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Print Edition: Week of November 4, 2009

Previous: October 21, 2009

Exclusive Reports

• MHT All-Star Rodney Brooks: Roots of an industry
• MHT All-Star Peter Antoinette: Nanotech explorer
• MHT All-Star Maura Banta: Education mission
• MHT All-Star David Beisel: Geek pride
• MHT All-Star Omid Farokhzad: Thinking small
• MHT All-Star Eric Giler: In a new groove
• MHT All-Star Gail Goodman: Discipline and balance
• MHT All-Star Scott Griffith: Global thinking
• MHT All-Star Scott Kirsner: Community guy
• MHT All-Star Joseph Kvedar: Health care evangelist
• MHT All-Star Patrick Larkin: Dressed for success
• MHT All-Star Stephen Orenberg: Security starter
• MHT All-Star Dharmesh Shah: Unlikely entrepreneur
• MHT All-Star Roger Tung: Life saver
• MHT All-Star Russell Wilcox: Passionate entrepreneur
• All-Star Voices: Past MHT All-Stars sound off on recession, cleantech, entrepreneurship
• The Pitch: Textaurant seeks funds to grow its text messaging service system
• Real Deal: What companies are moving, staying or relocating?
• Changing Places: Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?
• How I See It: Success in a biotech launch starts with a great team
• Policy Tracker: Smart grids get $3.4B; Small biz win 43% of DOE awards
• Startup Scene: State of open source software at 25

Opinion

• Innovation continues to thrive in New England

Latest News

• Mass. claims $2M for statewide broadband service [Friday]
• STR Holdings in IPO after 65 years [Friday]
• LogMeIn aims for $60M offering [Friday]
• Boston Scientific pays $296M to settle Guidant allegations [Friday]
• Gloucester Pharmaceuticals’ lymphoma drug wins FDA OK [Friday]
• Beerman takes CEO post at RXi Pharmaceuticals [Friday]
• Past and present innovators take center stage at MassTLC Awards [Friday]
• Facet Solutions acquires Archus Orthopedics [Friday]
• N.E. researchers share grants for infectious diseases [Friday]
• Mass. solar installers worry over end of rebates [Friday]
• Struggling Textron finds success with drone planes [Friday]
• ARPA-E awards $33M to Mass. cleantech firms [Friday]
• Online heating oil price reports aim for lowest cost delivery [Friday]
• EnerNOC posts first quarterly profit [Thursday]
• Zeemote shuts down, plans sale of assets [Thursday]
• PerkinElmer newborn screening platform gets FDA clearance [Thursday]
• Shire's Gaucher drug gets FDA priority review [Thursday]
• Health IT firm Quantros opens Marlborough office, plans new hires [Thursday]
• Bitwave dips into debt funding for $1.3M [Thursday]
• Evergreen Solar moves manufacturing to China [Thursday]
• Block Engineering’s explosive detection tech grabs federal funding [Thursday]
• World Energy to receive up to $2.5M from stock sale [Thursday]
• Medical device firm Facet Solutions pulls in $3.6M [Thursday]
• Google CEO Schmidt: On tech, innovation, Google Wave and Maps Navigation [Wednesday]
• Microsoft announces 800 layoffs; 4% of Mass. workers affected [Wednesday]
• Pro-Pharmaceuticals grabs another piece of $6M funding round [Wednesday]
• Synta sees profit gain on broken GSK deal [Wednesday]
• Job cuts help CombinatoRx narrow Q3 loss [Wednesday]
• Werner Schaefer joins Neuroptix board [Wednesday]
• Google enables customized content with Friend Connect [Wednesday]
• Cattini takes helm at social media firm Awareness [Wednesday]
• Boston Millennia, Polaris benefit in $400M Athenix buyout [Wednesday]
• General Dynamics, Raytheon in $17M gun system deal [Wednesday]
• Sullivan takes Textron Systems’ CFO reins; Condon retires [Wednesday]
• Chipmaker Adapteva grabs $1.5M in first funding [Wednesday]
• MassTLC honoree Beranek traces a trail of tech and business achievement [Wednesday]
• Startup Litl launches Internet-enabled computer [Wednesday]
• GenArts buys digital animation firm Wondertouch [Wednesday]
• MassTLC merges MassNetComms into the fold [Tuesday]
• Alnara appoints chief medical officer Brettman [Tuesday]
• SV Life Sciences appoints new partners Ryan and Wachtman [Tuesday]
• J&J to cut 7,000; Mass. impact unclear [Tuesday]
• Startup Watch: Five you should follow [Tuesday]
• Harvard boosts wind power usage [Tuesday]
• Nanocomp award extends bullet-proof armor contract [Tuesday]
• Genzyme manufacturing plant gets EU OK [Tuesday]
• DataLogix moves to Colo. following NextAction merger [Tuesday]
• Personalized cancer therapy firm On-Q-ity lands $21M [Tuesday]
• Boston Scientific stent gets European approval [Tuesday]
• John Frederick takes CFO role at Open Solutions [Tuesday]
• CashStar snags $5M, Home Depot retailing; plans new engineering hires [Monday]
• Greylock Partners establishes West Coast presence with $575M fund [Monday]
• Insulet aims for $61.5M public stock offering [Monday]
• Harvard students win mobile app contest [Monday]
• Seaside launches trial for autism treatment [Monday]
• RunMyErrand attracts West Coast first-round funds [Monday]
• RNAi startup Cequent raises $3.4M [Monday]
• GTC Biotherapeutics pulls in $10M from shareholder [Monday]
• Nano-concrete idea cements win in MIT pitch contest [Monday]
• Pulmatrix lands $32M in multiple fundings [Monday]