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Seattle
Biotech, cancer, Allergies

Supersized Ambitions: VentiRx Aims to be Extra-Large Player in Cancer, Allergy Medicines

Luke Timmerman 1/7/09

They love their coffee at VentiRx. They love it so much that they named their San Diego- and Seattle-based biotech company after the extra-large size of beverage containers that Starbucks shrewdly branded for its menu. The name also happens to symbolize VentiRx’s supersize ambitions for creating new drugs against cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Naturally, I had to catch up with the company’s scientific co-founder, Rob Hershberg, at a Starbucks in downtown Seattle and order a venti coffee myself. (I think he... Read more »

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Boston
Roundup, Life Sciences, startups

Forma Emerges With Well-Formed Cancer-Drug Strategy, Biogen Idec Preps for Parkinson’s Drug Data, Endo Buys out Indevus, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

Rebecca Zacks 1/6/09

We’ve got some M&A activity, some board-room drama, and some cool new companies and drug-development strategies–the year’s off to an interesting start for New England’s life sciences firms.

—Forma Therapeutics, flush with $25 million from the... Read more »

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Seattle
startups, Web 2.0, Politics

How Blist Got Involved with Obama—the Inside Story

Gregory T. Huang 1/6/09

A Seattle startup is playing an important role in helping President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team get organized. As of yesterday, the Obama-Biden Transition Project has been using technology from Blist (pronounced as one syllable, and spelled... Read more »

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Boston
Life Sciences, Biotech, Companies

Molecular Insight Pharma Director Barlow Resigns Over Rift with Board

Ryan McBride 1/6/09

The former CEO and chairman of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:MIPI), David Barlow, resigned from the firm’s board of directors last week over differences with fellow directors, according to a press release from the Cambridge,... Read more »

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San Diego
digital media, wireless, people

Proclaiming the iPod is Dying, MP3.com’s Founder Launches A Web Site for Downloading Music to Your Cell Phone

Seth Hettena 1/6/09

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Boston
Life Sciences, deals, Biotech

Broad Institute Scientists’ Forma Therapeutics Raises $25M, Aims to Knock Out Underpinnings of Cancer

Ryan McBride 1/6/09

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Seattle
Roundup, deals, Venture Capital

EMC Buys SourceLabs, Qwell Raises $7M, Microsoft Layoff Rumors Rebuffed (For Now), & More Seattle-Area Deals News

Gregory T. Huang 1/6/09

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Boston
energy, deals, cleantech

Cleantech Engine Revved In ’08—Deals to Remember

Ryan McBride 1/6/09

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Boston
IP, Legal, strategy

The Bright Side of Nuclear Winter: Opportunities in the New, New Economy

Gene T. Barton and Gwilym Attwell 1/6/09

During the Internet revolution of the late ’90s, a well-known investor at a “Keiretsu Forum” boldly proclaimed that the division of the Internet landscape was akin to the great land grab... Read more »

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Boston
VC, innovation, India

India’s Innovation Front Lines, Part 7: Of Trains, Countryside, and The Great Indian Laughter Challenge

Vinit Nijhawan 1/5/09

Mumbai-Delhi, Tuesday, December 23—I boarded the overnight train to Delhi at Bombay Central Terminal (the mixed use of old and new city names for Bombay is a metaphor for old and... Read more »

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innovation, ideas, people

What Will Change Everything?

Linda Stone 1/1/09

What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see? The Internet, television, antibiotics, automobiles, electricity, nuclear power, space travel, and cloning—these inventions were born out of dreams,... Read more »

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Seattle
innovation, Technology, Markets

10 Technology Predictions From The Startup Whisperer

Matt Hulett 12/31/08

Here are my 2009 technology predictions. It was getting harder and harder since my post is starting to look a lot like everyone else’s posts. I look forward to a better... Read more »

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Boston
VC, innovation, India

India’s Innovation Front Lines, Part 6: Return to Pune, the Boston of India

Vinit Nijhawan 12/29/08

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San Diego
IT, people, Data Storage

A Call For Good Data Stewardship Before The Digital Deluge

Fran Berman 12/23/08

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Biotech, Politics, people

Biotech “Walks With Light,” But If We Don’t Start Explaining it Better, We’re “Cuckoo”

H. Stewart Parker 12/22/08

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Boston
VC, innovation, India

India’s Innovation Front Lines, Part 5: The Emerging Entrepreneurial Class

Vinit Nijhawan 12/22/08

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Seattle
cleantech, energy, policy

Will Biomass Power the Utilities of the Near Future?

Tom Eckmann 12/17/08

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Boston
VC, innovation, India

India’s Innovation Front Lines, Part 4: Of Hyper-Competition and Corruption

Vinit Nijhawan 12/16/08

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