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Print Edition: Week of October 7, 2009
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Exclusive Reports
- Real life advice for inventors
- Failed takeoff leaves entrepreneurs with orphaned IP
- Patents become more granular at tech companies
- Industry veterans share their dealings with noncompete agreements
- Tips to make noncompetes work — and work fairly
- Regulations, paperwork spark growth in e-discovery
- Female-led life sciences IP group works to protect blockbuster drugs
- SoundTag’s RFID tags help receivers find shipping crates
- The Pitch: Propel Careers aims to match interns and entrepreneurs
- Real Deal: What companies are moving, staying or relocating?
- Thought Leader: Open source based in co-dependence
- New England states need cooperative competition
Opinion
- It's time to bring some sanity to intellectual property
- How I See It: Economic growth through entrepreneurship, sound policy
- Patent Watch: Inventors chime in on music patents
- New Commerce office to assist entrepreneurs
- The ‘Bio Governor’ hails possibilities of life sciences
Latest News
- Biogen shares tumble on more MS drug-linked infections [Friday]
- Online sales-lead firm NetProspex closes $2M in equity [Friday]
- Presidential MIT visit: Obama touts cleantech, alternative energy [Friday]
- Molecular Insight signs global cancer therapy deal [Friday]
- Biocell Center opens amniotic stem cell bank in Medford [Friday]
- College students invade NERD for Windows 7 launch party [Friday]
- Wind Power Holdings raises $45M [Friday]
- Nuclea wraps up $3.4 million funding [Friday]
- Artaic founder and CEO Acworth doubles in paranormal investigating [Friday]
- WonderWorld to bring online 3-D virtual community to children [Friday]
- Consumer goods investment up, but healthcare dominates Q3 VC interest [Friday]
- Synta's failed drug target may be reborn from biomarker discovery [Friday]
- Lawrence General Hospital: A beacon of e-health success [Friday]
- Solar tech developer STR files for $212M IPO [Thursday]
- Allegro Diagnostics lands $2.8M SBIR grant for lung cancer diagnostics [Thursday]
- Thermo Fisher Q3 revenue falls, net income up on cost cuts [Thursday]
- Casenet collects $3M in venture debt [Thursday]
- Castile Ventures leads HealthGuru’s $3.2M VC round [Thursday]
- GE launches $250M healthcare IT fund [Thursday]
- DRC pulls in $3.9M to aid military vets’ injury program [Thursday]
- Mass., N.H., Vt. students to join aviation design engineering challenge [Thursday]
- WPI robotics team wins NASA lunar excavation contest [Thursday]
- A123 reported to be seeking $250M in loans [Wednesday]
- Holyoke data center project targeted for 2011 completion [Wednesday]
- Sensor firm Qualtré taps ex-3Com exec Masri as CEO, moves from Atlanta [Wednesday]
- Sun to cut 3,000 jobs [Wednesday]
- Illume Software adds $1M to launch iZUP mobile phone app [Wednesday]
- Rapid7 buys open-source platform Metasploit [Wednesday]
- Genzyme Q3 net income plummets amid plant shutdown woes [Wednesday]
- Lynn welcomes cleantech incubator [Wednesday]
- Genzyme moves oral Gaucher disease drug to Phase 3 trials [Wednesday]
- Sepracor buyout completed; CEO Adams to receive up to $11M [Wednesday]
- Cambridge Consultants touts innovation, launches e-health device [Wednesday]
- Avior pulls in $1.3M, plans new hires [Wednesday]
- Air Force awards SBIR grant to Scientific Systems [Wednesday]
- REvolution Computing lands $9M, new CEO Nie [Wednesday]
- Seventh Sense Biosystems' malaria monitoring project wins Gates Foundation grant [Wednesday]
- Mintera nabs $4M in new funding [Wednesday]
- Biogen Q3 net income, revenue increase [Tuesday]
- UMass Medical School taps Ware for better patient data tools [Tuesday]
- Boston Scientific stock falls after lower guidance [Tuesday]
- Aileron Therapeutics appoints Kafka as CFO [Tuesday]
- Tax prep software startup Copanion nets $10.2M, replaces CEO, CTO [Tuesday]
- Startup Watch: Five you should follow [Tuesday]
- Synageva closes newly increased $45M investment [Tuesday]
- AMSC expands to Australia with wind turbine parts [Tuesday]
- New Q3 VC investment report: Deals, dollars down over 2008 [Tuesday]
- Currensee lands $6M round for online foreign exchange trading [Tuesday]
- Bunker Hill Capital, partner Borden target water/wastewater investments [Tuesday]
- Mass. trade groups team up on STEM program; DIGITS targets 6th graders [Tuesday]
- Immerz puts game vibration on chest device [Monday]
- Cubist pumps $15M into Hydra for pain drug development [Monday]
- Texcel merges with Calif. firm to make CIRTEC [Monday]
- Millipore powers up with $2M solar site [Monday]
- Charles River lays off 115 in Canada [Monday]
- DRC dealt a $20M Air Force parts tracking contract [Monday]
- Report: Beir leaving North Bridge [Monday]
- Athenahealth closes $30M buy of Anodyne [Monday]
- HubSpot hauls in $16M in Series C [Monday]
- Ascension leads $6.1M VC round in Augmenix [Monday]
- Flexion nets $33M in first VC, backed by Versant, 5AM [Monday]
- Alnara touts good safety results on Phase 3 CF target [Monday]
- VC study: Recovery still not here [Monday]






