A new workshop opened last week in New York where developers can fine- tune their blockchain software.
IBM has set up a Bluemix Garage in SoHo within a Galvanize campus that also just opened in town. The “garage” is a place... Read more »
Vice President for Corporate Engagement, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Co-founder and partner at High Alpha
Director, Silicon Flatirons Centers' Entrepreneurship Initiative
CEO of Dynamis Corporation
CEO and co-founder of BoostSuite
Chair, Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute; Co-director, Center for Physiological Proteomics, The Scripps Research Institute
Vice president, chief strategy and operating officer of the Texas Medical Center
Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks
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A new workshop opened last week in New York where developers can fine- tune their blockchain software.
IBM has set up a Bluemix Garage in SoHo within a Galvanize campus that also just opened in town. The “garage” is a place... Read more »
San Antonio—The founders of Rising Barn didn’t even know each other when they started working on what would become their San Antonio, TX-based company, which uses software to build affordable housing with designs developed by an architect.
Pegy Brimhall... Read more »
Here we are at the midpoint of 2016 already. Time to look back on the past six months—and some of the top stories of the year so far.
The following represent a cross-section of what Xconomy offers on a daily basis:... Read more »
The word of the week was “moonshot,” as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer initiative convened a summit in Washington, DC. At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said... Read more »
As part of a national cancer “moonshot” initiative led by Vice President Joe Biden, the FDA said Wednesday it would retool the way it evaluates cancer treatments and tests.
But to what end?
The goals of the FDA’s new Oncology Center... Read more »
It’s a week for the history books. The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union last night, triggering worldwide financial fears and, perhaps, a breakup of the U.K. itself. Closer to home, Cleveland (pictured) celebrated LeBron James & the Cavaliers’... Read more »
Twilio, a Web communications company reportedly valued at more than $1 billion after a financing last year, raised $150 million in its initial public offering today, according to a press release.
The San Francisco-based company sold 10 million shares for... Read more »
There’s a number that has been quoted a lot by the cybersecurity industry in the past year: 209,000. That’s the number of unfilled U.S. jobs in the field as of March 2015, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics... Read more »
Familiar biotech names—not necessarily familiar for the right reasons—made news this week in biotech. Data from a hematology conference stoked dreams of approval, though still on a far horizon, for a couple drug makers. Long anticipated, Walgreens officially cut ties with... Read more »
If you blinked, you probably missed something this week in biotech. The nation’s biggest annual cancer meeting took place in Chicago, while biotech’s trade group held its annual confab in San Francisco. In Boston, there were more twists for a closely... Read more »
Austin — Aunt Bertha, an Austin, TX, company with a searchable database of social services providers, has raised a $5 million round of Series B funding led by Techstars Ventures as it builds an index of health and human services programs... Read more »
It was fitting this week that, in the lead-up to two of biomedicine’s biggest self-celebrations, we were served ample reminder of the industry’s expensive decisions gone wrong. This weekend, much of academia and industry involved in cancer will gather in Chicago... Read more »
Psychology students at Colorado State University will be getting a technological boost next semester, thanks to a new partnership between the Fort Collins, CO-based school and Boston-based technology startup Cognii.
Founded in 2013, Cognii will work with CSU faculty members to... Read more »
If you were thinking about selling your company for a couple billion dollars, now might just be the time to try it.
A day after Vista Equity Partners announced it would buy marketing automation software developer Marketo for $1.79 billion, the private... Read more »
The Obama administration’s ambitious long-term health study, dubbed the Precision Medicine Initiative, has tapped the Mayo Clinic to build a repository for biological samples collected from the study’s participants. Through the National Institutes of Health, the administration has awarded $142... Read more »
Memorial Day weekend may be fast approaching, but don’t fire up those grills yet: there’s plenty of headlines to dig into first in our biotech trip around the Xconomy network.
In New York, the nation’s most prestigious science competition changed sponsors... Read more »
Startup incubators and accelerators represent an important avenue of advancement in the tech industry for women and underrepresented minorities. And while several high-profile accelerators are taking specific steps to recruit companies led by diverse founders, progress is slow in coming.
That... Read more »
New FDA commissioner Robert Califf said Wednesday that the recent spike in drug approvals is no temporary phenomenon, thanks to a better understanding of biology and continued adoption of sophisticated technology throughout healthcare.
“I predict we’ll see of a flood of... Read more »
[Updated 6/6/16, 11:29 a.m. See below.] Beneath the carefully rehearsed pitches, corny one-liners, and overall pomp and circumstance at Techstars Boston’s 10th demo day Wednesday night, it’s clear that the startup accelerator’s local outpost continues to build solid (if... Read more »
A quick housekeeping note: Starting this week, we are combining our East Coast and West Coast biotech roundups into a single weekly post that will also include highlights from our other cities and regions, including Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Xconomy’s latest... Read more »
Several days after one study ranked Boston as the U.S. city best positioned to capitalize on the transition to a digital economy, a new report bolsters Massachusetts’s tech credentials—but with some important caveats that could hinder the Bay State’s growth.
Last... Read more »
Want to make a few extra (thousand) bucks? For software developers, it’s possible if you add a few trending programming languages to your resume, according to Seattle-based PayScale, a crowdsourcing and data analytics company that seeks out and provides salary information.... Read more »
CEO, FullContact
Founder, New Tech Colorado
Founder and CEO, Trada
Co-founder and CEO, Galvanize
CEO, National Center for Women & Information Technology
Dean of the University of Colorado Law School
Chairman, founder, and CEO of SomaLogic
Managing director, the Foundry Group
Founder and CEO, Vokl
CEO, Next Great Place
Director, Silicon Flatirons Centers' Entrepreneurship Initiative