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Acquisitions are in the air in New England. Here’s what happened in the past week.
—Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the Web content and delivery giant of Cambridge, MA, made a move to tackle Web performance at the browser level, with the acquisition of... Read more »
Jonathan Schwartz, the former Sun Microsystems CEO who sold the server-and-software maker to Oracle for $7.4 billion in 2009, was in the hospital for surgery a couple of months ago. When he went to get an MRI, he noticed that the imaging... Read more »
Applied Proteomics hasn’t exactly been operating in stealth mode since it was founded five years ago. Co-founders David Agus, a cancer specialist at USC, and Danny Hillis, the MIT-trained computer scientist, gave TedMed talks about the startup’s technology, which provides... Read more »
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—San Diego’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals says Bydureon, its new once-a-week drug for treating Type 2 diabetes can hit the market as early as next month, after the FDA cleared Bydureon. The FDA rejected the Amylin’s drug twice before. An estimated 26 million... Read more »
—Peter Clarke of EE Times reported that San Diego’s Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) has acquired Andover, MA-based Pixtronix, a startup founded in 2005 to develop Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) display technology. Qualcomm, which confirmed the deal with EE Times but provided no details... Read more »
[Updated, Jan. 18, 2012---The Xconomist Report on the Future of Education is live---click here.]
As the presidential race picks up steam, you know that we will be hearing a lot—a lot more, that is—about the need to create jobs.... Read more »
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