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Print Edition: Week of July 3, 2009

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Exclusive Reports

• 3Com spawns a startup legacy, 30 years later
• Ocean Spray, Welch's pursuing scientific claims of fruits
• Carbon credit market stays strong
• Newly united Semilab eyes photovoltaics
• The Pitch: Innovative Audio aims for wireless stereo speaker transmission
• OwnerIQ, ScanScout, ChoiceStream target online ad models
• Airvana, Starent Networks, Acme Packet still growing in telecom
• Zoom Technologies updates its modem market
• Fast pace, less funding define TechStars
• Tech news from around the U.S.
• The Mover: Zafgen’s Matthias Jaffé juggles multiple roles
• Changing Places: Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?

News Columns

• Shaky biotech partnerships haunt disease foundations
• Gadget Review: What it’s like to live with the Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS
• The Startup Scene: After the iPhone app rush: the future of mobile applications

Inside

• Inside Social Media: Companies talk social media — via Twitter
• Inside Social Media: Social media: Watch your step
• Inside Social Media: Social media is about building relationships
• Inside Social Media: Recipe for social media success
• Inside Social Media: How people are using social media
• Inside Social Media: Social media's value not measured by friend counts

Opinion

• How I See It: Community tools needed to improve STEM education
• How We See It: Social media brings new corporate rules
• How I See It: Engaging young people in STEM is a community job
• Policy Tracker: Baby boomers as entrepreneurs; Obsolete work cell phone tax

Latest News

• NH signs with ConEd for wind power [Thursday]
• Northeastern to launch clean energy-focused master’s degree [Thursday]
• Conn. reopens solar rebate program with new funds [Thursday]
• Sepracor depression drug disappoints in trial [Thursday]
• IMS Health names Kimberly Gray as chief privacy officer [Thursday]
• Interleukin Genetics to sell AJG Brands unit [Thursday]
• Proliance files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy [Thursday]
• Storage startup ActiFio stores away $4M [Thursday]
• Clean tech VC investments on the rise [Thursday]
• Sapient buys N.Y. firm Nitro Group [Thursday]
• Boston life science center pulls in $350M loan [Wednesday]
• AMAG wins FDA approval for kidney drug [Wednesday]
• DOE awards $750K to Marine Renewable Energy Center [Wednesday]
• $10M General Dynamics deal keeps Maine, Vermont workers busy [Wednesday]
• Report: Titleist golf ball maker Acushnet laying off 77 workers [Wednesday]
• Biotech CombinatoRx to merge with Canada’s Neuromed Pharma [Wednesday]
• Cambridge’s Biogen inks $500M deal for MS drug [Wednesday]
• VC-backed M&As down in Q2 [Wednesday]
• LogMeIn kicks off first tech IPO of 2009 [Wednesday]
• Skyhook to provide location tech to Dell [Tuesday]
• Mass. seeks bids for solar power installations [Tuesday]
• NMT Medical adds $4M loan to coffers [Tuesday]
• Phase Forward, GSK sign multi-million dollar deal [Tuesday]
• Nasdaq issues delisting notice to Biopure [Tuesday]
• Startup Watch: Five you should follow [Tuesday]
• R.I. bond sale aids state education, energy tech [Tuesday]
• Court favors Internet security firm, Kaspersky Lab [Tuesday]
• Stealthy VigLink lands Google Ventures funds [Tuesday]
• Five-year Raytheon defense deal nets nearly $6M [Tuesday]
• Yahoo expected to shut down Maven Networks [Tuesday]
• Chip maker Semilab restructures U.S. operations [Tuesday]
• Mobile news firm, Fluent Mobile, launches iPhone app [Monday]
• Bhatia, Best, Kivel join Aura Biosciences advisory boards [Monday]
• Kenneth Bair heads R&D at Forma Therapeutics [Monday]
• Biogen shares drop on 10th Tysabri PML case [Monday]
• New funding, CEO and HQ for CloudSwitch [Monday]
• Software firm XyEnterprise sold to SDL [Monday]
• Stealthy Droid Works lands $100K NSF grant [Monday]
• Raytheon radar upgrades pull in $36M [Monday]
• Tangoe deals telecom platform to Atlanta firm [Monday]
• Naval radar deal nets $10M for Raytheon [Monday]
• Pilot study shows promise for combination weight loss device [Monday]