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...

Big international trade shows produce a lot of hype, bluster and, when the timing is right, some fairly surprising experiences.  Over the past 10 years that I’ve attended these shows I have seen tremendous progress in device design, throughput capacity, application creativity, the “emergence�...

Roundup, deals, VC Bruce V. Bigelow wrote:   Before the economic downturn deepened last September, many venture capital firms maintained that their operations were unaffected by the overall economy. They’re not saying that anymore. VCs are reacting to hard times in different ways—and so...

Red Herring Global – Top 100 Tech Startups in the World – San Diego 2009 Qualcomm is driven by a vision of ubiquitous Internet connectivity, and sees itself as a key enabler for the wireless ecosystem that will bring global scale web access into reality. Qualcomm innovations will drive the Inter...

Interesting. According to this article at CNet, Asus, Acer and Toshiba are working on small notebooks using Qualcomm’s instant-on solution, Snapdragon. Actually, according to Manjitt Gill (the interviewee) it is more like always on. “Our vision is that (the device is) always connected. E...

Digital Wireless, telecommunications, CDMA Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: The phrase “preaching to the choir” came to mind as I listened to the speakers today at the 3G CDMA North America Regional Conference, which is being held this year in downtown San Diego at the U.S. Grant Hotel. Seated in...

Stupefying. The year-end total for tech sector job losses in 2008 is expected to reach 180,000, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That’s the largest annual job loss for the sector since 2003, when tech firms sacked some 228,325 employees. Not at all hard to believe given the news...

Qualcomm and Nokia are set to go to battle in the US over hundreds of millions of dollars in potential royalty fees. This Wednesday, Qualcomm will argue in a Delaware court that Nokia owes them royalties on CDMA technology patents, with Nokia will defend their position that they've doled out ov...

For a while there, covering the chip industry was like covering a race run by a rabbit and a cheetah. AMD was the rabbit, while Intel — with its much larger market cap and greater profits — was the cheetah. Evey now and then the rabbit would fool you into thinking he was going to pull ah...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), PepsiCo (PEP), Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD), Alcoa Inc (AA), Best Buy (BBY), Nortel Networks (NT), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Texas Instruments (TXN), CMGI Inc (CMGI), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH) Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage...