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 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 at

Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- San Diego TSX Roadshow. Overview of Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange. See http://www.tsx.com/usa... mor

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 -- San Diego Supercomputer Center, New Building Dedication. Please join us in ushering in a new era of data-intensive computing as we formally dedicate our award-winning, energy-efficient 80,000 square-foot addition that will further position the San Diego Supercomputer Center as a key resource for industry and educational research. Email industrybreakfast@sdsc.edu... mor

6pm Thursday, October 2, 2008 San Diego, CA 92121 QUALCOMM Q Q - Auditorium 6455 6455 Lusk Blvd. San Register immediately ! Fifteen finalists will compete at the 2nd annual Quick Pitch competition, in which entrepreneurs present

Midway Games, a Chicago-based video games developer, announced Tuesday afternoon that it has cut 25 percent of its staff, in a move that also affects the firm's San Diego locations. Number of San Diego employees affected by the move was not disclosed. The cuts in San Diego came in conjunction with closure of the firm's Austin operations and similar cuts in Chicag Midway made the announcement saying that the moves were necessary in response to both challenges the firm is facing, as well as the current economy.

Venture capital firm Sofinnova Ventures has hired on an Executive-in-Residence based in San Diego, the firm said Thursday. According to Sofinnova, Ekman will work to identify and build early stage companies, and will be based in San Diego. Sofinnova is an investor in a number of San Diego firms, including Cebix, Intellikine, Ocera Therapeutics, Phenomix, and Trius Therapeutic Sofinnova, which invests in early stage life sciences and IT firms, said it has appointed Lars Ekman, M.D., Ph.D.

Tapestry Solutions, a San Diego-based provider of services and software for tracking equipment and spare parts for the U.S. Tapestry Solutions has 350 employees, with the majority located in San Diego, and approximately 150 deployed worldwide, including in Ira Department of Defense, has been acquired by The Boeing Company, Boeing said late last week. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

San Diego-based American Internet Services, a Internet data center co-location provider, said Tuesday that the firm has been acquired by an investor group lead by private equity firm Seaport Capital. American Internet Services operates multiple data centers in the San Diego area, with over 105,000 square feet and 100 employee The company did not disclose terms of the acquisition, but said that other investors in the acquiring group were Viridian Investment Partners and DuPont Capital Management. According to AIS, the firm's day to day operations will continue to be

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 the site and the new investment round. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae. First

quot;Raptor" or the "Company") , today announced the execution of a collaboration agreement (the "Agreement") with the University of California, San Diego ("UCSD") to include a Phase 2a clinical trial to evaluate a delayed-release preparation of cysteamine bitartrate ("Cysteamine") in adolescents diagnosed with Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis ("NASH"). In March 2008, Raptor acquired an exclusive, worldwide license to certain intellectual property and development rights from UCSD surrounding the use of Cysteamine as a potential