Tuesday, August 10, 2004


Neostem Appoints VP
Agoura Hills-based NeoStem (www.neostem.com) announced that it has added Brad Maroni as Vice President of Clinical Development. Dr. Maroni was previously VP of Clinical Research at Amgen. Neostem is developing adult stem cell therapeutics, targeted at cancer and heart disease. Dr. Maroni was Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta.
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CMS Products Ships New Removable Drive System
Costa Mesa-based CMS Products announced that it is shipping its newest removable hard drive systems for backup and restore. The company's new ABSplus product line provides up to 100 Gigabytes of storage capacity, in a two-and-a-half inch package, with a three year warranty. The new product line comes bundled with CMS Products' BounceBack software, which creates a fully bootable backup of any notebook, desktop, or Tablet PC. The ABSplus products support USB2.0, PCMCIA or FireWire interfaces
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Bluebeam Launches CAD Conversion Program
Pasadena-based Bluebeam Software (www.bluebeam.com) has launched Bluebeam Pushbutton Plus, a new solution for converting CAD and Windows files to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, BMP and more. The new solution focuses on architects and engineers who need to communicate their designs with clients. The new solution also adds password protection to PDF files, annotation for PDF files, and continues to integrate with AutoCad drawing and layout names. Bluebeam focuses on specialized solutions for creating linked PDF (More info...)
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Rockwell Scientific, UCSB Demo InP Technology
Thousand Oaks-based Rockwell Scientific Company (www.rockwellscientific.com), the University of California Santa Barbara, IQE and the Mayo Clinic announced that they have demonstrated a high speed Indium Phosphide circuit as part of a milestone in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program. The sub-micron scaled Indium Phosphide Double Heterojunction Bipolar Technology (InP DHBT) is part of a program to advance mixed-signal circuit applications, for use in in-flight SATCOM links (More info...)
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Verari Ships 64-bit Graphics Workstation
San Diego-based Verari Systems (www.verari.com) has introduced a new dual processor graphic workstation at SIGGRAPH. The developer of blade computing systems's new NemeSys X64 dual processor provides two 64-bit Intel Xeon processors at 3.6 Ghz, and Intel Extended Memory 64 technology. It also incorporates the latest NVIDIA PCI-Express graphics card. The new system if designed for graphics and computation applications, and including game development, frame rendering, and scientific computing appl (More info...)
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ValueClick Completes Pricerunner Acquisition
Westlake Village-based ValueClick (www.valueclick.com) announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pricerunner AB, an online comparison shopping service. The acquisition is worth $29.0M in cash and stock. Pricerunner provides comparison shopping in the UK and Sweden, with plans to expand in France and Germany. According to the company, Pricerunner generated revenues of $3.6M for the six month period ending April 30, 2004, and has about $2.5M in cash.
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