a "botnet"--a network of hacked computers used to steal account data. MORE >>

That growth–which only includes Los Angeles, and does not include Orange County or San Diego–is just a small part of the upsurge in startup activity in Southern California that I’ve personally observed over the last 10 years (socalTECH — in its hand-copied email form — started in 1998). Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com. MORE >>

Calixa was co-founded in 2007 by Dr. Eckard Weber and Dr. James Ge, and had acquired development rights to its primary compound from Astellas Pharma. The deal was worth $92.5M in cash, with potential milestone payments worth up to $310M. Dr. Weber, partner at Domain Associates, was interim CEO at Calixa. MORE >>

Digital Insight became part of Intuit in 2007. Intuit's Calabasas-based Digital Insight unit is expanding its offerings today, saying that it is making its online financial management solution, FinanceWorks, available to bank and credit unions who aren't using its Internet banking platform. MORE >>