Recently added articles from San Diego Business Journal:
Biotechs weigh options as IPO market hints at rebound: virtual, low-overhead business model offers promise for firms.(initial public offering)
Oct 19, 2009; ... When prospects for raising money on the public markets dimmed late last year, San Diego biotech Phenomix pulled its planned $86.25 million initial public offering. Now armed with what CEO Laura Shawver calls the "commercial oomph" to market its late-stage diabetes drug ...
Getting more defensive: defense industry provides bright spot in region's dark employment picture.(LABOR)(Statistical data)
Oct 19, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] San Diego County's jobs picture looks bleak these days with an unemployment rate in double digits--unseen since the early 1980s--but the defense sector is bucking the trend. General Atomics, which makes the unmanned drones used extensively in ...
Fans demand it: user participation site helps make horror flick a hit.
Oct 19, 2009; ... Suddenly, San Diego is snatching a bit of tinsel from Tinseltown. A San Diego Web-based event promotion site is playing a key role in helping transform a micro-budget horror flick made by an amateur director at his Rancho Penasquitos home into the hit movie of the fall season. ...
Sony reads between lines on e-books: new editions coming online.(TECHNOLOGY)
Oct 19, 2009; ... Sony Electronics is on course to further transform the economics of book sales. The San Diego-based manufacturer is making bold maneuvers to turn readers on to its growing line of eReaders, also known as e-books or digital books. It has launched a pricey Hollywood TV ad campaign ...
Does the name Dominelli ring a bell?(SDBJ INSIDER)(briefs)(J. David Dominelli)(The San Diego Union-Tribane)(Obituary)
Oct 19, 2009; ... Remember that 21-plus-acre plot for sale for $22 million high above La Jolla Village? Well, the seller is none other than David Copley, who sold The San Diego Union-Tribane to a Beverly Hills private equity firm, Platinum Equity, this year. To make an offer, head on over to Prudential ...