{"id":515197,"date":"2010-04-05T04:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=71642"},"modified":"2010-04-05T04:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:40:04","slug":"the-great-ipad-debate-begins-hookit-taps-growing-market-four-under-the-radar-deals-more-san-diego-biztech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/515197","title":{"rendered":"The Great iPad Debate Begins, Hookit Taps Growing Market, Four Under the Radar Deals, & More San Diego BizTech News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup<\/a>, Health IT<\/a>, Software<\/a><\/div>\n

\t\tLuke Timmerman wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week’s tech news was dominated by a certain new device from Apple, but we found quite a few other things to write about on the San Diego tech scene.<\/p>\n

—Our in-house gadgetphile, Wade Roush, previewed the market introduction of Apple’s iPad<\/strong> with a survey of Xconomy readers<\/a>, and followed it up with a story about his victorious experience in buying one<\/a> on opening day. There are comments all over the map here on whether this new thing is revolutionary or evolutionary. I haven’t checked out the tool myself, but I will say that Jay Flatley, the CEO of San Diego-based genomics powerhouse Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN<\/a>), told me on Thursday that he was excited to get his iPad over the weekend. Flatley made a bold prediction that the iPad will be better for reading books than Amazon’s Kindle.<\/p>\n

—San Diego-based Hookit<\/strong>, a maker of social networking tools for action-sports players, has been on a torrid growth curve, according to this feature story from freelancer Nathan Bomey<\/a>. The growth is all the more impressive given how Hookit has been embroiled in a trademark dispute that could have caused serious trouble.<\/p>\n

—Anybody looking for the next big thing in San Diego 20 years from now ought to take a look at computational neuroscience<\/a>. That was one of the bits of advice we heard from legendary biotech entrepreneur Paul Schimmel<\/strong> of The Scripps Research Institute at Xconomy’s San Diego Life Sciences 2030 event last week.<\/p>\n

—Regular readers know we love to dig up news you can’t find anywhere else about San Diego’s innovation community, and here’s a good example<\/a>. We found four small financings of interesting local companies, with some help from our partner CB Insights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

—Denise offered up a timely profile of a San Diego company that is looking to seize on the trend toward more cost-effective healthcare. NextImage Medical<\/strong> is seeking to increase the efficiency of radiology exams<\/a>, which is part of what drives up the costs of worker’s compensation insurance in California.<\/p>\n

—We learned from scanning the SEC filings that IO Semiconductor<\/strong>, a San Diego fabless chip design startup, has raised $1 million in debt and equity-based funding<\/a>, out of a $14 million planned offering.<\/p>\n

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