Prof. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington
Co-Founder and CEO, 23andMe
Former SVP of Discovery Research, Amgen
Chief Medical Officer, Humedica
Managing Partner, Rho Capital Partners and Rho Ventures
Founding Partner, General Assembly
Dean of the University of Colorado Law School
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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In this “always on” era of online products and services, there is a time-saving appeal to the product introduced today by San Diego-based SlimSurveys. It’s designed to help businesses gather feedback from customers without sucking up too much of their time.... Read more »
Seeing dogs riding in cars with their ears flapping in the wind is common in summer, but canines need much more exercise than sticking their heads out of windows. FitBark, based in the Forest Hills section of Queens, believes its wearable... Read more »
Russell Conard, co-founder of the Ann Arbor-based startup Ornicept, likes to describe himself as a computer scientist with a birding habit. Conard hooked up with Ornicept’s other co-founder, Justin Otani, who is the son of a wildlife biologist, while they... Read more »
We do it once a year. And every year, it’s one of the big highlights of the day.
I’m talking about the “Startup Xpo,” a showcase of some of the most intriguing young companies around Boston. It’s all part of XSITE,... Read more »
Technology continues to surge through the financial world like a gust of wind. But at times, it’s taken a bit of coaxing to bring about change.
At the New Jersey Technology Council’s recent FinTech Conference in Jersey City, technologists and financial... Read more »
Here’s some potentially big news in the world of Internet TV. This tech sector is dominated by giants—think Comcast, Verizon, Cisco, Microsoft, Netflix—but that doesn’t mean a smaller company can’t play with the big boys.
That company would be Azuki Systems,... Read more »
If they weren’t outdated already, 1980s innovations like the Clapper and the medical alert pendants of “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” fame may have met their 21st century match in a new gesture sensing technology developed by University of... Read more »
People were buzzing at least week’s Telematics Update conference about the dawn of the 4G car, made possible starting in 2014 thanks to a partnership between General Motors and AT&T. In my informal, off-the record poll, executives running some of... Read more »
Just under two weeks to go before our blowout event of the year: XSITE 2013: Boston’s Tech Revival at Babson College on Wednesday, June 19. (Full agenda here.)
Tom Leighton, the CEO and co-founder of Akamai, will set... Read more »
It’s suddenly a busy week for fundraising news around the Boston-area innovation scene, and it’s only half over:
—Affirmed Networks, an Acton, MA-based startup that sells software for improving wireless networks, has raised $51 million in Series C financing.... Read more »
A pair of Seattle startups aren’t saying much publicly, but SEC filings show that Seeq and Highline have the ears and wallets of some investors. Apex Learning also raised new capital. In other news, WhitePages acquires Mr. Number, Seattle’s presentation software... Read more »
As companies large and small try to figure out where they fit in with cloud computing and IT services, a competitive landscape has evolved where everyone is vying to create the next big innovation.
BMC Software, a 33-year-old firm, is making... Read more »
When I was in college, back in the 1990s, new students curious about what their university’s town had to offer relied on the local alternative weekly newspaper’s annual guide to places to go and things to do.
Published in late summer,... Read more »
Last Friday morning, Xconomist Henry Balanon, co-founder and director of mobile at app development shop Detroit Labs, sent an e-mail through the Madison Building, Detroit Labs, and Bizdom e-mail lists telling respondents that, effective at the end of the... Read more »
Attendance at the annual Wireless-Life Sciences Convergence Summit in San Diego has remained relatively steady in recent years (the first conference was held in 2006), but there has been a phase change in the industry over the past year. As with... Read more »
Nuance Communications, the voice recognition technology company, is making its second major Seattle-area acquisition, spending $80 million in cash for Tweddle Connect, an in-car content delivery system developed by a unit of Detroit-based Tweddle Group.
Burlington, MA-based Nuance—whose Dragon Drive... Read more »
[Updated 4:20 pm] An acquisition, a product launch, some executive shuffles, and more in this collection of recent tech-news headlines from around the Boston area:
—Nuance Communications, the Burlington, MA-based speech-recognition software company, is digging deeper into... Read more »
When “guided search” platform ChaCha hired Dan Hodges in March to be its president the company also set up a New York office for him to head up its growth.
ChaCha is a mobile Web platform for getting questions answered with... Read more »
It was a week of diverse news from San Diego’s life sciences community, even with the Memorial Day holiday. From digital health to drug development, and a new center for stem cell imaging, here’s our wrap-up.
—The Eighth Annual Wireless-Life Sciences... Read more »
CEO and Founder, Intellectual Ventures
President and CEO, Biocom
Director, QB3
Chairman and CEO, Accelerator
Assoc. Dir. Of Mobility Research, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
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