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ViaSat Unveils Faster Satellite Broadband Technology

Juha-Pekka Tikka Satellite-based Internet service targeting rural communities and motorists is starting to get up to speed. Carlsbad, CA-based ViaSat (Nasdaq: VSAT) says it  demonstrated its...

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ViaSat Pays $568M to Buy WildBlue and Connect Its Satellite With High-Speed...

Bruce V. Bigelow Satellite Communications specialist ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) says it is buying WildBlue Communications, a suburban Denver company that provides high-speed Internet access to mostly...

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Larry Smarr on the Internet, Past and Future; ViaSat Acquiring WildBlue...

Bruce V. Bigelow San Diego’s biztech news was tilted heavily toward the Internet last week, anchored by two in-depth stories about the Internet and Larry Smarr, the director of the California...

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DivX Buyout Anticipates Boom in Internet TV, ViaSat Sees Big Bet Paying Off,...

Bruce V. Bigelow It was a short week, but we saw a spate of deals involving San Diego companies, beginning with the $323 million buyout of DivX, which could be the prelude to a coming boom in Internet...

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ViaSat’s Moore Discusses Future of Space-Based Internet Service, High-Tech...

Bruce V. Bigelow Last week’s tech industry news underscored the diversity of innovation in the San Diego area. We’ve got it all wrapped up for you here, from satellite-based Internet service to...

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Qualcomm Acquires Video Technologies, State Senate Blocks Brown’s Job...

Bruce V. Bigelow The Labor Day holiday made for a short week of technology news, but we’ve labored to pull it all together for you here. —Underscoring the growing importance of mobile video, San...

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ViaSat Launches Satellite in One Giant Leap for High-Capacity Internet

Bruce V. Bigelow [Updated 10/20/11 12:45 pm, with ViaSat announcing successful launch.] Carlsbad, CA-based ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT) says today that yesterday’s launch of its ViaSat-1 satellite was...

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ViaSat’s High-Capacity Satellite Nears Start of Commercial Operations

Bruce V. Bigelow A new kind of countdown has begun. Carlsbad, CA-based ViaSat (NASDAQ: VSAT) says it recently transmitted the first test data to ViaSat-1, the highest capacity communications satellite...

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Gates Backs Intellectual Ventures Spinout: Antenna Maker Kymeta

Curt Woodward Updated 11:20 am, see final paragraph Intellectual Ventures, the patent-licensing firm headed by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has spun out a new company that...

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Wisconsin Roundup: Startup Weekend, Epic Systems, Johnson Controls

Jeff Engel A few notable news items from Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community over the last week: —The first Startup Weekend was held in the Green Bay area. About 45 people participated, forming...

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Colorado Tech Roundup: Gnip’s $134M Price Tag and a Satellite Launch

Michael Davidson Here is a quick roundup of some news from Colorado startups, tech, and aerospace companies, featuring Gnip, a trio of Colorado’s aerospace leaders, and a few recent venture capital...

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Blockchain, Fashion, Rockets, & More: Austin A-List Awards 2016

View the Slideshow Austin—From a company developing rockets that can blast satellites into space to a business that decodes your dog’s genome, twelve local companies were honored this week as A-List...

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Xenex CEO Miller Starts Tectonic Ventures With Boston Investor

San Antonio—Texas entrepreneur Morris Miller has created a new venture capital firm, Tectonic Ventures, with a Boston-based financier who has invested in at least two of Miller’s companies. Newton,...

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Dropped Call? San Antonio’s Carnegie Technologies May Have An Answer

San Antonio — Like many in this tech-addicted world, I often fill the time I spend walking from my home to point B by reading e-mails or making a call. But that is inevitably interrupted, albeit...

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Xenex Gets $38M From Essex Woodlands, Others for Germ-Zapping Robots

San Antonio — Xenex Disinfection Services, the maker of a robot that rids hospital rooms of tiny bacteria and viruses that can potentially cause deadly infections, has raised $38 million of venture...

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A.I.’s Role In Agriculture Comes Into Focus With Imaging Analysis

The imaging technologies scanning farms today trace their roots to the space race. In 1965, the U.S. Geological Survey proposed using satellites to observe the planet. Seven years later, NASA launched...

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Xenex Adds $4.8M for Hospital Trial Program of Germ-Zapping Robots

San Antonio — [Corrected 10/9/18, 4:19 p.m. See below.] Xenex Disinfection Systems has raised a $4.8 million round of debt funding to pay for a program that lets hospitals and other healthcare...

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Boston Tech Watch: Indigo Ag, GE, Algo Capital, Solo.io, Cybric

Venture capital deals, acquisitions, and spin-offs made up much of this week’s Boston technology news.—Boston-based agtech startup Indigo Ag has acquired TellusLabs, an A.I. satellite technology...

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Slingshot Adds $5M for Software That Monitors Disasters, Defense

Austin—Slingshot Aerospace has raised $5 million in additional seed funding led by its previous investor ATX Seed Partners, which gave the company $3.25 million in a seed round in December 2017. The...

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