{"id":524020,"date":"2010-04-12T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=72907"},"modified":"2010-04-12T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T12:40:46","slug":"qlipso-acquires-veoh-networks-v-vehicle-ousts-founding-ceo-local-technology-clusters-converge-on-bioinformatics-more-san-diego-biztech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524020","title":{"rendered":"Qlipso Acquires Veoh Networks, V-Vehicle Ousts Founding CEO, Local Technology Clusters Converge on Bioinformatics, & More San Diego BizTech News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup<\/a>, cleantech<\/a>, IT<\/a><\/div>\n

\t\tBruce V. Bigelow wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n

With all the life sciences news in San Diego last week, it would be understandable if you thought there was no high-tech news to be had. A simpler explanation, though, is that I was out of the country. So I cast the net a little beyond Xconomy’s pages for this summary.<\/p>\n

—A shakeup at San Diego’s V-Vehicle occurred after the U.S. Department of Energy rejected the startup automaker’s request for more than $321 million in loans<\/a>. Chairman Ray Lane of the famed VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers stepped in as CEO, replacing founding CEO Frank Verasano<\/a>. With Lane in Northern California and V-Vehicle’s planned production facility in northeastern Louisiana, it seems unlikely the company’s headquarters will remain in San Diego much longer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—Aptera Motors, the Carlsbad, CA-based startup developing a two-door, three-wheel electric vehicle, has been seeking a production partner in China, according to the China Car Times<\/a>. Aptera CEO Paul Wilbur later said the Aptera model to be built in China will be sold in China<\/a>. Wilbur says, “We have no plans to build U.S. vehicles in China.”<\/p>\n

—Falling somewhere between healthcare and information technology, bioinformatics is an emerging field that represents new opportunities for San Diego’s high-tech community. UCSD’s new chief of biomedical informatics, Lucila Ohno-Machada, told Denise that San Diego has all the ingredients necessary to become the country’s No. 1 center for bioinformatic<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

—What’s left of San Diego’s Veoh Networks was acquired by Los Angeles-based 2Peer Ltd., which operates the Flash-based social video startup Qlipso<\/a>. The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog says 2Peer CEO Jon Goldman acquired Veoh just hours before its planned bankruptcy liquidation filing for less than $20 million<\/a>. Veoh had raised close to $70 million from its venture backers.<\/p>\n

—Ryan reported that a gold rush of sorts is underway as software companies develop technology to share medical images<\/a>. A case in point is eMix, a separate corporate entity created within San Diego-based DR Systems.<\/p>\n

—In an extensive review of Apple’s iPad, Xconomy’s early adopter (Wade) concluded that the hype was largely justified.<\/a> He found the electronic tablet is useful in a genuinely new way, and represents the beginning of the end of the mouse-and-keyboard era of personal computing. A few days later, however, Xconomy’s fearless leader (Bob), declared that the iPad won’t become a breakthrough success<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Roundup, cleantech, IT Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: With all the life sciences news in San Diego last week, it would be understandable if you thought there was no high-tech news to be had. A simpler explanation, though, is that I was out of the country. So I cast the net a little beyond Xconomy’s pages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-energy","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}