Daily Business Report: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Qualcomm buying Arduino, producer of tiny computers for artists and ‘makers’
By Chris Jennewein | Times of San Diego
Qualcomm announced Tuesday it is buying Arduino, an Italian developer of tiny computers used worldwide by artists and makers for interactive projects.
The San Diego-based company’s Qualcomm Technologies division said the acquisition is part of a “strategy to empower developers by facilitating access to its unmatched portfolio of edge technologies and products.”
Arduino, which was founded in 2003, develops a wide range of inexpensive microcontrollers and microprocessors that are used by millions of entrepreneurs, developers, artists, educators and hobbyists.
Supporters of Public Power and Opponents Agree They Can’t Trust City of San Diego with Another Utility
By ScottLewis| Voice of San Diego
Supporters of the effort to put SDG&E out of business, and have a local government oversee the transmission and distribution of electricity, have apparently recognized that their biggest obstacle may be a perceived lack of trust in how well the city is operating.
At the Politifest 2025 discussion on how we can make electricity more affordable, former City Manager Jack McGrory argued that the best hope was to push SDG&E to keep trying to lower bills and advocate for the legislature to remove some of the many mandates they’ve put into electric bills.
But his main point was residents simply couldn’t trust the city of San Diego to run their power company.
Farmers Say Supervisor’s Sewage Efforts Cost Them Their Livelihood
By Jim Hinch | Voice of San Diego
For more than two decades, small-scale farmers and community gardeners have grown fresh fruits and vegetables, native plants, flowers and other produce at the Tijuana River Valley Community Garden, a 20-acre complex of publicly owned farmland adjacent to the Tijuana River near the U.S.-Mexico border.
The complex of quarter-acre farms and 30-foot-by-30-foot garden plots supports more than 200 local families and a handful of small farm businesses. Aspiring gardeners wait years for a spot. Members describe the garden as a lifeline of beauty, community and healthy food.
All of that came to a halt last week when representatives from the Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County, which manages the garden, issued mass eviction notices to all 217 community gardeners and farmers.
