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• From Career Ladder to Jungle Gym: Reid Hoffman Speaks at Babson

  Seniors graduating last weekend from Babson College, the entrepreneurship-focused campus just outside Boston, were treated to a commencement speech from someone who’s got to be one of their biggest heroes: Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder, executive chairman, and former CEO of LinkedIn... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/25/12

  • IT

  • Education

  • Entrepreneurship

• Xconomist of the Week: Evan Snyder—Stem Cell Reality Check

  San Diego Xconomist Evan Snyder has been called a “stem cell revolutionary” and is regarded as a father in the field of stem cell research. When we talked in his office at San Diego’s Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, he told me he... Read more »

  Bruce V. Bigelow5/25/12

  • San Diego

  • Life Sciences

  • people

  • Stem Cells

• Can Pocket (née Read It Later) Become the TiVo of the Web?

  On the iPhone, the first page of the home screen—the one you see when you wake up the device—has room for only 20 apps, counting those in the dock. The iPad home screen holds 26. For me, that means the home... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/25/12

  • National

  • IT

  • startups

  • publishing

• Recorded Future, Liquid Metal Battery Raise VC Rounds

  Two Boston-area companies that don’t do a lot of talking in the media are making some noise today.

  They don’t have much in common, except that each is working on a really big technological problem in society with a pretty novel approach (and they’re getting... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/24/12

  • deals

  • startups

  • Technology

• EMC, Ember, Spindle, Yottaa, & More Boston-Area Deals

  A bunch of small-ish deals (and some not so small) to catch up on from the past week…

  —Hopkinton, MA-based EMC (NYSE: EMC) has acquired Syncplicity for an undisclosed price. The cloud-based file management startup, based in Silicon Valley, will be... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/24/12

  • deals

  • Roundup

  • Software

• Halo Gathers $1.1M From Patient Groups for Muscular Dystrophy Drug

  At first glance, the $1.1 million financing announced by Halo Therapeutics on Tuesday looked like your average case of a biotech startup scraping together enough money to get its early-stage compound into pivotal human trials. But this funding was anything but average.... Read more »

  Arlene Weintraub5/24/12

  • Life Sciences

  • Biotech

  • funding

• Thomas Massie, SensAble Founder and MIT Grad, Wins GOP Primary in KY

  The votes have been tallied, and the winner of the Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th congressional district is…Thomas Massie.

  With 45 percent of the popular vote, Massie, a Tea Party constitutional conservative, fended off a couple of establishment-backed competitors in the race. That... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/23/12

  • people

  • innovation

  • Politics

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