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.

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: Tags: employment dotmatics sandiego informatics softwar 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

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

San Diego Gas & Electric is one of the first utilities to sign up with Google and its new Google PowerMeter energy monitoring project, Google said this morning. The partnership will allow San Diego Gas & Electric customers with smart meters to access that smart meter information via Google and its PowerMeter widget software. Tags: diego electric monitoring energy power powermeter Google, which is in the midst of creating widgets for allowing consumers to see and monitor their power consumption, said that SDG&E is one of eight initial utility partners launching with the Internet giant.

San Diego-based Arkeia Software , a developer of backup and disaster recovery software, said Monday that the firm has inked a sales, marketing, and technology partnership with Falconstor. Falconstor is a provider of data backup, mirroring, virtualization, and other data storage software. According to the firms, the deal covers use of Falconstor's Virtual Arkeia's backup software is used by system administrators to back up their network. Falconstor's VTL appliance provides disk-based emulation of tape systems. ...Tags:

San Diego-based DivX announced today that it has released a new, updated version of its video player software for the Windows platform. According to DivX, its DivX Plus Software, which is available for free, has been "completely redesigned," and now supports DivX Plus HD video, easier transfer of videos to DivX Certified devices, an enhanced Codec pack for Windows Media Player, HD support in web browsers, as well as a new video converter application supporting 1080p HD content. The software is free and available on the DivX web site. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

San Diego-based Illumina announced a new software product today, GenomeStudio, which the firm says can be used to analyze data from genetic research efforts. According to Illumina, the firm's new software allows researchers to analyze microarray and sequencing data from DNA analysis efforts. Illumina, which develops tools for the life sciences industry, also said the new tool also allows researchers Illumina's software is used in gene sequencing and analysis. READ MOR

San Diego-based OpenCandy , which is developing products to help software publisher increase downloads and sales of their products, said Thursday that it has signed up PDF software firm PrimoPDF as a customer. According to OpenCandy, PrimoPDF is using the firm to help users discover other compelling applications when their software is being installed. The deal will generate revenue for PrimoPDF, which is a free tool that allows users to create PDF files on Windows machines. OpenCandy is headed by Darrius Thompson, and staffed with ex-DivX employees; the firm

San Diego-based Kyriba Corporation, a venture-backed provider of software-as-a-service used for treasury cash management, said this morning that the firm has rolled out an enhancement to its offerings. Accordng to the firm, its software now connects to SWIFT, which is a financial messaging network used by banks to exchange secure messages. Kyriba's Kyriba said the connection into SWIFT comes via a partnership with BRED Banque. The firm is venture backed by American Express, BIH, BRED Banque Populaire, Coface, GRP Partners, and Mangrove Capital Partners.

San Diego-based Arkeia Software announced today that it has acquired Kadena Systems , a developer of data deduplication technology. The firm said the addition of the technology will provide source-side, data deduplication for its software, which will accelerate backup and reduce network congestion. Tags: arkeia software backup data storage kadena systems merger acquisition deduplicatio Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Arkeia, it will integrate Kadena's deduplicaton technology into its Arkeia Network Backup product.