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Rod Brooks Follows His Heart(land), Amazon Helps Out OLPC, the Broad Gets $400M, GT Solar Shines Over Big Contract, & More Deals News

Robert Buderi 9/8/08

Summer’s over, school’s back in session, and the deals were jumping in just about every sector as September got underway.

—IRobot co-founder Rod Brooks announced he was stepping down as the company’s CTO (but remaining on the board of directors) and taking a leave from his MIT professorship to devote full time to his new company, Heartland Robotics. Cambridge, MA-based Heartland will focus on developing industrial and workplace robots to... Read more »

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Web, browsers, google

Simon and the Google Chrome Logo: Separated at Birth?

Wade Roush 9/5/08

Has anyone else noticed the resemblance between Google’s logo for its new Web browser, Chrome, and the electronic game Simon, launched by Milton Bradley in 1978? Scroll down for a side-by-side comparison.

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One Laptop Per Child, Hardware, e-retail

Amazon to Manage XO Laptop Giveaway Program

Wade Roush 9/5/08

The “Give One, Get One” program introduced last holiday season by the Cambridge, MA-based One Laptop Per Child Foundation—which gave consumers in the United States and Canada the opportunity to buy two of the foundation’s XO... Read more »

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wwwade, comics, google

What Web Journalists Can Learn from Comics

Wade Roush 9/5/08

While the tech-blog world is exhausting itself testing and writing about Google Chrome, the new open-source Web browser released by the search giant on Tuesday, I’m still just having fun paging back and forth through... Read more »

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Biotech, RNAi, Alnylam

Alnylam Sees Opportunity in Turning Genes On, And Off

Luke Timmerman 9/5/08

A lot has been written about how Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, and plenty of other companies, see a gold mine in turning off problem genes through drugs based on the biological phenomenon called RNA interference, or RNAi. It... Read more »

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Broad Institute, MIT, Harvard

Broad Institute Will Sever Administrative—Not Research—Ties with MIT and Harvard, Becoming “Stand-Alone” Organization

Ryan McBride 9/4/08

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Management Guru Michael Hammer Dies at Age 60

Robert Buderi 9/4/08

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VC, entrepreneurs, Literacy

Xconomy Needs An Entrepreneur-Tennis Player to Take on the VCs

Robert Buderi 9/4/08

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energy, investing, cleantech

The Answer, My Friend, Is Certainly Not Blowing in the Wind—or the Corn

Mark Modzelewski 9/4/08

This is the last of my articles taking cleantech investing to task sector by sector (keep the hate mail coming, hippies!). The next few will focus on some areas I really... Read more »

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video, Web, Media

The 2008 Olympics: The Defining Moment for Video 2.0, or Opportunity Lost?

Matt Kaplan 8/26/08

[Editor's note: This Xconomist Forum post is a revised, updated version of an essay contributor Matt Kaplan wrote for the PermissionTV blog on August 9, 2008.]

Every four years... Read more »

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cloud computing, Web Services, amazon

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store—A Glimpse of Cloud Computing’s Future

Philip Jacob 8/22/08

Earlier this week, Amazon announced an important new feature in its cloud computing Web service offerings that should further cause those of us who work in technology to consider the way... Read more »

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