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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

MHT's top 10 online stories of 2009

By Mass High Tech staff

In 2009, visitors to our website were drawn most to stories about "flying" cars, the federal stimulus bill, a no-longer-stealthy biofuels firm, the IPO market and a funding model for social networks. Among the stories, the death of Eeva-Liisa Aulikki Olsen, the wife of Digital Equipment Corp. co-founder and long-time president Kenneth Olsen, received plenty of attention, noting the huge impact DEC has had throughout the New England tech community.

And now, our top 10 online stories of 2009, as determined by the most webpage views:

1   Flying car takes its first flight

2   Social network site Gather.com grabs funds and new money model

3   Massachusetts backs seed-stage business plan competition

4   Wife of DEC founder Olsen dies at 84

5   State-by-state jobs impact detailed for stimulus bill

6   Mass High Tech names 2009 All-Stars of New England Innovation Economy

7   A123 Systems poised to jumpstart IPO market

8   VCs nixing social networking startup investments

9   Joule Biotechnologies comes out of stealth with solar-powered biofuel tech

10  Oscient failure in reg filing prompts Nasdaq notice

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