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Xconomy Report: Big Bets on the Future of Boston Tech


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
We name the big players in the local startup scene and ask: Will they scale the heights — or flame out?
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Xconomy Report: Don't You Want (to Buy) Me, Baby?


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
There's a lot of activity in mobile advertising again, with venture capitalists pouring money into startups such as Jumptap, Session M and CraveLabs that promise to reach consumers with advertising anywhere they carry their phones.
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Xconomy Report: Shopping in Public


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A recently minted public company is trying to create the future of retail. Burlington-based Demandware, valued at over $700 million, makes software to help high-end brands reach more customers online.
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Xconomy Report: When Health's a Game


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Can playing video games make you healthier? That’s the idea behind the “gamification” of health care, a big trend we’re seeing in the Boston tech scene and beyond.
Technology

Xconomy Report: Charging Up


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Can anyone make a battery that's better than the status quo? That might be the turnaround for struggling clean-tech company A123 Systems, which says it has a lithium-ion battery for electric cars.
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Xconomy Report: Mobile Cashes In


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Mobile technology is in the air as Boston-area startups SCVNGR, Cartera Commerce and Crashlytics announce significant deals.
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Xconomy Report: Counting on 'Big Data'


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
The emerging field of "big data" could help revitalize the state’s tech economy — as long as it doesn’t collapse under the weight of its own hype. Also: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, GreenBytes and MassChallenge.
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Xconomy Report: Full 'Metal' Funding


By Gregory T. Huang & Erin Kutz
What’s catching Bill Gates’ attention these days? Local startup Liquid Metal Battery. Its technology could help the grid make better use of renewable energy sources.
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Xconomy Report: From Technology to the Tea Party


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Thomas Massie started a tech company and moved West ... and then moved back to Kentucky, where he's a Tea Party darling and favored to win the Republican nomination for Congress.
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Xconomy Report: You Don't Have to 'Like' Him


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Zuckerberg haters, relax: The social network giant has growing competition in the commerce realm from local startups such as CustomMade, Daily Grommet and Krush.
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Xconomy Report: E Pioneers!


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Everyone's waiting for Facebook's IPO. But sometimes it's good to remember our country's first social network. ...
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Xconomy Report: Fly the Googley Skies


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A year after Google acquired local startup ITA Software, it appears the giant's travel strategy is more about managing data than finding the best fares.  
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Xconomy Report: (Re)generating Excitement


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A couple of Cambridge companies are gaining ground with their regenerative medicine technology, which uses living cells and other natural materials to promote healing.
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Xconomy Report: Mobile Is Moving


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
While most of the tech world is talking about Facebook's billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram, a couple of local startups in mobile and social apps are making some noise of their own.
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Xconomy Report: Remembering Norman Priebatsch


By Xconomy.com
The life sciences entrepreneur is missing and presumed dead after a hiking accident in New Hampshire.
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Xconomy Report: Share and Share Un-Alike


By Xconomy.com
Kibits, a new social networking mobile app, allows users to control exactly what information gets shared with whom — so your colleagues will never, ever see that vacation pic.
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Xconomy Report: Let the Robot Reach the Top Shelf


By Xconomy.com
It's the biggest local deal of the year so far: Amazon has acquired a North Reading company that makes wheeled robots to move packages in warehouses efficiently.
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Xconomy Report: Video Game Medicine


By Xconomy.com
Could your child leave his next checkup with a prescription for a video game? Akili Interactive Labs hopes its game will be the first approved by the FDA as a medical device.
Technology

Xconomy Report: The Internet Never Forgets


By Xconomy.com
New England tech startups could be instrumental in changing the way companies market their wares in a digital world, with technology to help companies get their stories out on Facebook and merge advertising with mobile apps.
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Xconomy Report: Tech in the Air


By Xconomy.com
A Google-owned Cambridge software company will introduce a new reservation system for airlines, starting with Hyannis-based Cape Air.
Health Care

Xconomy Report: More Hope for Hep C


By Xconomy.com
The battle for hepatitis C drug market dominance rages on locally, with Vertex honing its drug Telaprevir and Enanta teaming with Novartis to create a new treatment.
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Xconomy Report: Stylin' Students


By Xconomy.com
Fashion isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you hear “Harvard,” but Xconomy has tracked down 19 young, fashion-focused internet companies with founders from the B-school.
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Xconomy Report: Corporate Eyes Are Watching You


By Xconomy.com
With video conferencing, your competitors can be just as bored as you are: Many video conferences are susceptible to corporate spying, according to Boston software company Rapid7.
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Xconomy Report: Finding The Next Facebook


By Xconomy.com
While most of the tech world is analyzing Facebook’s impending IPO, a new effort at Harvard University is trying to find the next Facebook — and keep it in Cambridge.
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Xconomy Report: It's Hard Out There For A Jerk


By Xconomy.com
An informal survey of Boston-area tech CEOs suggests that being a jerk may be much less beneficial than it used to be.
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Xconomy Report: Get Stupid, Student


By Xconomy.com
How can students prepare for the world they'll face in 10 years? Xconomy asked 22 innovators as part of a new national report on the future of education.
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Xconomy Report: How Green Was My Startup


By Xconomy.com
A new genomics technology company in Cambridge hopes to examine the genetic makeup of plants, animals and other organisms to find hot new drugs.
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Xconomy Report: More For Less In 2011


By Xconomy.com
Fewer deals, more money. That’s the takeaway from a new report on U.S. venture capital exits from 2011. Among the Boston companies that went public in that time: Zipcar, TripAdvisor and Carbonite.
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Xconomy Report: This Is Boston, Not Seattle... Right?


By Xconomy.com
It’s beginning to look a lot like the West Coast around here as Amazon reportedly considers opening an office in Cambridge.
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Xconomy Report: Fight Fat With Fat


By Xconomy.com
A new Boston firm has raised $34 million to develop drugs that tap into a new understanding of brown fat, a tissue that could help people burn off the more-familiar white fat.
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Xconomy Report: Protecting Online Privacy


By Xconomy.com
When you go online, do you know which eyes are watching you? Boston startup Abine is trying to give consumers more control over their personal information.
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Xconomy Report: Treatment For Parkinson's


By Xconomy.com
In this week's top life sciences and innovation news, Michael J. Fox's charity has given a local startup funding to improve Parkinson's treatment.
INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Nov. 25, 2011


By Xconomy.com
AOL co-founder Steve Case has invested in a Boston startup that's created a smartphone app popular among runners.
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Xconomy Report For Nov. 11, 2011


By Xconomy.com
If XL Hybrids' new venture succeeds, anyone could turn their gas-guzzling clunker into a hybrid electric car.
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Xconomy Report For Nov. 4, 2011

By Xconomy.com
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is recruiting at Harvard and MIT to tap into Boston's hot startup market — epitomized by fast-growing upstarts such as HubSpot, Gemvara, Kayak, TripAdvisor and Wayfair.
INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Oct. 28, 2011

Biogen Idec, the world's largest maker of injectable treatments for multiple sclerosis, has met its goals in a second clinical trial of the company's first pill for the disease.
INNOVATION

Xconomy Report For Oct. 21, 2011

A Boston-area tech company is creating the software for what could be the nation’s first wireless collision avoidance system for cars.

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