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
Recent posts
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The iPad 2 won’t be the only tablet turning up as a holiday gift this year: it’s finally got some real competition in the form of the more affordable Kindle Fire. But let’s... Read more »
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Time for our data-driven roundup of the latest deals news from around the San Francisco Bay Area.
$17 to $18 billion—The approximate amount Yahoo could raise by selling off its stakes... Read more »
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Ask Scott Raskin to name the number-one innovation that changed the world of project management and business collaboration, and he has a surprising answer: the whiteboard.
It’s not that the answer is nonsensical—Raskin... Read more »
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The United States seems stuck with a two-party political system. We don’t always have the same two parties—the Whigs were replaced by the Republicans in the 1850s, for example—but there doesn’t seem... Read more »
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Time for our roundup of the latest deals news from Bay Area technology companies, from biggest to smallest. And today’s biggest numbers are pretty big.
$1 billion—The approximate amount raised by... Read more »
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In a grand test of whether the Silicon Valley startup accelerator model can help university scientists get promising new technologies to market faster, 21 teams hand-picked for the National Science Foundation’s new... Read more »
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In Silicon Valley, there is no more pejorative term than “lifestyle business.” It’s usually applied to companies that do well enough to earn their founders and employees a living—sometimes a very good living—but... Read more »
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Time for our irregular, data-driven roundup of recent deals news from around San Francisco Bay. From biggest to smallest:
$50 million—The amount that Sunnyvale, CA-based Proofpoint hopes to raise in an... Read more »
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For about six months now, I’ve been trying to get Kris Duggan to change the name of his company. To me, “Badgeville” manages to be both faddish and inaccurate:... Read more »
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If you’re a technology company, it’s painful to bury an obsolete product before it’s well and truly dead. Most established companies can’t bring themselves to do it, choosing instead to keep limping... Read more »
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Start your week off right with our data-driven roundup of deals and M&A news from San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
$18 million—New venture funding for solar photovoltaic module manufacturer Tigo... Read more »
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Will the startup accelerator model that’s proved so popular and successful in the Web and mobile sectors also help to boost entrepreneurship in other industries, such as healthcare and cleantech? In... Read more »
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If you’ve already bought someone a gift card for the holidays, don’t read the rest of this article. It’ll just make you feel bad.
Okay, still with me? It turns out most gift... Read more »
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Here’s your one-stop, data-driven roundup of deals news around the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few days.
$110 million—The cash price fetched by Jobs2Web, the San Mateo, CA-based... Read more »
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Any iPad owner who uses Flipboard a lot knows the familiar disappointed feeling: You left your iPad at home, you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, and you just want to... Read more »
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Some Silicon Valley CEOs moonlight as racecar drivers, others as winemakers. Gary Bloom, the outgoing CEO of San Mateo, CA-based eMeter, is probably the only one who spends... Read more »
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I’m a power user of Evernote, the Web-based notekeeping service used by more than 16 million people around the world. I’ve got Evernote’s applications and extensions installed on my Mac, my... Read more »
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Time for our irregular, data-driven review of recent Bay Area funding and M&A news and other developments. From biggest to smallest:
$3.4 billion—The amount German business software giant SAP (NYSE: SAP... Read more »
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Video editing software is way too hard to use.
At least, that seems to be what most consumers think. It explains why most of the videos you’ll find on YouTube and other... Read more »
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It’s been a while since our last data-driven news roundup of Bay Area business and technology news. Here are some of the choicest tidbits from the last few days, from biggest to smallest:... Read more »
