The American Red Cross has completed a new Disaster Operations Center, which was unveiled Thursday evening.

Qualcomm Inc., the world’s biggest maker of mobile-phone chips, rose to a 12-year high after the company increased sales and profit targets for the quarter and year on growing demand for smartphones.

A powerful 3-D animation tool created by Graham Johnson at The Scripps Research Institute has been selected as the winning video in the ninth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, according to a Thursday release.

If you have a Facebook page or friends that like to send you YouTube clips, chances are you've seen a few of this year's Super Bowl ads already.

Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of mobile-phone chips, forecast fiscal second-quarter sales that would be higher than analysts' predictions amid growing demand for smartphones.

RedIT, an information technology firm that specializes in cloud services, announced the second phase of its World Trade Drive facility expansion in Rancho Bernardo.

Qualcomm Inc. said the U.S. Justice Department has started a preliminary probe into the chipmaker's compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Five more partners have left the law firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP ahead of its planned March 1 merger with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.

Qualcomm Inc. raised its sales and profit expectations for this quarter and the year as the world’s biggest maker of mobile-phone chips benefits from growing demand for smartphones. The shares rose as much as 4.9 percent.

San Diego-based Atego, a software tools and professional services supplier for complex, mission- and safety-critical systems and software engineering, announced Wednesday that it secured an additional multi-million dollar equity investment.

As a third-year law student at University of San Diego School of Law, Kevin Kwon is getting an opportunity that most law students could never fathom -- academic credit for working in a San Diego law firm.

As San Diego’s medical and research industries continue to thrive, DPR Construction has been keeping pace as the go-to building team for many of the latest state-of-the-art health care projects in the region.

Locally based Assay Depot is offering the scientific industry a one-stop shop to find vendors and request bids, as well as software to manage the process. In essence, it provides supply chain management that the manufacturing industry has had access to for well over a decade but which is still fairly new for scientists at pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

A native Southern Californian who was raised in Los Angeles and Palmdale, Rick Valencia watched his mother launch her own real estate loan business while he was in high school.

MOGL, a customer loyalty program for restaurants that relies on psychology, technology and game mechanics rather than punch cards, coupons, QR codes or membership I.D.s, raised $10 million in its second round of funding, bringing the total amount of financing raised to $12.4 million, the company announced Tuesday.

Last week’s Sunday New York Times ran a front-page article titled “How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work.” The piece focuses on why Apple makes its iPhone in China. While the article covers an important subject that’s rarely discussed, it erred in focusing so much on it being a decision Apple made, as if it had other options. In fact, the issue about why so many manufacturing jobs have gone to China has been with us for decades and is not company specific, but an issue this country has failed to understand and do anything about.

January is already coming to a close and the local business community is embracing February with a wide range of events. Closing the month and opening February include presentations on green tax benefits and licensing fundamentals for the business executive, a roundtable discussion on technology and communication issues for contractors, the Eighth Annual Cal State San Marcos Report to the Community and the ULI San Diego/Tijuana San Diego Veteran’s Park overview.

Murrieta's State of the City address on March 1 will include booths that highlight various technology companies in the region, and Murrieta is seeking companies to participate.

Cellular phone carrier Leap Wireless International Inc. said Thursday that its chief financial officer, Walter Berger, will step down from his role to take up a position in the technology sector after the company files its annual report sometime next month.

San Diego-based antenna and radio frequency system solutions company Ethertronics said Thursday its EtherSmart LTE 1.0 Phone Adaptive Antenna solution has been nominated for the GSMA 2012 Global Mobile Awards in the Best Technology Breakthrough category.