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Ion Torrent, Stealthy Company Tied to Harvard’s George Church, Nabs $23M Venture Deal

Ion Torrent Systems, a company advised by Harvard University genomics pioneer George Church, has raised $23 million in new capital to develop what it calls on its website “groundbreaking and highly disruptive technology” and to hire people who “want to do what it takes to put a dent in the universe.”

The company, which has a location near Yale University in Guilford, CT, and one in San Francisco, has... Read more »

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National
wwwade, IT, photography

Is it Real or Is It High Dynamic Range? How Software Is Changing the Way We Look at Photographs

Wade Roush 11/6/09

You know how listening to music on a friend’s pricey Bose headphones makes it harder to tolerate your tinny little speakers at home, or watching your favorite show on a high-definition screen spoils you for regular... Read more »

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Seattle
Entrepreneurship, culture, Venture Capital

A Tale of Three Cities: How Boston, Boulder, and Seattle Measure Up as Tech Innovation Hubs

Gregory T. Huang 11/6/09

I was chatting with a couple of local investors at the TechStars (seed fund and mentorship program) event in Seattle on Wednesday. They thought the VC panel discussion of the startup climate and culture in... Read more »

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Biotech, cancer, Drugs

Gloucester Pharma Wins FDA Approval of Drug for Rare Skin Cancer

Luke Timmerman 11/5/09

Gloucester Pharmaceuticals has won clearance to start selling its first cancer drug in the U.S.

The Cambridge, MA-based biotech company said today it has gotten the green light from the FDA to start marketing its romidepsin... Read more »

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energy, Solar, cleantech

Evergreen Solar to Move Solar Panel Production from Massachusetts to China

Ryan McBride 11/5/09

[Updated and corrected---8:30 pm ET on 11/05/09]Marlboro, MA-based Evergreen Solar (NASDAQ:ESLR) said it will move its solar panel production from Massachusetts to China—dealing a blow to the clean technology economy in the... Read more »

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Life Sciences, innovation, Xconomy Forum

Build it Boldly, and Pharma Will Come—and More Wisdom from Boston’s Biotech and Pharma Elite at Xconomy Forum

Ryan McBride 11/5/09

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IT, Web, google

Six Easy Pieces: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Talks with Boston Journalists

Wade Roush 11/5/09

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energy, photovoltaics, Solar

Konarka Finding New Partners for Power Plastic, But Faces Major Market Hurdles

Ryan McBride 11/5/09

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Life Sciences, deals, pharma

Enlight Biosciences Forms Partnership with Abbott Labs

Ryan McBride 11/4/09

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San Diego
wireless, acquistions, deals

Keeping Details to a Minimum, San Diego’s Jitterbug Announces Acquisition of MobiWatch of Waltham, MA

Bruce V. Bigelow 11/4/09

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Xconomist Forum - Insight & Opinion

Entrepreneurship, Education, MIT

MIT Elevator Pitch Contest Takes Startup Salesmanship to New Level

Gary Hochman 11/2/09

How does $300,000 an hour sound? Walking away with $5,000 for his 60-second pitch, the winner of Thursday night’s MIT $100K Elevator Pitch Contest (EPC), Rouzbeh Shahsavari, seemed pretty excited about... Read more »

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IT, databases, Software

A Report from Boston’s First “Big Data Summit”

Amrith Kumar 10/23/09

The first meeting of the Boston Big Data Summit was held yesterday. Since the announcement on October 2, the event has had a great reception. Just over a hundred people attended,... Read more »

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Business School, Entrepreneurship, internships

Executives Through Experimentation: The B-School Internship Experience

Samuel Hawes 10/21/09

Business school applications require many thousands of words’ worth of essay questions, usually dealing with those universal but ephemeral corporate themes of Teamwork, Impact, and Dealing With Difficult Situations. Somewhere within... Read more »

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