A new minimally invasive spinal surgery trims hospital stays and affords a shorter recovery time than traditional methods, says a company that sells... read more

'Predictive' online marketing firm [x+1] today is expected to bring in a new chief technology officer, Pat DeAngelis, Online Media Daily has... read more

Acceleron Pharma Inc. is expanding its protein-manufacturing capabilities and will beef up employment to fill a variety of jobs throughout the... read more

Last week, Tim Sweeney made some dire predictions regarding the overall future of the PC as a gaming platform. On TGDaily, he was widely quoted... read more

Anagran Inc., a maker of equipment to relieve congestion on wide-area networks, has secured $12 million in Series C funding from its existing... read more

Anagran, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that builds "flow management" products to help handle traffic on Internet service provider (ISP) and corporate... read more

The rapidly growing digital medical technology market helped Aperio Technologies Inc. raise a $20 million third round to broaden its offerings beyond... read more

Advanced Technology Ventures will today announce investments in two cleantech companies: Wakonda Technologies Inc., a developer of solar photovoltaic... read more

Advanced Technology Ventures slipped one by us. Over the holidays the Waltham, MA-based venture firm closed its eighth fund, at $303 million, and... read more

There's a shortage of the pure silicon used to make solar cells, but Sunnyvale, Calif-based CaliSolar doesn't care. There's plenty of the less... read more

Durham, N.C. -As hundreds of people jamming the American Tobacco Historical District's Bay 7 venue looked on, Monica Doss received the Council for... read more

Integrated Media Measurement, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company is working on an emerging technology, which uses a consumer's cellphone to spy on... read more

With spending on out-of-home media poised to all but double by 2011, networks are eager to get a better handle on the relative effectiveness of... read more

Nearly every cellulosic ethanol company claims it will be able to produce fuel at $1 or less a gallon in a few years. William Roe, CEO of Coskata, in... read more

It's no secret that distribution has been an obstacle for ethanol.Transporting, storing and selling the stuff have proven difficult. Gasoline... read more

Link to the televised interview:www.necn.com/Boston/SciTech/Curing-muscle-diseases-in-humans/1209596420.html

Venture capital, hedge and mutual fund investors are fueling Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. with $60 million more in Series C financing to help drive... read more

The Olympics made a quantum leap in 1960 when CBS crews flew tapes of the Rome Games back to New York to be broadcast. The network coverage... read more

As he leads a tour of the labs at Coskata, a startup based in Warrenville, IL, Richard Tobey, the company's vice president of research and... read more

Switching the nation's vehicle fleet from gasoline to biofuels such as corn-derived ethanol could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil,... read more

GluMetrics Inc., a company developing a glucose monitoring device for hospital uses, has raised $20.1 million in Series C financing to take the... read more

LOS ANGELES, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Google Inc on Tuesday said it would invest more than $10 million in an emerging geothermal energy technology as part... read more

Coal-gasification technology developer GreatPoint Energy Inc. has signed a new agreement with Datang Huayin Electric Power Co. to jointly develop a... read more

Girls, office drones, and other non-teenage boys hooked on new, free-to-play online games, that's who. It's bad news for giants like Electronic Arts... read more

Handango announced a deal to distribute top casual game favorites from the mobile division of Electronic Arts.EA mobile titles including Madden NFL... read more

Hydra Biosciences Inc., which is developing novel ion channel-targeted drugs for pain and other conditions, has raised a $34 million Series C round... read more

For entrepreneurial software developers weighing the risks and benefits inherent in the mobile market, getting product to the customer is a key... read more

Top mobile software developer DataViz, Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo and other software developers are raring to start writing software for the... read more

BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Recent credit crunch and market woes be damned: Technology's most powerful deal makers have been on a winning streak.Companies... read more

In the good old days of 2006 when venture capital funding was abundant and the economy was still flourishing, most Web start-ups paid more... read more

Through its strategic venture capital arm, Motorola announced an investment in Apprion, a provider of open industrial wireless networks and... read more

When the Olympic Games air next month, 200 million Americans will be watching. And NBC will be watching those viewers to figure out how many people... read more

NeuroVista has said next to nothing in public about how its technology works, until today. After sitting down for an exclusive interview with CEO... read more

In a period of vendor mergers and spinouts, a semiconductor startup is a relative rarity.Just as unusual is one which focuses on discrete devices... read more

To improve coverage, Nextivity has developed a 'smart repeater' to boost indoor cell phone signals.The device consists of two pieces of equipment:... read more

Acceleron Pharma Inc. today announced a global collaboration with Celgene Corp. on a program to treat cancer-related bone loss, a move that will... read more

Integrated Media Measurement Inc. and Nielsen Co. have began a new service that electronically measures national television viewing outside the home,... read more

Austin-based Nuventix Inc., which develops cooling technology for LED lighting systems and electronics, has raised $14 million in venture capital to... read more

As I wrote last year in a piece entitled "Go East, Young Man," cleantech investors Rob Day and Andrew Friendly both left California around the same... read more

Oncology drug developer Apoptos Inc. has raised $28 million in Series A financing to reach the clinic with its first compound.Arch Venture Partners... read more

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Overstock.com Inc. and ChannelAdvisor Corp. extended a strategic alliance that lets online retailers list their goods... read more

In what investors say is likely to be its last round of venture financing, Packet Design Inc. has secured $12 million in Series D funding to further... read more

When Tom Rodgers, principal at Advanced Technology Ventures, first learned of PolyRemedy Inc.'s point-of-care distribution device for wound care... read more

It's ambitious enough to develop the next generation of cancer killers. But Proteolix Inc. is stretching to take long-term aim at autoimmune diseases... read more

Proteolix Inc., which hopes to treat a variety of cancers with drugs that disrupt key cell functions, has raised $79 million in Series C financing to... read more

Qumu Inc. will use part of the $10.7 million in new funding it has raised to bring its video-management software to market along with big partners... read more

The role of technology entrepreneurs in rebuilding the U.S. energy economy was the main theme at Xconomy's latest forum Tuesday night. Topping the... read more

Clean technology startups once again raised a record amount of venture capital in the third quarter, $2.6 billion, with 42 percent of it going to... read more

Despite its ubiquity, the PC has often been viewed as the ugly gaming stepchild compared with the popular PlayStation, Xbox and Wii consoles. But the... read more

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley's purveyors of start-up capital are often quick to back new ideas, but a Web site that lets entrepreneurs... read more

Wakonda Technologies said Wednesday that it has raised $9.5 million to pursue development of the ideal solar cell, one that is highly efficient and... read more

A lot of people I talk to are giddy over the prospect of biofuels. I call them 'biofools.' Anyone who has analyzed the economics and environmental... read more

The Wireless Web Could be Bigger than the Wired WebYou think the Internet was revolutionary for the technology market and the masses? Well the mobile... read more

Nuventix Inc. says it raised $14 million in its latest funding round.The Austin maker of the SynJet device -- a quieter and cheaper way to cool... read more

The U.S. will overtake Germany as the largest solar market in 2011, a recent JP Morgan report suggests.According to a chart in the June report, which... read more

Mix three young minds with a two-inch-long tube of titanium in an entrepreneurial, science-based setting and you get a new and potentially cheaper... read more

When Facebook Inc. Chief Technology Officer Adam D'Angelo announced recently his plans to leave the company, rumors abounded that the company's... read more

A solar-cell developer and a thermal-cooling startup received money from Advanced Technology Ventures and other investors.Advanced Technology... read more

The other day a friend of mine asked, "What technology do you think will have the greatest impact on our lives over the next 10 years?" I thought... read more

Geothermal is one of those energy sources that you know is there, but you don't hear about much. Until it comes rushing to the surface, as it did... read more

Cambridge biotech Acceleron Pharma Inc. has received a $1 million investment from the nonprofit Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation of Norwalk,... read more

Pharmaceutical company Plexxikon has joined forces with health care giant Roche for at least $60 million to develop a treatment for polycystic... read more

McKenna previously served as CEO of WPP Group's Kantar Media Research North America and its KMR and Mediafax business units ... read more