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- August 30, 2010
- Novartis to Start Final-Stage Test of Blood Thinner
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Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its partner Novartis AG will begin final-stage testing of the experimental blood thinner... read more
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- August 24, 2010
- Five Prime Therapeutics, Gliding Like a Submarine, Quietly Takes Aim At Cancer
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Five Prime Therapeutics is one of those companies built on the old school biotech business model. Take a cutting-edge scientific concept, mix in... read more
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- August 30, 2010
- $30M Series F for EndoGastric
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EndoGastric Solutions in Redwood City, CA, said today that it has raised $30 million in Series F financing to support development and marketing of... read more
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- August 26, 2010
- New treatment for advanced melanoma shrinks tumors
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Drug reduced tumors in 80 percent of patients, study says, but effect may be fleeting
BOSTON — An experimental targeted cancer drug... read more
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- August 19. 2010
- Acceleron advances MD drug
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Acceleron Pharma Inc. has won financial incentives and enhanced protection from generic competition, for its drug candidate to treat... read more
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- August 12, 2010
- Calisolar names new chief executive
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Calisolar Inc. on Thursday named Sandra Beach Lin CEO.
The Sunnyvale company -- which makes solar silicon, wafers and cells -- said the... read more
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- August 4, 2010
- On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only
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You may not know a company called [x+1] Inc., but it may well know a lot about you.
From a single click on a web site, [x+1] correctly... read more
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- August 4, 2010
- Acceleron drug candidate gets fast-track designation
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Acceleron Pharma Inc., a privately held Cambridge biopharmaceutical company, said it has been granted fast-track designation for a potential... read more
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- August 3, 2010
- GlaxoSmithKline in deal with muscle drug maker
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NEW YORK - Privately held drug developer Five Prime Therapeutics Inc. said Tuesday it entered a partnership with GlaxoSmithKline PLC that... read more
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- July 30, 2010
- Calithera is latest bio venture for Molineaux
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Big ideas, meet Susan Molineaux.
After leading Proteolix Inc. from inception through mid-stage development of a potential blockbuster... read more
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- July 27, 2010
- Illumina Acquires Helixis for Up to $105M, To Get Small, Low-Cost Genetic Analysis Tool
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San Diego-based Illumina has acquired an intriguing startup from southern California with a vision of putting low-cost genetic analysis systems on... read more
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- July 26, 2010
- Onyx's Next Blockbuster?
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Onyx Pharmaceuticals' liver and kidney cancer drug Nexavar is closing in on a billion dollars in sales. But to succeed as a stand-alone biotech... read more
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- July 21, 2010
- WildTangent Reveals Games App For Social, Casual Titles
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Casual gaming network WildTangent announced WildTangent Games, a new online service and application that features social games and premium flash... read more
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- July 14, 2010
- Solar cell maker Calisolar raises $15M to bump up capacity
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Calisolar, maker of cheaper, high-efficiency solar cells, has raised a fresh $15 million to get it closer to its goal of producing more than... read more
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- July 8, 2010
- Calithera Biosciences Raises $40 Million
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Calithera Biosciences, a South San Francisco-based developer of oncology therapeutics, has raised $40 million in Series A funding. Morgenthaler... read more
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- June 30, 2010
- Packet Design Receives Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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Packet Design, the pioneer and leader in the field of route analytics solutions for managing large IP networks, today announced that it has been... read more
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- June 22, 2010
- Acceleron Pharma pulls in $8.4M financing
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Cambridge biopharmaceutical Acceleron Pharma Inc. has raised $8.4 million of a planned $11.5 million securities offering, according to a... read more
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- June 9, 2010
- Host Analytics Raises $15 Million
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Host Analytics, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of on-demand corporate performance management solutions, has raised $15 million in Series C... read more
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- June 1, 2010
- Altura Medical Lands $20 mil in VC
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California-based Altura Medical has rounded up $20 million in Series A financing. The early-stage manufacturer is developing devices and methods... read more
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- June 3, 2010
- Zeltiq Snaps Up $25M Series D For Cosmetic Fat Reduction
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Zeltiq Inc. said it has snapped up $25 million in Series D financing to ramp up sales of a system that helps consumers lose their love handles... read more
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- May 2010
- A Better Lens on Disease
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Computerized pathology slides may help doctors make faster and more accurate diagnoses
In the late 1990s Dirk G. Soenksen imagined a new... read more
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- May 11, 2010
- JMP Securities
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JMP securities recently named ChannelAdvisor as one of the ‘100 Best Privately Held Internet Companies.'
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- April 27, 2010
- Biofuels company Coskata gets equity financing
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Coskata, which develops technology to produce biofuels and other biochemicals, said it has closed a round of equity financing including an... read more
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- April 22, 2010
- Catabasis lands $39M Series A for diabetes programs
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Just days after raising its first tranche, Cambridge, MA-based Catabasis Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has completed a $39.6... read more
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- April 16, 2010
- Venture-cap investments rise in 1Q, as optimism up
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By RACHEL METZ
SAN FRANCISCO — Venture capitalists invested more money in U.S. startups during the first three months of... read more
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- April 6, 2010
- Governor Schwarzenegger Tours Sunnyvale Solar Cell Firm
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CBS News -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attended a Tuesday morning ribbon-cutting ceremony at a Sunnyvale solar cell company, where he highlighted... read more
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- March 24, 2010
- Rise in obesity makes VCs hungry for startups
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SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - Startups focused on treatments for metabolic disorders - one of the key contributing factors in obesity -... read more
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- March 24, 2010
- Q&A: Web application security testing
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As the CTO and VP of Engineering at Cenzic, Lars Ewe has a broad background in (web) application development and security.
In this... read more
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- March 18, 2010
- Roche Sees Blockbuster Potential In 10 Experimental Drugs
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Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) Thursday said it may launch up to ten new drugs over the next few years that could become blockbusters, adding more clout... read more
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- March 18, 2010
- Solar Cell Maker Solar Junction Heats Up With $13.3M Series C
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Returning investors have given solar cell developer Solar Junction Inc. a $13.3 million Series C round as the company prepares to... read more
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- March 11, 2010
- WildTangent's ad platform gets social, signs Tiki Farm
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Redmond game company WildTangent is pushing its "BrandBoost" ad platform into social gaming starting with Facebook hit "Tiki Farm," where players... read more
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- March 9, 2010
- Top 50 Venture-backed Companies
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Portola Pharmaceuticals and Acceleron Pharma are featured in the Wall Street Journal's Next Big Thing Report: The Top 50 Venture-backed... read more
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- March 1, 2010
- WildTangent launches BrandBoost ad platform for social and online games
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To date, online games — from Facebook games to massively multiplayer online games — have been monetized not through ad revenue but... read more
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- February 23, 2010
- WildTangent Takes on Social Gaming
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WildTangent, which has built a sizable footprint in the casual game space, is making a push into the exploding world of social games with the... read more
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- February 25, 2010
- What the NY Times can learn from online games
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You’ve probably heard that the New York Times is planning to put up a pay wall next year that will shut off its content to all but paying... read more
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- February 23, 2010
- A Drug Trial Cycle: Recovery, Relapse, Reinvention
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By AMY HARMON
ORLANDO, Fla. — On a sunny afternoon last June, Dr. Keith Flaherty stood before a large room packed with oncologists from... read more
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- February 23, 2010
- Coskata Named to Technology Review's TR50 List of Most Innovative Companies
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To select the 50 most innovative companies in the world, the editors of Technology Review looked for those that over the last year have... read more
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- February 23, 2010
- Intel, Venture Firms to Invest $3.5 Billion in U.S. Startups
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By Ian King
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, and a group of 24 venture-capital companies will... read more
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- February 23, 2010
- After Long Fight, Drug Gives Sudden Reprieve
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By AMY HARMON
For the melanoma patients who signed on to try a drug known as PLX4032, the clinical trial was a last resort. Their bodies were... read more
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- February 21, 2010
- A Roller Coaster Chase for a Cure
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By AMY HARMON
PHILADELPHIA — His patient, a spunky Italian-American woman in her 60s, was waiting in an exam room down the hall for the... read more
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- February 17, 2010
- Calisolar catches $23.5M following 6N Silicon buy
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Calisolar, maker of high-efficiency solar cells made out of cheaper, scrap silicon, has brought in $23.5 million in new equity, according to a... read more
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- February 3, 2010
- Zap or Chill? Targeting Fat Without Surgery
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- January 12, 2010
- Valley firms reap millions in clean-tech tax credit
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Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new clean-tech jobs should be created in Silicon Valley in the wake of the Obama administration's award of $2.3... read more
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- January 7, 2010
- GI Dynamics raises $15M, gets Medtronic backing
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Medical device maker GI Dynamics Inc. has landed $15 million in venture capital from an unidentified investor, according to a regulatory... read more
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- December 10, 2009
- Acceleron Pharma Invests in Bricks & Mortar When Virtual is In Vogue
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Acceleron Pharma had to be kidding, I figured, when it scheduled me to visit their labs and offices a few weeks ago in Cambridge, MA. They... read more
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- November 13, 2009
- Tiny Helixis is riding the swine flu wave to sell its smaller, cheaper DNA machine
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When the swine flu surfaced in Mexico last April, health authorities there turned to the U.S. for help. The Centers for Disease Control &... read more
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- October 28, 2009
- Helixis, Caltech Spinoff With Desktop Genetic Analysis Tool, Nabs $7.3M Venture Financing
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Carlsbad, CA-based Helixis, the startup maker of genetic analysis tools founded from the Caltech lab of Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, has raised... read more
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- October 15, 2009
- Industry Built From Scratch
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MADISON, Pa. — On one side of a factory here, workers dump 500-pound sacks of pine chips into a hopper. Deep inside the plant, an... read more
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- GreatPoint Energy's Andrew Perlman Named 2009 Young Innovator
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Slashing carbon emissions by converting coal into natural gas
One of the biggest challenges in fighting global warming is reducing... read more
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- October 12, 2009
- Onyx Pharmaceuticals to Acquire Proteolix
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- Sept. 23, 2009
- Plexxikon: Melanoma drug shrinks tumors
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An early-stage oral metastatic melanoma treatment from Plexxikon Inc. has reduced tumor size in 70 percent of patients, and the Berkeley company... read more
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- Sept. 21, 2009
- Take two: Nominum tries hosted DNS
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Nominum is hoping that the second time is the charm in the outsourced DNS market, as the maker of high-end DNS software announces a hosted service... read more
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- Coskata looks to stimulus to finish demo biofuel plant
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Even though cellulosic ethanol maker Coskata just brought in $40 million in a third round of funding in November, it needs more to finish off its... read more
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- July 14, 2009
- EndoGastric Solutions Takes in $7.5M
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EndoGastric Solutions, a medical device company based in Redmond, WA, and Redwood City, CA, raised $7.5 million from undisclosed investors. The... read more
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- July 2009
- A Radical New Router
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One of the founders of the Internet says network routers are too slow, costly, and power hungry-and he knows how to fix... read more
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- July 13, 2009
- CaliSolar Set to Complete a 50MW Factory for UMG Silicon Solar Cells
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The California startup plans to expand its factory to 200 megawatts by the end of 2010, said its CEO Roy Johnson. The company’s... read more
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- July 10, 2009
- VC Deal Scoop
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Helixis Inc., a Carlsbad, Calif.-based developer of nucleic acid analysis tools, has secured $5.5 million of a $6.5 million round. It previously... read more
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- July 10, 2009
- Portola Pharma Signs $470 Million Deal with Merck
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Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) has bought exclusive rights from Portola Pharmaceuticals, to develop and commercialize an oral blood thinner, used to... read more
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- Handango Partners with Mobile Entertainment Company Viva Vision
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Handango has partnered with mobile entertainment company Viva Vision to expand distribution of Handango’s mobile entertainment slideshows.... read more
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- July 9, 2009
- Venture capitalist confidence up, still wary-survey
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SAN FRANCISCO - Venture capitalists believe the worst of the financial crisis is behind them but are not expecting a rapid recovery in initial... read more
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- June 22, 2009
- Immunoproteasome Blocker as Weapon Against Arthritis
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Feature story on the June 14 feature in 'Nature Medicine' in which scientists from Proteolix - whose proteasome inhibitor Carfilzomib is in... read more
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- June 3, 2009
- Skin-Cancer Drug Uses Genetics
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Results from a small, early-stage clinical trial suggest the burgeoning strategy of attacking tumors based on their genetic... read more
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- June 9, 2009
- Proteolix Presents Clinical Data From Two Clinical Studies Of Carfilzomib In Multiple Myeloma At The 14th Congress
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'Carfilzomib monotherapy achieves durable responses in relapsed multiple myeloma patients regardless of their prior exposure to bortezomib, and... read more
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- May 21, 2009
- Host Analytics Looks To Crack New Markets With Series B
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Host Analytics Inc. has secured just under $9 million in Series B funding to explore new markets for its on-demand budgeting and planning... read more
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- April 22, 2099
- Announcing The Artemis Project Top 50 Water Companies
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Water, it is often said, is the new carbon: the next critical piece of business operations to manage and use efficiently. But the vast majority of... read more
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- April 21, 2009
- Study: More TV Viewers Also Online Later In Week
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A study on multitasking during prime-time TV showed that during weeknight television viewing, viewers also spent an average of 9.3% of prime-time... read more
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- April 21, 2009
- Study: More TV Viewers Also Online Later In Week
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A study on multitasking during prime-time TV showed that during weeknight television viewing, viewers also spent an average of 9.3% of prime-time... read more
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- April 13, 2009
- Where coal and clean tech meet
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On Monday I drove to Southern Massachusetts to visit GreatPoint Energy's $37 million Mayflower Clean Energy Center, a demonstration plant for... read more
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- March 31, 2009
- Old Blood-Pressure Treatments Make High-Tech Comebacks
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- More than a half-century ago, doctors treating patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure might resort to crude and invasive... read more
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- March 23, 2009
- Ardian pumps in $47M for high blood pressure device
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Ardian , developer of a device that could help treat high blood pressure, has brought in $47 million in a third round of funding led by Medtronic... read more
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- February 25, 2009
- AlwaysOn Announces GoingGreen East 50 Winners
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GreatPoint Energy Tops List of 50 Most Innovative Emerging Greentech and Cleantech Companies
AlwaysOn, the leading... read more
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- February 11, 2009
- VC Firms, Led By Advanced Technology Ventures, Aim To Polish Image with Entrepreneurs
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This we’ve known: The venture capital business model relies on having talented entrepreneurs to run their portfolio companies. Yet many... read more
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- February 14, 2009
- Oasys raises $10m for desalination
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A Cambridge company developing an economical way to convert saltwater into drinking water said it has finalized $10 million in venture capital... read more
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- February 12, 2009
- Handango Releases Top 10 Lists for 2008
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Handango released its top 10 lists for 2008, and Spb Software, a mobile applications developer, took top honors.
Selling at $29.95, Spb... read more
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- February 12, 2009
- Novartis Buys Rights to a Drug to Thin Blood
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Novartis has obtained the worldwide rights to an anticlotting drug that could eventually compete with Plavix, the world’s... read more
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- February 22, 2009
- The Midas List
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ATV General Partners Jean George and Bob Hower are featured on this year's Forbes Midas List, which spotlights the 100 most active... read more
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- February 09, 2009
- Packet Design adds former AT&T exec to board
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Packet Design Inc. has appointed Hossein Eslambolchi, former chief technology officer of AT&T, to its board of directors.
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- February 09, 2009
- GI Dynamics Swallows $15M More In Series C
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Medical device developer GI Dynamics Inc. has raised an additional $15 million in Series C financing, bringing the total raised in the... read more
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- January 27, 2009
- Alfalight unveils surface-emitting DFB laser for lower-cost, high-power systems
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In the session ‘Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers VIII’ at the Photonics West 2009 conference in San Jose, CA this Thursday, Manoj... read more
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- January 23, 2009
- New CEO for Handango
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Mobile software retailer, Handango has announced the promotion of Alex Bloom from vice president of content and international to CEO and... read more
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- January 21, 2009
- ATV Backs Ardian in $30M Financing
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Advanced Technology Ventures, which has offices in Waltham, MA, and Palo Alto, CA, has backed medical devices firm Adrian in a $30 million, third... read more
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- January 16, 2009
- Hydra raises $22m in funding round
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Hydra Biosciences Inc., a Cambridge biotechnology company that is developing novel ion channel drugs, is set to disclose today that it has raised... read more
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- January 14, 2009
- IMMI Names Bill McKenna President, CEO
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McKenna previously served as CEO of WPP Group's Kantar Media Research North America and its KMR and Mediafax business units ... read more
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- January, 08, 2009
- Plexxikon teams up with Roche, eyes $335M to fight kidney disease
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Pharmaceutical company Plexxikon has joined forces with health care giant Roche for at least $60 million to develop a treatment for polycystic... read more
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- December 28, 2008
- Spinal Surgery to Get You on Your Feet Faster
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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
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- December 04, 2008
- Re-energizing Energy Innovation: Experts Spar (Lightly) at Xconomy Forum
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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
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- November 21, 2008
- Nextivity Aims to Boost Indoor Cell Phone Signal
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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
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- November 21, 2008
- Monetization On The Minds Of Web Start-Ups
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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
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- November 03, 2008
- CaliSolar raises over $100M for planned "dirty" silicon cell factory
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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
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- October 14, 2008
- Cellphones Will Measure Consumers Exposure To Ad Campaigns Across Platforms
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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
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- October 01, 2008
- Record capital again flows to clean tech
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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
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- September 16, 2008
- Anagran gets $8.6 million for network traffic management
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Anagran, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that builds "flow management" products to help handle traffic on Internet service provider (ISP) and corporate... read more
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- September 15, 2008
- Packet Design Draws In $12M, Eyes Break-Even
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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
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- September 11, 2008
- GreatPoint Inks Huge Chinese Coal Gasification Deals
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Coal-gasification technology developer GreatPoint Energy Inc. has signed a new agreement with Datang Huayin Electric Power Co. to jointly develop a... read more
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- September 10, 2008
- Proteolix takes long view against autoimmune diseases
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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
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- September 09, 2008
- Proteolix's $79M Year's 3rd Largest Biotech Haul
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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
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- September 02, 2008
- Nielsen, Integrated Media Measurement Team for Out-of-Home TV Metrics
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Integrated Media Measurement Inc. and Nielsen Co. have began a new service that electronically measures national television viewing outside the home,... read more
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- August 21, 2008
- Why Vulcan, Google, and ATV Are Backing AltaRock Energy, Betting on Next-Gen Geothermal
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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
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- August 19, 2008
- Google puts $10 mln into new geothermal technology
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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
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- August 13, 2008
- GluMetrics Takes In $20M Series C For Trials
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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
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- August 12, 2008
- Handango Inks Deal with EA Mobile
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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
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- August 11, 2008
- CNN Orders Out-of-Home Study on TV Viewership
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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
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- July 28, 2008
- NeuroVista, Emerging from Stealth Mode, Unveils Technology to Predict Epileptic Seizures
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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
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- July 25, 2008
- Qumu's goal: make managing, sending video simple
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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
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- July 18, 2008
- U.S. Solar Could Surpass German Market by 2011
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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
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- July 17, 2008
- Nuventix raises $14 million
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Austin-based Nuventix Inc., which develops cooling technology for LED lighting systems and electronics, has raised $14 million in venture capital to... read more
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- July 16, 2008
- ATV Leads Investments In Two Cleantech Cos.
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Advanced Technology Ventures will today announce investments in two cleantech companies: Wakonda Technologies Inc., a developer of solar photovoltaic... read more
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- July 16, 2008
- Wakonda, Nuventix Raise Millions
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A solar-cell developer and a thermal-cooling startup received money from Advanced Technology Ventures and other investors.Advanced Technology... read more
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- July 16, 2008
- Start-up Wakonda promises 'breakthrough' solar cells
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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
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- July 15, 2008
- Two major venture capital firms invest in Nuventix's latest funding round
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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
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- July 11, 2008
- The Wireless Web Could be Bigger than the Wired Web
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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
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- July 09, 2008
- D.E. Shaw Leads $60M Round For Portola
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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
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- July 07, 2008
- Digital technology to play major role in Olympics
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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
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- July 06, 2008
- NBC's Huge Games Tally
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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
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- July 01, 2008
- Motorola Announces an Investment in Apprion
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Through its strategic venture capital arm, Motorola announced an investment in Apprion, a provider of open industrial wireless networks and... read more
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- June 16, 2008
- Acceleron expanding, adding jobs
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Acceleron Pharma Inc. is expanding its protein-manufacturing capabilities and will beef up employment to fill a variety of jobs throughout the... read more
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- June 06, 2008
- CED honors longtime president, hands out 'Excellence' awards
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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
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- June 04, 2008
- Oh Friendly Day: Boston VCs Launch National Network for Renewable-Energy Entrepreneurs
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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
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- May 29, 2008
- [x+1] Plus One More: Gets New CTO, Cash Infusion Too
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'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
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- May 23, 2008
- UCSF trio hopes to draw cash with titanium tube
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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
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- May 20, 2008
- Venture Firms Stock Up On In-House Entrepreneurs
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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
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- May 08, 2008
- Newcomer delivers innovative FETs for less-visible, fragmented market
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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
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- May 07, 2008
- Oncology Drug Co. Apoptos Picks Up $28M Series A
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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
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- April 30, 2008
- Curing Diseases in Humans
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Link to the televised interview:www.necn.com/Boston/SciTech/Curing-muscle-diseases-in-humans/1209596420.html
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- April 28, 2008
- Guess Who's Rewriting the Rules of Gaming?
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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
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- April 07, 2008
- Interview with Handango's Will Pinnell
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For entrepreneurial software developers weighing the risks and benefits inherent in the mobile market, getting product to the customer is a key... read more
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- April 07, 2008
- Coskata CEO explains how to get to $1 a gallon ethanol
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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
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- April 01, 2008
- Ethanol from Garbage and Old Tires
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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
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- March 20, 2008
- Alex St. John: "Consoles as We Know Them are Gone"
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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
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- March 19, 2008
- Superbugs May Save Biofuels
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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
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- March 17, 2008
- What's the Big Idea?
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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
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- March 14, 2008
- Aperio gets $20M Series C
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The rapidly growing digital medical technology market helped Aperio Technologies Inc. raise a $20 million third round to broaden its offerings beyond... read more
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- March 13, 2008
- Hydra Biosciences Feels No Pain With $34M
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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
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- March 04, 2008
- iPhone Software Developers, Start Your Engines!
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Top mobile software developer DataViz, Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo and other software developers are raring to start writing software for the... read more
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- February 21, 2008
- Coskata Hopes to Buck Tradition
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It's no secret that distribution has been an obstacle for ethanol.Transporting, storing and selling the stuff have proven difficult. Gasoline... read more
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- February 20, 2008
- Acceleron teams up with Celgene
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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
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- February 19, 2008
- S.F. conference spotlights PC gaming
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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
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- February 19, 2008
- Overstock, ChannelAdvisor Extend Deal
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Overstock.com Inc. and ChannelAdvisor Corp. extended a strategic alliance that lets online retailers list their goods... read more
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- February 19, 2008
- Some VCs learn to appreciate site that rates them
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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
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- February 11, 2008
- PolyRemedy Seals Up $25M For Wound Care
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When Tom Rodgers, principal at Advanced Technology Ventures, first learned of PolyRemedy Inc.'s point-of-care distribution device for wound care... read more
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- February 06, 2008
- ATV's New $300 Million Fund to Expand Firm's Reach to Green Building Materials and More
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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
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- January 24, 2008
- Midas '08: Big Wins for Venture Capitalists / ATV's Bob Hower featured on Forbes Midas List
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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
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- January 23, 2008
- Acceleron wins $1M for bone cancer research
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Cambridge biotech Acceleron Pharma Inc. has received a $1 million investment from the nonprofit Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation of Norwalk,... read more
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- January 18, 2008
- Anagran Gets $12M For Network Flow Management Equip.
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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
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- January 16, 2008
- Ethanol Minus the Corn: ATV's Bill Wiberg on Coskata and Its Big Deal With GM
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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
