When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009

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 Networking event. See [link] (mor

San Diego, CA 92121 Finalists will showcase their products and technology, both before and after the competition. 6pm Thursday, October 2, 2008 QUALCOMM Q Q - Auditorium 6455 6455 Lusk Blvd. San

The San Diego Zoo said Thursday afternoon that the zoo is the first zoo in the United States which will be featured in Google's Street View feature. The San Diego Zoo said that the mapping was done by Google in June of 2009, using the firm's special "Trike," a tricycle rigged up with GPS and camera technology. Tags: diego google maps mapping street view trik According to the Zoo, Google Maps now features street level views of the zoo's trails and exhibits--including every visitor pathway and animal exhibit. Google's Street View feature allows users

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- San Diego - The Nation's Hub for Wireless Healthcare. CTIA, the West Wireless Health Institute, Qualcomm, and CommNexus San Diego. With one of the nation's largest life science and wireless clusters, San Diego is poised to become the epicenter for a rapidly emerging and convergent industry - wireless healthcare. Recognizing the potential to leverage the region's remarkable resources, the West Wireless Health Institute was launched in 2009 with a $45 million commitment from the Gary and Mary West Foundation. Scripps Health and Qualcomm

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- San Diego �� The Great, Good, Bad and the Ugly. James Adams will moderate our distinguished panel of San Diego technology leaders and put them on the spot to label San Diego "great, good, bad, or ugly" on more than 20 factors. SDSIC Entrepreneur's Forum. Panelists will be asked to defend their answers and we'll let the sparks fly where there are differences.

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:

SOMARK Innovations , a firm which is developing chipless, RFID tattoo technology used for animal identification, is setting up shop in San Diego, the firm disclosed earlier this month. The company--which also landed a venture capital round from Finistere Ventures and T2 Venture Capital--said the new location will be based at the Center for Emerging Technologies. Finestere SOMARK is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Today, in eWeek: San Diego Is A Rising Star For Clean Energy, Technology Jobs . ...Tags: Seems like a week for “hey look SoCal has a tech industry” articles. Tags: Economy Job

Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?” was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capita On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.  After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com