By Sarah Sluis AdExchange Michael Zimbalist – who spent the past 10 years at The New York Times, most recently as SVP of advertising products – is hopping to ad tech, taking a post as Simulmedia’s CMO. “I’m a change…  Read More

Bruce Bigelow, Xconomy A whole new crop of life sciences startups are germinating in San Diego, (slideshow here) which is good news for the regional cluster of established companies that are focused on innovation in biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare technologies, and medical…  Read More

TechCrunch by Ingrid Lunden Verizon isn’t the only carrier that wants to ramp up in ad tech to complement (and offset) its legacy business. Today, Norway-based Telenor announced that it has acquired Tapad, a New York-based cross-device retargeting startup co-founded by two Norwegians, Are Traasdahl and…  Read More

Jan. 14, 2016 By: Dave Morgan Late last month, I wrote that one of the headlines we’re certain to see in the trades in 2016 will be that “Marketing Tech Will Eat Ad Tech.”  A lot of folks reached out…  Read More

On December 15th and 16th, UCSF Global Health Scienceshosted the Aerial Mosquito Control and Surveillance for Malaria Elimination Meeting at their new Mission Bay campus to discuss innovative approaches to malaria vector control. The Skycatchteam was asked to join the conversation and serve as…  Read More

By Denise Roland MarketWatch LONDON– GlaxoSmithKline PLC has extended a partnership with California venture-capital group Avalon Ventures that gives the drug maker rights to promising early-stage drug candidates. The U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant has increased the maximum amount of money it would…  Read More

Avalon, GSK Extend Their Collaboration with Startup Focused on ALS San Diego’s Avalon Ventures has started a new biotech focused on Lou Gehrig’s disease, the neuro-degenerative disease that claimed the life of the Hall of Fame New York Yankees first…  Read More

Welcome to the future of construction By Ben Popper, The Verge Komatsu is the world’s second largest construction company, a venerable Japanese brand with 94 years of history that sells forklifts and bulldozers to customers around the globe. But in its home…  Read More

Over the past 2 1/2 years, Skycatch has experienced rapid growth as pioneers in advanced robotics innovation, scaling for enterprise, and shaping policy & regulations within a nascent, yet quickly evolving drone industry. As the only drone data company that…  Read More

Synthorx reaches another artificial life milestone The San Diego Union-Tribune By Bradley J. Fikes The world’s first functioning organism with an expanded DNA alphabet has now met another milestone in artificial life: making proteins that don’t exist in nature. The organism,…  Read More

Written by: Cheryl Morris, VP Marketing  BOSTON, MASS. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Nanigans, Inc., the leading worldwide provider of digital and mobile advertising software and pioneer in advertising automation, is extending its software to Instagram. Nanigans’ mission is to arm marketing teams…  Read More

Jim Edwards Business Insider Unicorns are supposed to be rare beasts. But in tech — where a “unicorn” is defined as a private startup company valued at more than $1 billion — at least 100 of them have been spotted so far. At…  Read More

by Emily Parkhurst Puget Sound Business Journal A Seattle cloud and big data company has attracted the attention of several prominent investors as it builds a back-end system for companies looking to improve customer product searches on their apps and…  Read More

Total formed under alliance reaches 6 By Bradley J Fikes San Diego Union-Tribune Crossing the halfway point in their alliance to form up to 10 biotech companies in San Diego, La Jolla’s Avalon Ventures and UK-based GlaxoSmithKline said Monday they have added three…  Read More