Roundup, deals, Life Sciences Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It’s hard for any company to raise capital in this recession, but several San Diego life sciences startups disclosed last week they had done just that. A few bright spots also appeared during a local seminar on mergers and acquisitionsR...

8020 Media hoped to revolutionize the magazine business. Instead, it has circled down the drain, ending up in the hands of shadowy investors after a new CEO with a Condé Nast résumé looted the startup. That CEO, Mitch Fox, has announced the sale of the company's assets to a new company called 802...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has acquired Fabrik, the San Mateo-based data storage firm which owns the G-Technology and SimpleTech data storage brands. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Fabrik is a provider of data storage hardware, flash memory, USB hard drives, and memo...

The following is a guest post written by Mike McDonald. McDonald owns 118,000 shares of Microsoft, bought in 2000 at an average price of $36 share (adjusted for splits and dividend payouts). He has since seen the company grow its revenue and profits while his equity has been halved. He points out th...

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Canadian oil sands, filled with 173 billion barrels of hard-to-reach oil, are quickly becoming the staging ground for the world's largest oilpatch wrestling match. You'd think the $100 drop in oil prices, which caused companies to cut capital spending and delay projects, coupled with the threat of s...

It's not exactly a huge surprise at this point, but Fujitsu and Toshiba have announced today that they've signed a memorandum of understanding on the transfer of Fujitsu's hard drive business to Toshiba, and that they plan to conclude a transfer contract "at an early date." To make the transition as...

Loud were the snorts from RBS staff as they watched the men who had led their bank to ruin make their excuses to MPs. Although the press described the "humiliation" of Sir Tom McKillop, the former chairman, and Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive, insiders knew the pair had got away with mu...

Network Security, IT, Software Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: When Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) announced a couple of weeks ago it had acquired Defensio, a Canadian spam filtering Web service, I realized the San Diego software developer had morphed into something bigger and more robust than I remembered. ̶...

Well, it looks like a few pesky patent issues weren't enough to keep CSR, mostly known for its Bluetooth chips, from snapping up omnipresent GPS chipmaker SiRF, with the two companies today announcing that they're set to fully combine their companies into one giant chipmaking operation. Under the al...