Tom Abate

Tom Abate is a freelance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area who has covered science, high-tech, biotech, and economics.

Recent posts

Cogenra’s Double Whammy: Solar Arrays that Generate Electricity and Hot Water

A Silicon Valley startup is trying to squeeze more energy out of sunlight by combining photovoltaic arrays with a technology to generate hot water, to lower the costs of both electricity and heat.... Read more »
Ban.jo Breaches the Barriers Between Location-Based Apps

More and more social networks are offering geolocation. How does a person keep up without joining every service under the sun? A Palo Alto, CA-based startup called Ban.jo hopes to become geo-location central... Read more »
Startups Making Do with Fewer Workers, Kauffman Study Shows

Has the air gone out of the American economy? That’s the troubling suggestion of a new study showing how, even before the current downturn, fewer new firms were being formed and those... Read more »
Sequenom, Illumina Team Up on Down Syndrome Test

A noninvasive diagnostic test for fetal Down syndrome is the hoped-for outcome a deal announced today under which Sequenom, the genetic testing vendor, will obtain tools from Illumina, which develops... Read more »
Primus Sold to Precision Castparts

Oak Hill Capital Partners said today that it will sell Bellevue, WA-based aerospace components manufacturer Primus International to Precision Castparts of Portland, OR, for $900 million in cash. The transaction is... Read more »

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