Qualcomm asked chip rival Intel if it would consider a sale By The New York Times News Service Syndicate September 20, 2024 at 5:57 p.m. Qualcomm has not yet made an official offer for Intel, and the obstacles to a...
Energy | Big battery storage project in Poway gets the final OK By Rob Nikolewski September 20, 2024 at 1:08 p.m. Some residents, worried about fire risk, wanted the Poway City Council to rescind approval of...
Technology | Qualcomm partners with company that sued Apple – and won – over its smartwatch technology By Natallie Rocha September 17, 2024 at 11:49 a.m. Qualcomm's expertise in chips will help power Masimo's smartwatches running on Google operating systems.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Do this right now if your Social Security number was snared by hackers By Roxana Popescu September 11, 2024 at 1:10 p.m. Follow these steps from San Diego experts to protect yourself after a data breach.
Energy | The great unknown: How will AI affect energy demand — and your utility bill — in California? By Rob Nikolewski September 4, 2024 at 7:50 p.m. Some predict artificial intelligence will revolutionize every facet of our lives. What will it mean...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | Developer retooling plan for Costa Verde Center near UTC By Jennifer Van Grove August 23, 2024 at 3:05 p.m. Life science real estate developer Alexandria has scrapped its plan for the shuttered strip mall...
Energy | Turning California’s oil fields into energy storage sites By Rob Nikolewski August 15, 2024 at 12:11 a.m. The big conversion: Turning California's depleted oil fields into geothermal power and storage sites
Business | How tech industry’s tumble cooled California’s economy By Jon Lansner July 23, 2024 at 11:44 a.m. The stall of one industry – creator of cutting-edge products and sky-high salaries – is...
Politics | Should San Diego County sue social media companies? Supervisors are split, for now By Jerry Wu July 18, 2024 at 11:23 a.m. The board rejected Tuesday a proposal to explore suing social media companies over their platforms’...
Intuit lays off 215 San Diego employees as it pivots to AI investments By Natallie Rocha July 21, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. Intuit is leaning into artificial intelligence resulting in 1,800 North America layoffs.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | San Diego’s Dexcom cuts 500 jobs, moves manufacturing to Arizona By Natallie Rocha June 26, 2024 at 4:50 p.m. Dexcom is converting its San Diego manufacturing operations to research and development lab space.
Business | San Diego biotech making melanoma skin patch files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy By Natallie Rocha June 20, 2024 at 6:31 a.m. While DermTech's melanoma test has gained insurance coverage with many groups, including Medicare, it has...
San Diego’s life science sector contributed $56.6B to the regional economy, despite tight financing and layoffs By Natallie Rocha June 17, 2024 at 2:46 p.m. Hiring in San Diego’s life science sector was down last year as a result of...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Startup gets funding for drug that tackles overeating By Natallie Rocha June 14, 2024 at 6:51 p.m. Aardvark Therapeutics raised $85 million for its obesity-related drug and to support a potential IPO...
Business | San Diego COVID-19 test maker Cue Health files for bankruptcy following company closure By Natallie Rocha June 16, 2024 at 11:17 a.m. Cue Health filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy shortly after the abrupt shutdown and layoff of...
Business | San Diego battery technology startup moves into the fast lane with a partnership with Porsche subsidiary By Rob Nikolewski June 6, 2024 at 2:16 p.m. A San Diego tech company that specializes in improving battery performance has just announced a...
Business | San Diego gene-sequencer Illumina spins off blood testing startup Grail – for the second time By Natallie Rocha June 5, 2024 at 1:09 a.m. San Diego gene-sequencing giant Illumina said Monday that its board approved the spinoff of early...
Business | OpenAI starts training a new AI model to power ChatGPT By San Diego Union-Tribune May 28, 2024 at 1:58 p.m. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI said Tuesday that it has started training its newest AI model...
Business | San Diego’s life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space By Natallie Rocha June 16, 2024 at 11:11 a.m. San Diego's labs and life science offices hit record vacancy this year.
Business | Upgrades in place, San Diego’s nuclear fusion facility is back up and running By Rob Nikolewski May 24, 2024 at 7:07 p.m. The DIII-D National Fusion Facility, located on the San Diego campus of General Atomics, is...
Business | San Diego COVID-19 test maker Cue Health – once worth $2.3B – lays off entire company and shuts down By Natallie Rocha May 23, 2024 at 6:35 p.m. Cue Health, the once high-flying San Diego biotech supplying rapid COVID-19 test kits to the...
Business | Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its San Diego office By Natallie Rocha June 10, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. Pharmaceutical giant Takeda is shutting down its research and development hub in San Diego that...
Business | San Diego’s Cue Health had the first FDA-approved home COVID-19 test. Now the agency says to throw them out. By Natallie Rocha May 17, 2024 at 1:35 a.m. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told consumers Monday to throw out any at-home COVID-19...
News | San Diego will create a sprawling citywide network of electric vehicle chargers By David Garrick May 14, 2024 at 2:49 a.m. SAN DIEGO — Advice from San Diego's independent budget analyst prompted the City Council on Monday to...
Business | Illumina competitor Pacific Biosciences is closing its San Diego office, laying off workers By Natallie Rocha May 11, 2024 at 12:09 a.m. Genome sequencing company Pacific Biosciences, a competitor of Illumina, is shutting down its San Diego...
Business | After fall in demand for COVID-19 tests, San Diego’s QuidelOrtho to lay off 500 workers By Natallie Rocha May 10, 2024 at 12:58 a.m. QuidelOrtho, a local diagnostic company that makes at-home COVID-19 test kits, has a new CEO...
News | New device developed by UCSD could identify which babies will struggle with breastfeeding By Paul Sisson May 7, 2024 at 7:56 p.m. Doctors traditionally use a finger to gauge how well a baby suckles, but researchers at...
Things to do | Hundreds of hotel, service workers rally in downtown San Diego for $25-an-hour minimum wage By Lori Weisberg May 2, 2024 at 1:14 a.m. Hundreds of lower paid service workers gathered in downtown San Diego on Wednesday afternoon to...
Business | San Diego AI startup and Atlas Van Lines team up to make moving less painful By Roxana Popescu April 26, 2024 at 6:38 p.m. Moving can be such a pain. A San Diego AI startup company just announced a...
Business | Hiring is hot for government and health care jobs. These sectors boosted San Diego’s employment gains By Natallie Rocha April 22, 2024 at 6:46 p.m. Local government hiring fueled San Diego County's job growth last month and nudged the unemployment...
Business | San Diego biotech company making melanoma test patch cuts 56% of its workforce By Natallie Rocha April 26, 2024 at 1:22 a.m. DermTech, the San Diego-based company that developed a noninvasive skin sticker to detect melanoma, is...
Business | Illumina gets two new executives as the San Diego biotech revamps its C-suite By Natallie Rocha April 10, 2024 at 11:26 p.m. Illumina is getting a new chief financial officer, the latest major leadership change within the...
Business | Zap! Carlsbad startup touts its new battery technology as a fast-charging ‘universal adapter’ By Rob Nikolewski April 4, 2024 at 10:15 p.m. Officials at a startup based in Carlsbad expect a battery technology they have engineered will...
Business | San Diego biotech news: Veteran life science execs raise $150M for cancer drug targeting hard-to-treat tumors By Natallie Rocha March 30, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Veteran life science execs lead new company to big fundraising roundThe day that Athena Countouriotis,...
Business | Why this battery storage plant between Escondido and San Marcos has some residents upset By Rob Nikolewski March 29, 2024 at 9:34 p.m. A renewable energy company that wants to construct a battery storage project between San Marcos...
Things to do | Hiring in San Diego’s high wage jobs, tourism helps keep unemployment rate flat By Natallie Rocha March 22, 2024 at 11:50 p.m. San Diego’s unemployment rate held steady in February with modest job gains in the region’s...
Business | San Diego Community Power signs agreement for big energy storage project that could power 45,000 homes By Rob Nikolewski March 21, 2024 at 7:48 p.m. San Diego Community Power just added another battery storage facility to its roster of energy...
Business | Super Falcon By Staff Report March 19, 2024 at 10:21 p.m. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:28 p.m. Monday....
Business | San Diego EV charging company completes $1 million deal with the U.K.’s defense ministry By Rob Nikolewski March 13, 2024 at 11:01 p.m. Beam Global, a San Diego-based company that specializes in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, just completed...
Business | San Diego unemployment rate hits highest level since 2021 By Natallie Rocha March 8, 2024 at 11:07 p.m. San Diego County's jobless rate rose to its highest level since 2021 as retail, tourism...
Things to do | AI-narrated books are here. Are humans out of a job? This San Diego startup has a solution. By Roxana Popescu March 9, 2024 at 1:15 a.m. If you've listened to an audiobook or a narrated news article in the past year...
Local News | Volcanic explosions, lava lamps and robots entice families at San Diego’s annual science expo By Lori Weisberg March 3, 2024 at 1:49 a.m. SAN DIEGO — Periodic downpours Saturday were no match for ice cold volcanic eruptions, whimsical robots, and...
Business | Carlsbad’s Viasat is betting on space satellites so you don’t drop texts. How would that work? By Natallie Rocha February 15, 2024 at 8:28 p.m. A growing field of technology companies will spend millions of dollars this year on space...
Business | DermTech, the San Diego biotech making a skin-cancer detecting patch, cuts 15% of workforce By Natallie Rocha February 6, 2024 at 10:43 p.m. DermTech, a San Diego biotechnology company that developed a noninvasive melanoma test, is reducing its...
Business | Illumina lays off 111 workers in San Diego By Natallie Rocha February 1, 2024 at 11:37 p.m. Illumina, the leader in DNA-sequencing technology, is laying off 111 people at its San Diego...
Business | San Diego sees fewer startup deals in 2023 as investors write larger checks for select companies By Natallie Rocha February 1, 2024 at 9:20 p.m. Venture capitalists wrote bigger checks to fewer San Diego startups last year, leading to the...
Business | San Diego spine tech company NuVasive lays off 157 workers By Natallie Rocha January 26, 2024 at 11:04 p.m. Local medical technology firm NuVasive laid off 157 workers in San Diego following the completion...
Sports | Court order stops San Diego-based TuSimple from sharing trade secrets with China By Natallie Rocha January 25, 2024 at 11:48 p.m. A federal judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order to prevent leaders at TuSimple,...
Things to do | TwitchCon’s thousands of gamers returning to San Diego this year – plus four more years By Lori Weisberg January 23, 2024 at 1:45 p.m. TwitchCon, the popular live streaming conference that was last here in 2022, is returning after...
Business | Gilead beat out Amazon for 27 acres in Oceanside. Now it is scrapping its development plans. By Natallie Rocha January 18, 2024 at 12:50 a.m. Gilead Sciences will not be moving forward with expansion plans to develop 27 acres of...
Business | Illumina and the San Diego Zoo are sequencing koala genomes to investigate disease By Natallie Rocha January 17, 2024 at 3:42 a.m. Two world-class institutions that call San Diego home have joined forces on an investigation into...
Business | How SDG&E and California’s power grid operator try to stay one step ahead of cyberattacks By Rob Nikolewski January 20, 2024 at 9:41 p.m. It's the nightmare scenario that utilities and grid operators fear the most: A cyberattack that...
Business | Apple plans to move 121 jobs from San Diego to Texas By Natallie Rocha January 16, 2024 at 12:17 a.m. Apple has issued an ultimatum of sorts to part of its San Diego workforce. The...
Things to do | Housing, energy bills, downtown projects: San Diego business stories to watch in 2024 By Staff Report December 28, 2023 at 2:17 a.m. These are some of the key business stories to watch in San Diego County in...
Business | Investor Carl Icahn waging another proxy battle over Illumina’s failed acquisition of Grail By Natallie Rocha December 21, 2023 at 12:46 a.m. Less than 24 hours after biotech giant Illumina said it would divest early cancer detection...
Things to do | Quiz: Test your knowledge of San Diego business news in 2023 By Staff Report December 22, 2023 at 11:27 p.m. Welcome to the U-T business quiz of the year. Test how closely you have followed...
Business | At climate conference, Kerry announces U.S. efforts to advance nuclear fusion By Staff Report December 6, 2023 at 8:27 p.m. The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear...
Business | San Diego-based self-driving truck company TuSimple shuts down U.S. operations, lays off 150 By Natallie Rocha December 6, 2023 at 4:24 a.m. It’s official: San Diego’s self-driving truck company, TuSimple, is shutting down its U.S. operations and...
Business | San Diego sleep apnea device maker ResMed cuts workforce, restructures executive team By Natallie Rocha December 5, 2023 at 1:56 a.m. Local medical device maker ResMed is adjusting its executive leadership assignments and cutting back its...
Business | Whirring blue robots, automated arms: a first peek inside Amazon’s new San Diego center By Roxana Popescu December 1, 2023 at 5:05 p.m. Every week 2 million packages enter and exit Amazon's sorting facility in Otay Mesa. Within...
Business | Why do women still lag behind men in pay and equity in the STEM workforce? By Barbara Bry November 13, 2023 at 11:01 a.m. Twenty-five years ago, a small group of San Diego women had a radical idea. What...
Business | Qualcomm ends partnership to offer emergency satellite texting for Android phones By Natallie Rocha November 11, 2023 at 3:19 a.m. Less than a year after Qualcomm announced a partnership that would allow it to develop...
Business | San Diego startup deals hit a 5-year low By Natallie Rocha November 4, 2023 at 1:04 a.m. Startups in San Diego County raised about $1.14 billion during the third quarter ending Sept....
Business | Viasat cuts global workforce by 10 percent, including jobs in Carlsbad By Natallie Rocha November 3, 2023 at 2:36 a.m. Viasat is cutting its global workforce by 10 percent in an effort to streamline operations...
Business | Startup partnership gives Sharp HealthCare a first look at next-generation medical technology By Natallie Rocha October 26, 2023 at 12:16 a.m. Sharp HealthCare is partnering with local incubator EvoNexus to help evaluate cutting-edge medical technology coming...
Business | Forget Silicon Valley – these Japanese life science firms came to San Diego to study startups By Natallie Rocha October 17, 2023 at 4:38 p.m. For 19 years, Takehito Matsuba worked for two big corporations in Tokyo — Mitsubishi and...
Business | Carlsbad’s Viasat will not replace its $700M satellite that malfunctioned. So, what now? By Natallie Rocha October 13, 2023 at 1:18 a.m. Carlsbad-based Viasat said Thursday it will submit a $420 million insurance claim for its $700...
Business | Qualcomm cuts 1,064 jobs in San Diego By Natallie Rocha October 13, 2023 at 1:08 a.m. Qualcomm, San Diego’s largest technology company, is laying off 1,064 employees in San Diego as...
Business | Ex-Qualcomm employee pleads guilty in $150M scheme to defraud tech giant By Natallie Rocha October 6, 2023 at 7:49 p.m. A San Diego man pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday for his role in...
Business | Uber rolls out package return service in San Diego so you don’t have to go to the post office By Natallie Rocha October 4, 2023 at 11:56 a.m. Uber is now offering a feature in its app that returns packages to the post...
Business | L3 Harris bought this Viasat unit for $2B. Now, it’s cutting jobs and closing Carlsbad facility By Natallie Rocha September 29, 2023 at 7:41 p.m. Less than a year after Carlsbad's Viasat struck a $1.96 billion deal to sell off...
News | San Diego officials say hard-won surveillance oversight law needs more fixes By Lyndsay Winkley September 19, 2023 at 1:02 p.m. SAN DIEGO — A hard-won ordinance that brought oversight to San Diego's many surveillance technologies needs critical...
News | STEAM Smart: Girls pushed toward careers in science, technology, engineering and math By Jeff McDonald September 11, 2023 at 9:25 p.m. Navigating the teen years is almost never easy. It can be even more daunting for...
Business | Former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs tapped to lead satellite company that helps power Apple iPhones By Natallie Rocha August 31, 2023 at 2:45 a.m. Paul Jacobs, the former CEO and chairman of San Diego-based chipmaker Qualcomm, was tapped to...
Sports | Meet Monte, the robot that paints yard lines and San Diego State logos on the Snapdragon Stadium turf By Kirk Kenney August 25, 2023 at 6:18 p.m. Monte moved back and forth across the Snapdragon Stadium turf on Thursday, lining the football...
Business | San Diego’s Illumina discloses new SEC investigation into its $7.1B acquisition of Grail By Natallie Rocha August 14, 2023 at 10:02 p.m. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the $7.1 billion acquisition of Grail, a...
Business | Nuclear fusion milestone repeated; San Diego’s General Atomics with the assist By Rob Nikolewski August 14, 2023 at 9:16 p.m. About eight months after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created "net energy" in a nuclear...
Business | Former startup CEO pleads guilty to conning San Diego’s Qualcomm in $150M fraud scheme By Natallie Rocha August 14, 2023 at 5:31 p.m. One of the architects of a scheme to defraud more than $150 million from San...
Business | Carlsbad’s Viasat still can’t say what’s wrong with its $700M Internet satellite By Natallie Rocha August 10, 2023 at 7:47 p.m. Viasat told investors Wednesday that it is continuing to investigate what happened to the antenna...
Business | 12-year-old amputee surfs again with ‘water leg’ from this San Diego company By Natallie Rocha August 3, 2023 at 5:55 p.m. In June, Jonah Villamil hopped on a surfboard with two legs for the first time...
News | San Diego approves 35 percent hike in city computer costs in new three-year pact with Microsoft, Dell By David Garrick August 1, 2023 at 10:44 p.m. SAN DIEGO — San Diego agreed Tuesday to pay 35 percent more per year for citywide use...
Business | New battery storage system in Chula Vista aims to reduce blackouts By Rob Nikolewski August 2, 2023 at 7:09 a.m. The battery boom continues in the San Diego region, with an energy storage project unveiled...
Things to do | San Diego’s unemployment rate ticks higher in June despite strong tourism hiring trend By Mike Freeman July 22, 2023 at 1:32 a.m. San Diego County employers added 6,900 jobs in June as the region’s economy continues to...
Things to do | Mystery beer on tap at Stone Brewing’s San Diego bistros foreshadows multi-million-dollar expansion By Mike Freeman July 21, 2023 at 12:32 a.m. At Stone Brewing’s bistros in Escondido and Liberty Station, there’s a mystery beer on tap....
Business | San Diego’s Travere Therapeutics to sell a piece of its liver disorder drug portfolio for $445M By Mike Freeman July 19, 2023 at 5:28 p.m. San Diego’s Travere Therapeutics has inked a $445 million deal to sell part of its...
Business | San Diego biotech that’s trying to cure hard-to-treat diseases is acquired for $500M By Mike Freeman July 18, 2023 at 3:03 a.m. San Diego startup DTx Pharma, which is developing technology for delivering RNA-based therapies to hard-to-treat...
Things to do | After 127 years, craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing shuts its doors By Mike Freeman July 14, 2023 at 12:08 a.m. Iconic San Francisco beer maker Anchor Brewing Co. has shut down production, ending a 127-year...
Business | Carlsbad’s Viasat reveals a problem with recently launched, terabit-class Internet satellite By Mike Freeman July 13, 2023 at 10:55 p.m. Carlsbad-based Viasat disclosed that its newly launched ViaSat-3 Americas satellite has a problem with deployment...
Business | Qualcomm to open first facility in Tijuana By Mike Freeman July 13, 2023 at 6:58 a.m. Qualcomm plans to open its first satellite facility in Tijuana this fall, with a focus...
Business | San Diego’s Illumina hit with hefty $476 million fine by European regulators over Grail merger By Mike Freeman July 12, 2023 at 10:05 p.m. Illumina said it would appeal a $476 million fine levied Wednesday by the European Union...
Business | San Diego goes big on microgrids By Rob Nikolewski July 8, 2023 at 12:51 a.m. The city of San Diego is about to join the microgrid movement. The first of...
Business | San Diego’s DermTech trims staff to conserve cash as it pushes scalpel-free diagnostic test for melanoma By Mike Freeman July 5, 2023 at 11:17 p.m. San Diego’s DermTech has cut about 40 jobs and shelved certain research programs to focus...
Sports | Fox 5 KSWB-TV blocked for DirecTV/U-verse subscribers as part of nationwide re-transmission dispute By Mike Freeman July 4, 2023 at 12:19 a.m. San Diego’s Fox 5 KSWB-TV has been blocked from DirecTV and U-verse subscribers — at...
Business | San Diego startups show off a deep-sea camera, wireless streaming via touch By Mike Freeman April 23, 2024 at 12:19 a.m. DeepWater Exploration rolled out a compact, rugged camera last year capable of delivering non-distorted imagery...
Local News | To fight its hiring woes, the sheriff wanted to offer employees child care help. So it turned to this San Diego tech startup By Emily Alvarenga July 23, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. To help its employees navigate the shortage of affordable child care, the Sheriff’s Department is...
Business | San Diego company’s new wearable device will help diabetics eat right, lose weight By Mike Freeman July 1, 2023 at 2:23 a.m. San Diego’s Dexcom, a maker of continuous glucose monitors, laid out plans for a new...
Business | Troubled San Diego self-driving truck firm TuSimple may sell its U.S. operations By Natallie Rocha June 30, 2023 at 12:19 a.m. Months after slashing its workforce and terminating its CEO San Diego self-driving truck company TuSimple...
News | S.D. County receives grant to expand internet access By City News Service June 30, 2023 at 9:33 p.m. San Diego County will use a $500,000 federal grant to help more residents access the...
Business | Illumina begins cutting jobs amid turmoil, plans to reduce office space in San Diego By Mike Freeman June 27, 2023 at 8:56 p.m. Illumina, the market leader in DNA sequencing equipment, said Monday that it has begun layoffs...
News | San Diego callers are left hanging with lousy customer service. A fix is years away, report says By David Garrick June 26, 2023 at 1:18 a.m. SAN DIEGO — San Diego residents frustrated with waiting on hold for hours with questions about water...