Connecting Game Players to Build a Sense of Loyalty

By SETH SCHIESEL MY Times Back in the analog era, delivering mass entertainment meant helping people connect with a character, a brand or a franchise. Few companies were more successful with that approach than Disney, with its stable of pop…  Read More

Music without labels

By Samantha Marshall dkc NEWS Who needs big record labels? Not U2 and Jay-Z, who left their companies in the past two weeks to sign on with Live Nation. Madonna, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have also voted with their…  Read More

VCs Warming Up to Area Biotechs

San Diego Competitive With New England and Silicon Valley in National Ranking By Ned Randolph San Diego Business Journal Staff San Diego continues to stake a claim as a leading biotech center, finishing as No. 3 in venture capital investments…  Read More

Avalon Ventures Closes $150 M Eighth Fund

By Lorie Konish Dow Jones Journal Early-stage venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has closed its eighth venture fund, reaching its fund-raising goal of just over $150 million, Avalon Managing Director Kevin Kinsella said. Read the article

Avalon Ventures Closes on $150 Million Avalon VIII Fund

Firm Adds Two Managing Directors to New Fund La Jolla, Calif. — February 20, 2008 — Avalon Ventures, an investor in early stage companies in biotechnology, wireless communications and Web media applications, today announced it has closed on its eighth…  Read More

More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers

By BRAD STONE FRIENDSHIP means being able to sink each other’s battleships. That is the thinking of Mark Pincus, a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has built several Internet start-ups, including Support.com and the early social network Tribe.net. On Tuesday,…  Read More

Amira Pharmaceuticals Appoints First Vice President of Development

Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc San Diego, CA – November 1, 2007– Amira Pharmaceuticals, a small molecule pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of compounds to treat inflammatory disease linked to the eicosanoid pathway, today announced the appointment of Isabelle…  Read More

Amira Pharmaceuticals Announces Favorable Phase 1 Clinical Trial Results for Lead Product Candidate AM103 and Initiates Clinical Studies for the 2nd Entry Molecule for the Treatment of Respiratory and Cardiovascular Disease

Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc San Diego, CA – November 1, 20072007 — Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced completion of the company’s Phase 1 clinical trial of AM103, Amira’s internally discovered oral drug candidate for the treatment of inflammatory diseases linked to the…  Read More

Kaltura Wins Spot as 40th Company at TechCrunch40

Mark Hendrickson Brooklyn-based Kaltura has earned the honor to present as the 40th company in this year’s TechCrunch40 conference, beating next generation forums provider Tangler by a handful of votes.

Lahaina biotech company gets $3M in venture capital

Advertiser Staff The Honolulu Advertiser InCode BioPharmaceutics Inc. in Lahaina received $3 million in venture capital from Avalon Ventures during the second quarter, according to the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Moneytree survey. The company is developing therapeutic compounds to treat autoimmune disorders. Hawaii…  Read More