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Local Startup Founded in 2000 Awarded SBIR Contracts from USDOE in the Amount of $2 Million

July 31, 2012 in Articles, Local Companies, News Releases, Technology, Technology Business Development, Tucson, Tucson Tech by Bob Hagen

Tucson tech: Firm gets $2 million contracts for special chips

Ridgetop’s radiation-hardened micro-device being developed for particle accelerators

July 31, 2012  • David Wichner Arizona Daily Star

A Tucson-area company that has long specialized in predicting failure is prognosticating success with technology to help scientists unlock the secret life of atoms.

Ridgetop Group recently won two Small Business Innovation Research contracts worth $1 million each from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop analog-to-digital signal processor chips for particle accelerators used in research.

Particle accelerators are used by physicists to smash sub-atomic particles together to learn about the elemental building blocks of matter – sometimes discovering whole new classes of particles in the process.



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Local Startup in 1979 Sold to Roper Industries for $1.42 Billion

July 31, 2012 in Articles, IT, Local Companies, News Releases, Technology, Technology Business Development, Tucson, Tucson Tech by Bob Hagen

Tucson software firm sold for $1.4 billion

Fla.-based Roper buys Sunquest in 1 of biggest merger deals here

July 21, 2012 - Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star

In a $1.42 billion deal, Roper Industries has bought Tucson medical software developer Sunquest Information Systems Inc.

The all-cash merger announced Monday includes cash tax benefits totaling $25 million.

The deal is believed to be among the highest dollar-figure mergers in Tucson-area history, ranking alongside Roche Holding AG’s $3.4 billion purchase of Oro Valley’s Ventana Medical Systems in 2008 and Texas Instruments’ $7.6 billion purchase of Burr-Brown Corp. in 2000.



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OV Exploring Ways to Facilitate Development & Growth of its Biotech Industry

July 29, 2012 in Articles, Bioindustry, Oro Valley, Technology, Technology Business Development by Bob Hagen

Oro Valley looks to streamline process to attract new biotechs

Inside Tucson Business

By Patrick McNamara | Posted: Friday, July 27, 2012 12:15 am

With an eye toward expanding its cluster of medical-research firms, Oro Valley officials have begun discussions about ways to streamline the development process to attract more biotech companies.

“We’re trying to create our own success and our own destiny,” said Oro Valley Mayor Satish Hiremath.

The crux of the plan, which in its early stages has the support of the town council, would include amending the zoning code to establish an economic expansion zone in one area of Rancho Vistoso in northern Oro Valley.



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Raytheon Awarded $925 Million SM-3 Missile Contract with Work to be Performed at RMS Facility in Tucson

July 26, 2012 in Aerospace, Articles, Raytheon Missile Systems, Technology, Tucson, Tucson Tech by Bob Hagen

Raytheon wins $925 million missile deal

Contract now totals more than $1.5 billion for latest in SM-3 line

13 HOURS AGO  •  DAVID WICHNER ARIZONA DAILY STAR

July 26,  2012

Despite looming defense budget cuts, Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems keeps winning funding for its missile-defense programs.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded the company a five-year, $925 million contract to continue development of a new ship-based missile interceptor with Japan.

The contract increases the total value of work on the the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile to more than $1.5 billion, according to the Pentagon.



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Hackathon Update #1: The Theme is Mobile!

July 25, 2012 in Uncategorized by chrishill

The hackathon is fast approaching, and we are working to make this a great event. We have been talking to a lot of people and listening to what they have to say. There were a couple points that have been recurring: structure and theme. People felt the event seemed a bit too freeform. Fear not!

A Mobile Theme

Based on the projects and current buzz, we’ve decided on a theme of ‘mobile’. That can be a mobile app, an html5 game, or many other possibilities. Take a Raspberry Pi and put it on an RC car. Use PhoneGap to port a website into something native.

Meeting Up

Regardless of what you are doing, its important that you’re having fun doing it with the Tucson developer community.  And we want to make sure that you’re able to meet with other devs and form solid teams. Part of the structure of the event will be team building and idea development. In the beginning of the hackathon we will all spend some time getting to know each other’s skills and ideas.



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UA Reports an Increase in Tech Transfer Activity for Its FY 2011/2012

July 25, 2012 in Articles, Technology, Technology Business Development, Tucson, Tucson Tech, UA OTT by Bob Hagen

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Report to ABOR: UA Excels at Technology Transfer

By Jennifer Fitzenberger, June 14, 2012

The UA reported an increase in technology transfer activity in fiscal year 2011.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Arizona University System met the majority of its research goals in fiscal year 2011, excelling in four categories – invention disclosures, U.S. patents issued, intellectual property income and start-up companies – officials told the Arizona Board of Regents on June 14.

The news came during an update from the enterprise executive committee on the Arizona Higher Education Enterprise plan, designed to realign and strengthen the state university system.

The enterprise report, presented to the regents in 2010, outlines priorities and important discussion areas for realigning the system in a way that each state university can better focus its individual mission to benefit the system as a whole.’



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Temptronics engineers climate-controlled office chair

July 24, 2012 in Desert Angels by Desert Angels

Temptronics engineers climate-controlled office chair

Temptronics, a Desert Angels portfolio company, discusses their first commercial product and future avenues for growth in this article from Inside Tucson Business:

Temptronics engineers climate-controlled office chair

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Tempronics engineers climate-controlled office chair

July 24, 2012 in Desert Angels, Funded Companies, Press by Desert Angels

Tempronics, a Desert Angels portfolio company, discusses their first commercial product and future avenues for growth in this article from Inside Tucson Business:

Tempronics engineers climate-controlled office chair

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Sanofi’s Drug Research Center in Oro Valley was Formed as a Startup in 1990 by a UA Chemistry Professor & Several Cancer Center Researchers

July 24, 2012 in Articles, Bioindustry, Technology, Tucson, Tucson Tech by Bob Hagen

Tucson tech: Drugmaker sifts small molecules to find potential new medicines

July 24, 2012

13 HOURS AGO  •  DAVID WICHNER ARIZONA DAILY STAR

The Tucson area’s biotech industry has yet to produce a new, billion-dollar blockbuster drug.

But the way things are going at French drug giant Sanofi’s research center in Oro Valley, it may only be a matter of time.

Using technology developed by University of Arizona scientists more than 20 years ago, about 80 scientists are busy sifting through libraries of millions of druglike molecules, synthesizing molecules with promise, analyzing them and shipping them off to Sanofi drug centers worldwide.



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Startup Tucson Hackathon – August 10th-11th at Spoke6

July 24, 2012 in Featured, Hackathon, Special Events, Spoke6, Startup Tucson, Startup Weekend 2012 by Startup Tucson

A Startup Weekend Tucson Pre-event - August 10th-11th

Join us Friday through Saturday for a code writing marathon in Tucson!
Form a team, pick a category, then code something new and exciting in 24 hours to win prizes and fame!

What’s it all about?

It’s about meeting and getting to know more of the local Tucson tech community while doing something fun! The Interweb is amazing, but it can’t compare to hanging out in person with a group of like-minded people. A hackathon is an exciting, fast pasted, stimulating event where you can make a crazy cool idea into something real!

What can you do in 24 hours?

Form a team of at least 2 people (must be present to win) and create something from start to finish. You could build a complete webapp, or a cool script, or a plugin/theme or feature for a larger application. You don’t have to create something huge, but finish it and have fun.



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