Visterra gets $8M to advance flu drug, acquires dengue drug
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Visterra’s lead experimental drug is aimed at a disease which - despite being responsible for 50,000 deaths every years in the U.S. - is as...
View ArticleIdenix files suits against Gilead on eve of expected drug approval
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Idenix Pharmaceuticals says that the enrollment of patients in a mid-stage trial of its lead drug aimed at hepatitis C has begun, even as...
View ArticleEMD Serono spinoff looks to develop a pill for infertility
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email A new company based on technology developed by Rockland-based EMD Serono is looking to develop a pill to replace the hormone injections now...
View ArticleWindSail Capital raises $20M for 1st clean energy fund
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Boston-based WindSail Capital Group, which lends to clean energy-related businesses in need of growth financing, has...
View ArticleCFO of Aveo to resign seven months after drug failure
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email The chief financial officer of Aveo Oncology, who helped bring the Cambridge company public in 2010 and has stayed on since the company’s...
View ArticleGerman firm Menck to open energy-efficient windows plant in Mass.
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ German window maker company Menck will open a manufacturing and distribution plant in Chicopee, Mass., to...
View ArticleAmazon drones could deliver your order... in 4-5 years
Emily Parkhurst Staff Writer- Puget Sound Business Journal Email | Twitter | LinkedIn | Google+ Amazon is developing drones to deliver packages. That was the surprise that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos...
View ArticleIronside Group to hire 50 over next year
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ The Ironside Group, a Lexington, Mass.-based technology consulting firm focused on IBM products, expects to add...
View ArticleAkamai to acquire security firm Prolexic for $370M
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Akamai Technologies said Monday it's reached a deal to acquire Florida-based cloud security firm Prolexic Technologies...
View ArticleEMC, Pure Storage trade charges in escalating legal battle
Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal The legal battle between storage industry stalwart EMC and upstart Pure Storage escalated last week with the rivals filing new charges and...
View ArticleHeartWare buys CircuLite, aims to serve less-sick heart patients
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Doug Godshall, CEO of HeartWare International, says his company's acquisition of CircuLite “secures one of the most intriguing and...
View ArticleHelen Greiner: nothing unique about Amazon drones
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Helen Greiner, the iRobot co-founder now behind a Danvers startup developing flying robots, told the Wall Street...
View Article'Future of transportation' hackathon planned in Cambridge this month
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ The Massachusetts Department of Transportation and three tech organizations will host a hackathon event on Dec....
View ArticleDashed adds Christmas tree delivery for Boston area this season
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Brighton, Mass.-based Dashed — a premium food delivery service — is offering an online Christmas tree delivery...
View ArticleAcceleron to start trial in liver cancer patients early next year
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Newly-public biotech Acceleron Pharma says that it’s planning to start a trial of its cancer drug in patients with liver cancer early next...
View ArticleNuance Communications stock dips to lowest in 4 years
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications Inc.'s (Nasdaq: NUAN) stock was trading at $13.85 mid-Tuesday...
View ArticleFiksu continues big hiring as app marketing biz surges
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Boston-based Fiksu, which offers technologies for marketing mobile apps, expects to add about 100 employees over the...
View ArticleBill cracking down on patent trolls passes U.S. House
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Innovation Act, a bill that aims to crack down on the "patent...
View ArticleThermo Fisher's $3.2B bond sale knocked by analysts, ratings services
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Analysts at one investment firm are already criticizing Thermo Fisher’s $3.2 billion bond offering announced yesterday, saying the move will...
View ArticleGainers and losers among publicly-traded biotechs for Dec. 2-6
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Here are some of the companies with the biggest stock movement for the week of Dec. 2-6 among Massachusetts-based biotech, pharmaceuticals...
View ArticleQLogic poaches EMC engineering exec to be new CEO
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Prasad Rampalli, senior vice president for an engineering division at EMC, has been hired as president and CEO...
View ArticleAkamai acquisition rumors swirl; shares trade higher
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Rumors are swirling that Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) could be acquired by...
View ArticleIRobot stock surges after Roomba-related upgrade
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Shares in iRobot were up by 17 percent Tuesday afternoon, likely because the company was upgraded to "Strong...
View ArticleFive big stories from Boston's public tech firms in 2013
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ From Nuance's Siri connection to EMC's legal battles, here are five of this year's key stories from public tech firms...
View ArticleCEO at EMC rival Violin Memory is fired
Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal Santa Clara, Calif.-based Violin Memory fired CEO Donald Basile on Monday, ending his hopes for redemption in the flash storage industry. Basile's...
View ArticleNasuni awarded patent allowing file systems to 'grow forever'
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Natick, Mass.-based Nasuni, a cloud-based data storage service firm, was awarded a patent that covers the...
View ArticlePure Storage, EMC trade charges in escalating legal battle
Courtesy Pure Storage, a flash-memory storage company led by Scott Dietzen, has accused EMC of illegally stealing one of its units to see the technology it was using. EMC has accused Pure of patent...
View ArticleEMC launches new emerging tech division, poaches Symantec exec to lead it
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ EMC Corp. said Friday it has formed a new Emerging Technology Products Division, and announced that Chirantan “CJ”...
View ArticleReport: 'Contradictory' votes by FDA panel on Genzyme’s MS drug
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given a mixed review of Genzyme’s potential drug to treat multiple sclerosis,...
View ArticleTeradyne promoting Mark Jagiela to CEO
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Teradyne (NYSE:TER) on Thursday named Mark Jagiela as its new CEO effective Jan. 31, succeeding Michael Bradley....
View ArticleIRobot CEO: new $699 Roomba is a paradigm shift in vacuuming
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ On Tuesday, iRobot debuted a redesigned version of its popular Roomba home-cleaning robot — and CEO Colin Angle says...
View ArticleTrio of Massachusetts firms behind device to detect ‘Molly’, other drugs
Patricia Resende Managing Editor MHT- Boston Business Journal Email Hundreds of narcotics detection devices dubbed TruNarc are being used globally - and more than a dozen in Massachusetts - to help law...
View ArticleIRobot COO resigns as part of management changes
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Jeff Beck, COO of Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot Corp., has resigned from his position effective immediately, amid a...
View ArticleViolin Memory focused on 'war against EMC,' not IPO drop
Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal Violin Memory CEO Donald Basile has $162 million to help in his fight against EMC and others in the growing flash storage memory market. But...
View ArticleWayfair to sell products on Staples.com
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Boston home goods e-tailer Wayfair on Tuesday announced a new partnership with Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS), which will make...
View ArticleZeroTurnaround on hiring spree in Boston to grow sales of developer tools
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ ZeroTurnaround, a software development tools firm based in Estonia and Boston, has grown to a 50-person staff in Boston...
View ArticleGridco raises $10M ahead of launching power distribution tech
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Woburn, Mass.-based Gridco Systems, whose CEO is Sycamore Networks co-founder Naimish Patel, has reported raising $10...
View ArticleRobot parts seized at trade show after iRobot takes legal action against...
Patricia Resende Managing Editor MHT- Boston Business Journal Email Legal documents were served and robot parts were seized at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin after a Chinese firm...
View ArticleThermo Fisher to sell off parts of business outside Mass.
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Thermo Fisher will sell off parts of its business that brought in $225 million in revenue last year in order to satisfy European regulators...
View Article23andMe ignores FDA request to stop marketing genetic testing (Video)
Michael del Castillo Upstart Business Journal Technology & Innovation Editor Email | Twitter Last Friday, the Food and Drug administration sent a lengthy letter to Anne Wojcicki, the founder of...
View ArticleFrom Europe to Boston: 18 tech firms which crossed the pond (List)
Kyle Alspach and Sara Castellanos Boston Business Journal Whether it's the access to talent and capital, or the relatively close proximity and time zone — or all of the above — a number of...
View ArticleHubSpot hires Kinvey marketing VP Joe Chernov
Kyle Alspach Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ HubSpot on Wednesday announced it has hired Joe Chernov, who'd been VP of marketing at Boston startup Kinvey, as its VP...
View ArticleAlnylam gets $7M milestone from Genzyme for rare disease drug
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has received a $7 million milestone payment from partner Genzyme Corp. for its most advanced drug for a rare,...
View ArticleMoontoast partners with Toyota on Instagram ad
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Boston-based social marketing startup Moontoast debuted a social media advertisement on Instagram to advertise...
View ArticleChance of approval for Enanta's hep C drug increases with recent data
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email In its first full-year financial report since becoming a publicly-traded biotech, Enanta Pharmaceuticals reported a smaller loss than...
View ArticleEMC announces release of XtremIO all-flash storage array
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ EMC on Thursday announced the release of XtremIO, an all-flash storage array with unique architecture and...
View ArticleEMC sues competitor Pure Storage over ex-employees
Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal EMC is taking its legal battle over ex-employees jumping ship straight to the source, filing a lawsuit this week against flash memory startup Pure...
View ArticleBroad Institute founders give $100M gift for biomedical research
Don Seiffert BioFlash Editor- Boston Business Journal Email Multibillionaire Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have committed another $100 million to their namesake center devoted to for biomedical...
View ArticleIRobot shares hit all-time high; patent honor, Google may be the reasons
Sara Castellanos Technology Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Shares in iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) reached an all-time high on Tuesday, rising about 11 percent and closing at...
View ArticleBoston Dynamics, CyPhy Works among 2013's big robot bets
Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal It was a record year for funding and acquisitions in drones and other robots — with Amazon's unmanned delivery plans and Google's Boston Dynamics...
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