Wade Roush
Hi, thanks for visiting my author page. I'm Chief Correspondent at Xconomy, and since June 2010 I've also been Editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can reach me by e-mail at wroush@xconomy.com, or by phone at (415) 796-3024.
In addition to my regular news stories, I write an opinion/review column every Friday called
World Wide Wade. An up-to-date list of all of my Xconomy stories follows at the bottom of this page.
I'm a longtime science and technology writer focused on digital media and Internet culture, with a special interest in mobile, social, and location-aware computing and the creative applications of Web and mobile tools.
I was a staff member at MIT’s
Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and (for a short while) executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before joining
TR, I was the Boston bureau reporter for
Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia, the company that made the Rocket eBook (like the Kindle, but way before its time).
I graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. I've published my work in
Science,
Technology Review,
IEEE Spectrum,
Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Technology and Culture,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, and
World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
I'm the author of an e-book compilation,
Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade, which is available as a
free PDF or a
$4.99 Kindle edition.
My social media coordinates:
Twitter:
@wroush,
@XconomySF
Facebook:
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Google+ :
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YouTube:
www.youtube.com/wroush1967
Flickr:
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LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/waderoush
My personal blog:
Travels with Rhody
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If you’re a hammer, you just want to smash nails; if you’re a programmer, you just want to build features. But features do not a successful product make. This is the central myopia that... Read more »
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Time for our rundown of recent deals and other key biztech news around the Bay Area, from biggest to smallest.
$50 million—Series D venture financing announced yesterday for Marketo, the San... Read more »
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Today’s main infotech feature on Xconomy San Francisco is about Ask.com, the Oakland, CA-based search company that has been busy transforming itself into a question-and-answer service powered by an army of... Read more »
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What’s the best way to tell my mother-in-law that we’re not going to visit her at Thanksgiving?
My college friend has taken over my friendship with another guy, and now both... Read more »
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Time for our irregularly scheduled, data-driven roundup of news from the Bay Area technology world, starting with three separate $25 million items:
$25 million—The amount raised back in August by Redwood... Read more »
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A confession: When I first heard that a recent Harvard Business School MBA named Halle Tecco intended to start an incubator for healthcare startups in San Francisco, I was more than a little skeptical. It... Read more »
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The first anniversary of Xconomy San Francisco, back in June, flew by so fast we didn’t have time to commemorate it. But today, November 14, it’s been 17 months to the... Read more »
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Put high-quality cameras into devices with broadband wireless connections. Add powerful smartphone operating systems like iOS or Android and app-store ecosystems like iTunes and the Android Market. Mix in some sloth... Read more »
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“Healthcare is broken. Insurance companies are innovatively bankrupt. There are huge hurdles to entry. The biggest companies in the world can’t solve this problem; even Google can’t build a good personal health... Read more »
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Time for the data-driven roundup of deals news and other developments in the Bay Area tech world. From biggest to smallest:
$1-$2 billion—The amount that Yelp hopes to raise in a rumored... Read more »
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Yesterday’s announcement by Scale Venture Partners that it will make no new investments in healthcare companies may not have come as a huge surprise to some insiders. Kate Mitchell, a founder and managing... Read more »
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Life sciences investing is up against the ropes. The sector has been beset by such high capital costs and such long paths to market that many venture partners don’t seem to... Read more »
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From Phil Fernandez’s point of view, there’s a precise moment in the sales process when a potential buyer is ready to be contacted by a seller. Reach out too soon, and they’ll be annoyed... Read more »
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Time to round up the latest local funding and deals numbers. Some of this is catch-up from last week.
$500 million—The amount of a planned secondary stock offering by Mountain View, CA-based... Read more »
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There are roughly 500,000 iPhone and iPad apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store, and almost that many smartphone and tablet apps in Google’s Android Market. That gives mobile consumers lots of... Read more »
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Yesterday we told you about The Eatery, a new iPhone app from San Francisco-based Massive Health. The app lets users snap photos of their meals, rate how healthy they... Read more »
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The boardroom windows at ON24 look out over San Francisco’s Moscone Center, the city’s largest convention complex. Every year, Moscone is home to giant events like Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Oracle... Read more »
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Years ago, Bellevue, WA-based Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) placed a big bet. It thought that an Intel-backed wireless technology called WiMax would become the foundation of the “4G” broadband data networks that... Read more »
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Time for our periodic data-driven roundup of funding news, acquisitions, and other developments in the Bay Area business and technology sphere.
$270 million—The value of Yahoo’s acquisition of New York-based... Read more »
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Do phones, food, photos, and fitness mix? Massive Health is hoping they do. The San Francisco mobile health startup, which debuted last spring with $2.25 million in seed funding from Felicis... Read more »
