President and CEO, SRI International
Prof., Skaggs Inst. For Chemical Biology, Scripps Research Inst.
Associate member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
Managing director, the Foundry Group
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, CleanTECH San Diego
President & CEO, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute
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JEMS Technology, the Orion, MI-based mobile health company, announced late last month that it has signed a deal with the Southfield, MI-based International Caregiver Network (ICN) to offer JEMS’ remote monitoring platform to ICN’s network of home health and hospice... Read more »
In the beginning, the Wireless Health Convergence Summit was viewed as a way to bring innovation to reality, according to Rob McCray, a co-founder and CEO of the San Diego-based Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, which organizes the annual conference.
“At that... Read more »
When Twitter landed in Boston earlier this year it didn’t mess around, spending around $200 million for two startups. And we’re starting to see more of the payoff for that expensive shopping trip.
Today, as part of its efforts to... Read more »
A lot of professional sports teams try to steal away each other’s superstars. But what if one franchise tried to snatch its biggest rival’s entire fan base and all their ticket holders?
TeamSnap, a Boulder-based startup, recently accomplished something very much... Read more »
[Updated 12:55 pm] A CEO swap, some corporate M&A, student entrepreneurship, increased sales numbers, fundraising, and general deal-making in this quick trip through some Boston-area innovation headlines:
—Mobile advertising startup Adelphic is getting a new leader. The company says... Read more »
This week’s Seattle tech news roundup features a hefty venture round for mobile ad tracking startup HasOffers, the new STEM-focused chancellor of University of Washington Bothell, an Avanade study of social collaboration tools use in the enterprise, and a Seattle AWS... Read more »
What are the most powerful forces affecting innovation and the economy? That is one of the key questions facing the nation as we inch our way out of the economic mire.
Juan Enriquez may not have all the answers, but he... Read more »
In groups of twos and threes, the constituents lined up to take potshots at the assembled city officials.
“Just about any fifth-grader could do it better,” said Yan Digilov, speaking of the city’s request for proposals process. “We just hope to... Read more »
I’m on the phone with Andy Miller, and I don’t know where to begin.
Ask him about working with Steve Jobs at Apple? About how Leap Motion may or may not be the next Apple? Or what about how that $348... Read more »
We’ve all been there, standing in a superstore, shopping list in hand. We stare at the dozens and dozens of rows of consumer products before us and don’t have a clue where to find anything.
But if you’re in China, Appconomy... Read more »
Just a little over a month to go before our fifth annual flagship conference, XSITE 2013 (Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, & Entrepreneurship) at Babson College. The date is June 19, the theme is “Boston’s Tech Revival,” and the agenda is... Read more »
A prominent leader in the tech-startup community is moving on.
Walt Doyle, the longtime CEO of Where, which was acquired by PayPal in April 2011, has left the company as of today. Doyle served as general manager of PayPal Media... Read more »
The search for potential investments has led the team at ff Venture Capital in New York into strange waters.
John Frankel, a partner with the firm, says he decided to back UniKey Technologies after hearing about its founder’s appearance last year... Read more »
There’s some more fuel for the online database arms race today: Boston-based Cloudant has secured a new $12 million investment round.
The money will bankroll Cloudant’s general growth, which includes a new office in San Francisco, complementing Cloudant’s previous footprint in Boston,... Read more »
Orbotix got a little boost last week in its quest to make the Sphero robotic ball one of the must-have gadgets of 2013.
CEO Paul Berberian said the $4 million equity financing Orbotix raised last week will be used to ramp... Read more »
It’s time to catch up with Dyn. You know, the once-bootstrapped tech dynamo from Manchester, NH, which raised a big venture round last fall and has been making some acquisitions as of late.
Today the Web infrastructure company said it... Read more »
The San Francisco-based NewME Accelerator, a tech startup incubator focused on businesses led by minorities underrepresented in the tech world, is planning a Detroit pop-up accelerator May 29 to May 31. The three-day event is being held in partnership with... Read more »
The Pleasant Ridge, MI-based digital marketing and engagement company ePrize announced this week that it has acquired Promotions.com. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company did say it will retain 13 Promotions.com employees and fold them... Read more »
A big Taiwanese tech company you probably haven’t heard of is starting to make noise in the U.S. Based out of several hubs around the country, it is positioning itself to gain a foothold in the local market for chips used... Read more »
CEO and Co-Founder, Solazyme
Scientist and Managing Dir., Microsoft Research New England
Managing Director, Shaw Management Advisors
Founder and CEO, Trada
San Francisco · 6/3/13
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