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September 6, 2010
Shire launches Facebook page for Gaucher disease month
Pfizer ends brain cancer vaccine deal with Celldex
EIQnetworks adds on to latest funding, bumping it to $2M
BP closes $98M buyout of Verenium biofuels business
Medical imaging startup Life Image raises $5.2M
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- Stata, Gordon head up 2010 MHT All-Stars
- Clearwire, Sprint, Comcast break Boston's 4G floodgate
- Second Wind to move manufacturing to larger Newton site
- New England tech firms play in weather-related product sector
- Ze-gen considers continuing New Bedford plant operations
- Scvngr launches local rewards games in Boston
- New England startups ready to lead recovery
- Salary.com selling for $80M to Kenexa
- Staples to begin selling Kindles
- Millivision emerges with passive airport security scanner
- Stata, Gordon head up 2010 MHT All-Stars
- Clearwire, Sprint, Comcast break Boston's 4G floodgate
- Netezza CEO Baum guides data storage firm through downturn
- Covidien wraps up sale of sleep products unit
- MIT scientists discover way to make sponges' cancer-fighting chemicals
- Yale-developed tools fix broken DNA strands
- Medical imaging startup Life Image raises $5.2M
- EnerNOC eyes growth by acquisition
- PerkinElmer pulls in $500M from sales of IDS unit
- AG: Levy's actions endangered BIDMC’s reputation
The PITCH
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The Pitch: New Hampshire startup Solar Edison has a new hybrid solar module that produces 440 watts per hour, and it's seeking $32 million to open a factory, finish the world patent application and apply for UL approval.
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Millivision emerges with passive airport security scanner
Millivision Inc. of Deerfield has come up with an airport security scanner designed to detect airport security threats hidden under clothing — without exposing passengers’ private body parts to scrutiny. The device is based on millimeter wave technology spun out of UMass Amherst.
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Women to Watch 2010
Mass High Tech’s Women to Watch program honors 10 New England-based women each year who are leading the way in entrepreneurship, technological innovation and lifelong learning.
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Honoring the 2010 Mass High Tech All Stars
Mass High Tech has named 16 New England tech sector leaders as recipients of the 2010 MHT All-Stars Awards, including Distinguished Achievement Award winners Ray Stata, founder of Analog Devices Inc., and Bernard M. Gordon, founder of Analogic Corp. and NeuroLogica Corp.
The 2010 honorees in the 15th Annual MHT All-Stars Awards, represent fields such as biotech, energy, storage, medical devices, Internet, communications and software. In addition to launching and growing companies, the honorees are active in helping the New England innovation economy to thrive. See the list of this year's recipients.
The honorees will be recognized by hundreds of attendees at an awards event on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. Tickets are available now.
In addition, each honoree will be profiled in a special report in Mass High Tech on Oct. 27. See the profiles of past recipients.
Tech Forums
Mass High Tech hosts four tech-focused forums throughout the year that include panel discussions on issues of concern for the bio, cleantech, emerging tech and finance industries.
Watch here for information on upcoming forums and highlights from recent forum events:
- Finance Forum: Battle of the Investors
You've heard that more than half of all venture capitalists believe that the VC investment model is broken. At the same time, angel investors are becoming more active than ever in New England.
So where should entrepreneurs turn? How does the changing world of equity investment affect tech entrepreneurs?
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010
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One Federal Street
Boston, MA
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Mass High Tech annually honors New England technology companies that use their innovation to improve their communities as part of our Tech Citizenship Awards program. Now is the time to detail how your organization has helped charities and other non-profits through financial contributions, staff time, technology or other forms of assistance. The 24 outstanding tech citizens were honored at a breakfast event at the Seaport Hotel. Read about their charitable efforts and learn how they met the criteria to be named a Tech Citizen. Their stories offer ideas from which we can all learn.
Know a generous company? Nominations are open for the 2010 Tech Citizenship Awards.
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Mass High Tech’s 2010 Technology How-To Toolbox covers the issues concerning high tech business and how to tackle them — issues ranging from choosing when to expand your business abroad and how to attract VC funding to choosing an MBA program and using social networking to grow your business.
- How to use social networking to grow your business
- How to handle the big IP challenges
- How to attract venture capital
- How to hire an attorney for your company
- How to generate sales leads
- How to get more from continuing education
- How to handle information security
- How to hire a temporary agency
- How to find an angel investor
- How to save energy for your company
- How to select a meeting venue
- How to negotiate commercial real estate deals
- When to expand your business abroad
- How to choose and make the most of an MBA program
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Shire wants you to 'Like' them
Shire plc has launched a Facebook page in honor of National Gaucher Awareness Month – a move designed to link the name of the company, and the name of the rare disease its drug, VPRIV, is treating. The drug sped to approval in March because the FDA urgently needed to blunt against shortages of a rival drug, Cerezyme, made by Genzyme Corp. For every visitor to the Facebook page who “Likesâ...
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Views from the front lines of the New England tech economy
How to keep Generation Y in New England after college
With the start of each school year, 350,000 students flock to Greater Boston. But, after three or four Beanpot tournaments and Head of the Charles races, many of these Massachusetts-educated students move out of the area. So the question is: how do we keep them here and happy?
Health data breaches bring regulation and cost to providers
Under the stimulus and health care reform bills, the federal government is investing billions in the development of electronic health records. But there is a cost to putting patients’ medical records into electronic form – data breaches, the intentional or unintentional loss of personal and confidential information.
Mass. needs to expand support of 'middle-skill' jobs
Massachusetts’ innovation-driven economy has positioned us to thrive in the 21st century. A gap in work force skills and the commonwealth’s training and education policies threaten to undermine our state’s sustained economic recovery.
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