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• ConnectEDU Closes $8.2M Series C Round

  Boston-based ConnectEDU, a technology firm that specializes in online tools for college admissions and career planning, announced in a press release that it has surpassed its projected $5 million goal for... Read more »

• EcoDog’s Home Energy Monitoring Product Sniffs Out Energy Savings

  Fido just might be a homeowner’s new best friend. The watchdog in question isn’t a vigilant Doberman or German Shepard, but rather the flagship product of EcoDog, a home energy-monitoring... Read more »

• Awesome Foundation Looking For Offbeat Ideas That Need a $1,000 Boost

  Flame-thrower enthusiasts and giant dinosaur puppet-makers of the world, rejoice. The Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences wants to support your efforts. Starting in July, the new Cambridge, MA-based “microtrust” will... Read more »

• 5AM Ventures Beats Goal for 3rd Fund

  5AM Ventures, a life sciences-focused early stage venture capital firm, has surpassed its $150 million target for its third fund, reports PE Hub. An SEC filing that indicates 5AM, which... Read more »

• Biogen Gets Int’l Rights to Acorda’s MS Drug

  Cambridge, MA drug giant Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB) and Hawthorne, NY-based Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ACOR) announced today that Biogen Idec has acquired the rights to develop and commercialize Acorda’s... Read more »

• Powering Cleantech to Market: Highlights from the XSITE Energy Panel

  [Corrected 7/1/09]

  The atmosphere at last Wednesday’s XSITE energy breakout session was electric—clean electric, that is. The topic of the hour was the future and feasibility of wind, solar,... Read more »

• Amazon Pulls the Plug on Rhode Island Affiliates

  Seattle’s mighty Amazon isn’t feeling too friendly toward the Ocean State. This morning, the online retail giant sent out a terse notice to its Rhode Island affiliates, informing them that their... Read more »

• Biogen Reports 10th PML Case in Tysabri Patient

  Biogen Idec (NASDAQ:BIIB) reported a tenth case of a serious brain infection in a patient taking Tysabri, the Cambridge, MA-based company’s drug for multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s disease. The... Read more »

• Life Science Leaders Converge in Newport, PubGet Gets Your Paper Faster, I-Therapeutix Eyes $15M Prize & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  Our Seattle compatriots have all arrived in Boston for XSITE. We wish we could say they brought the rain with them, but in fact, Boston has been far wetter than... Read more »

• TruFan Swings For the Fences

  Rafe Anderson is moving up into the big leagues. His sports social media network, TruFan, officially goes national today. TruFan grew out of a collection of websites—Sawxheads, Celtsheads, and Blackandgoldheads—which... Read more »

• Axis Semiconductor Snags $1M

  Marlborough, MA-based signaling company Axis Semiconductor has completed half of a proposed $2,050,000 equity financing round, according to an SEC filing. No details on the investors were provided, par for... Read more »

• Xconomy Survey Finds Cautious Economic XSITE-ment

  Ladies and gentlemen, Xconomy readers have spoken, and the view is optimistic. We posed several questions about what the coming year will bring for the economy as people registered for our... Read more »

• Mass High Tech Goes Biweekly

  New England technology and business newspaper Mass High Tech is moving from a weekly to a biweekly print publishing schedule effective in September, publisher Michael Olivieri said yesterday. The Boston Globe... Read more »

• Interlace Sews Up $20.5M Series C Round

  Framingham, MA-based Interlace Medical, which develops medical devices for gynecologists, announced today it has raised $20.5 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Baird Venture Partners and... Read more »

• Innovation A-Brewin’ At The XSITE Pre-Party

  Two weeks before the best damn innovation conference on either side of the Charles, Xconomy and friends flocked to the Cambridge Brewing Company Wednesday night, and Kendall Square was awash... Read more »

• DIGMA Aims To Boost Bay State’s Design Economy

  Design isn’t just about deciding which shade of taupe to paint City Hall or whether to make a water bottle square or round. It can mean the difference between comprehension (think... Read more »

• Canditto—A Wedding Crasher That Shares The Love

  Four years ago, Rush Hambleton and his wife left their wedding reception on a restored 1962 Vespa motor scooter. The professional photographer missed it. But luckily, an aunt just happened to... Read more »

• Gather Nets $5.3 M

  Gather, a Boston-headquartered social networking site aimed at users over 30, announced today that it has raised $5.3 million in equity financing. Major investors in the round include Allen & Company,... Read more »

• Noble Environmental Power Pulls IPO

  Noble Environmental Power, an Essex, CT-based wind energy company, has withdrawn its planned for an IPO. The offering, initially filed in May 2008, was to include some 23.4 million shares... Read more »

• Icahn Nominees Claim Victory on Two of Four Open Seats to Biogen Idec Board, Vote Still Not Official

  [Update, 3:05 pm Eastern]

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s representatives say they have pulled out a victory in their proxy contest with Biogen Idec, winning two of the four seats that were... Read more »