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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 -- MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. This has become the chapter's signature event, and is widely recognized as the premier networking event for San Diego's technology and biotechnology community. With more than 500 founders and executives of growth companies, business development personnel, investors, service providers, this industry networking social creates an opportunity for technology sector leaders and entrepreneurs across all segments to connect in a relaxed and inspiring setting. Networking event. See [link] (mor

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Tags: google search engine research developmen Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M as part of its Google Focused Research Awards, to help fund research in ares of study that are of key interest to the company.

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 Ch 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. Ekman is te former EVP and President of Global Research and Development at Elan Corporation. According to Sofinnova, Ekman will work to identify and build early stage companies, and will be based in San Diego. Sofinnova, which invests in early stage life sciences and IT firms, said it has appointed Lars Ekman, M.D., Ph.D.

David Titus , a venture capitalist at Windward Ventures , has joined the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation as Managing Director, Strategic Initiatives, the nonprofit said yesterday. The San Diego EDC is a nonprofit helping to bolster businesses in the San Diego region, and said that Titus will help support the group in familiarizing company executives in San Diego with the group's mission, encourage them to grow in the region, and also look to attract and identify companies looking to expand and create jobs. Titus is a co-founder and Managing Director at Windward Ventures, which he co-founded with Jim Cole.

UK-based Dotmatics , a developer of informatics and business intelligence software, reported today that the firm has opened up new offices in San Diego. Dotmatics develops web-based and other software tools for browsing and visualizing biological databases, scientific data, sharing research information, and more. ...Tags: The firm said the North American offices for the firm are in Del Mar, and were opened in response to "huge interest" and a rapidly growing customer base in the USA. The firm did not say how many people will be located at its new offices.

Oxford, England-based Enigma Diagnostics , a molecular diagnostics firm, said today that it has opened up a new, regional headquarters in San Diego. office is in the Sorrento Valley, where it will house sales and marketing, assay development, regulatory and manufacturing activity. Enigma said it hopes to tap the "deep resource pool" in San Diego of in vitro diagnostics professionals. ...Tags: Enigma said the new, 17,000 sq. ft.

The San Diego arm of the Founder Institute , the entrepreneurship mentoring effort started by Adeo Ressi, said Friday that it has graduated 12 companies from its Fall 2009 San Diego semester. The group said the companies included CloudCanvas , an online imaging editing site, Live On Campus , an interactive publishing platform for college and university students, and XBand Technologies , a firm developing electronic devices for monitoring performance, nutrition, and hydration for cyclist. Names of the other companies were not announced. ...Tags: Tags:

Sorenson Media , a developer of video compression and encoding software, said today that the firm has opened up a new, San Diego office which will serve as the firm's "central hub" for its business operations. The firm said it is looking to "significantly expand" its San Diego location this year. Tags: employment jobs diego video sorenson According to the firm, the new office comes as the firm hired a new CEO, Peter Csathy. Csathy was most recently at SightSpeed, which was acquired by Logitech last year, and has also served at Musicmatch, which was sold