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Start Spreading the (Innovation) News With Xconomy in New York
Rebecca Zacks I’ve got Frank Sinatra on endless mental replay today and I’ll tell you why: I’m looking for a stellar journalist to start spreading the news about innovation in New York, New York....
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$12.7M Blows in for Wind Power Holdings, Epizyme Forges Alliance with...
Rebecca Zacks Dealmaking activity in New England’s tech and life sciences sectors continued at a blizzardy pace this week. Hold on to your hat… —Marlborough, MA-based biofuels developer Qteros raised...
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Introducing Tom Lee–He May Need a Nap, But He’s Never Too Tired To Talk About...
Rebecca Zacks Southeast Michigan, please be kind to Tom Lee. Thanks to some lame, opaque rues at an airline which shall remain nameless, the newest addition to the Xconomy team—who starts today as our...
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Meritage Swallows $2M
Rebecca Zacks San Diego-based drug developer Meritage Pharma raised $2 million in a round of equity-based financing planned to total $5.5 million, an SEC filing indicates. Meritage is out to develop a...
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HP Snaps Up Vertica, TechStars Bags $500K, Skyhook Partners With Intel and...
Rebecca Zacks Software, tech, and stealth dominated the week’s deals news. —TechStars Boston, the startup incubator program, raised about a quarter of a planned $2 million funding round. If completed,...
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Alnylam Settles One Lawsuit, Hit With Another; Living Proof Raises $16M,...
Rebecca Zacks New England’s biotech attorneys must be working overtime, if the week’s headlines are any indication. —Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam (NASDAQ:ALNY) announced it had settled a long-standing...
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Gemvara Grabs $15M, RueLaLa Spins Off, Mobiquity Launches With $5M, & More...
Rebecca Zacks New England’s tech firms inked a bunch of deals this past week. Here are a few of them. —Gemvara raised $15 million in a Series C funding round led by London-based Balderton Capital and...
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Xconomy to Tech Journalists: Help Us Take an Even Bigger Bite Out of the Big...
Rebecca Zacks It’s been less than a month since we launched Xconomy New York, and (to none of our surprise, really) we’re already finding there are more important innovation stories than even Arlene...
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Today’s XSITEing Opportunity: Galaxy Tab 10.1 Giveaway
Rebecca Zacks As if there weren’t already enough reasons to be looking forward to the June 16 Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, today we’re adding a thin, shiny reason...
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Xconomy’s New York Team Doubles in Size, Plots East Coast (Biotech) Takeover
Rebecca Zacks It’s easy to forget that Arlene Weintraub, Xconomy New York’s editor, has been running a one-woman show since joining us in April. Sure she’s had loads of help from her colleagues across...
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Sarah Schmid Suits Up for Xconomy Detroit
Rebecca Zacks Sarah Schmid’s high school and mine were rivals, but I’m not holding it against her. In fact, having a home-grown Michigan journalist take up the reins of Xconomy Detroit is so exciting...
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Knome Nabs $5M
Rebecca Zacks A Cambridge, MA-based personal genomics company has raised $5 million from one investor in a round that could eventually total $20 million, according to a regulatory filing. Launched in...
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Xconomy and WGBH Team Up to Cover the Boston Innovation Economy
Rebecca Zacks Boston area radio listeners may have noticed something pretty cool on Friday morning: Xconomy’s on-air debut, during “Morning Edition” on WGBH’s 89.7. The Xconomy Report segment, which...
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Oracle Scoops Up Endeca, Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures Back Foundation...
Rebecca Zacks New England’s tech and life sciences companies have been inking deals all over the place this past week. First up, the big surprise… —Cambridge, MA-based Endeca Technologies, an...
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Third Rock Launches Sage, Glaxo Malaria Vaccine Relies on Agenus Technology,...
Rebecca Zacks This week New England’s life sciences community saw a couple of cool new companies emerge and a few potentially important new treatments reach key milestones. —Boston-based Third Rock...
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Classing Up the Joint
Rebecca Zacks Regular visitors to Xconomy.com may have noticed that we did some redecorating over the weekend. Our new look and feel, courtesy of the crazy talented Rob Hunter of True Italic in New...
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Calling All Boston-Area Marketing Mavens…
Rebecca Zacks …or really just one great one: Xconomy needs your help. We’re busy cranking out terrific tech and life sciences journalism and putting on stellar events across the six cities in our...
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Almost Time for Face Time with Sam Waksal, Kevin Kinsella, and More
Rebecca Zacks Calendar double-take of the day: there are only two weeks left until our big New York biotech event—and your big chance to hang out with the likes of Sam Waksal and Kevin Kinsella....
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What Makes You Optimistic? Xconomists Chime In.
Rebecca Zacks One of the great pleasures of helping to grow Xconomy over the last five-plus years has been getting to know the diverse and fascinating group of people we call the Xconomists, and...
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Wanted: Star Journalist to Help Launch Xconomy in the Lone Star State
Rebecca Zacks It’s no secret that we’re on a little bit of an expansion bender these days (hey there, Boulder/Denver), and our next hit is going to be a big one: Xconomy Texas. With the combination of...
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