Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. Officials declined to say how many of the 18 were taking the drug and how many were on placebo. Shares immediately fell more than 40 percent.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

And over this time, we have cultivated a reputation for outstanding news coverage and events across high-tech business sectors—from information technology to life sciences and beyond. In the past year alone, we have launched new channels covering robotics and A.I.,

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion acquisition of San Diego’s Auspex Pharmaceuticals last year. —Edison, NJ-based Contravir Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CTVR ) acquired privately held Ciclofilin Pharmaceuticals of San Diego to add another experimental drug for hepatitis B to its portfolio. Teva nabbed deutetrabenazine in its $3.2

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

It was the 10 th consecutive quarter that venture firms put at least $10 billion into startups and other high-tech companies, including a $3.5 Over the last few quarters, we’ve definitely seen the funding levels come down” from 2015, said Tim Holl, an EY audit partner in San Diego who heads the firm’s technology practice.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

All this is to say that trends in education and edtech—and especially how education applies to the business of high tech—has long been something our editors have focused on. It asked leading Xconomists the question: What should students be studying now to prepare for 10 years from now?

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Our wide-ranging conversation covered the progression of MIT’s entrepreneurship curriculum and campus resources , the rise of the Boston-Cambridge area as a high-tech industry powerhouse, the prospects for an MIT venture fund , the challenges for university tech transfer offices, the roots of today’s startup culture, and more.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

Better edtech, perhaps in the form of next-generation MOOCs and other online training, might help people beset by the skills gap enter the high-tech workforce, which might help to slow rising inequality. But in the short term, videos and social media can also foment even more violence, as we saw in Dallas.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With the Republican National Convention behind us and the Democratic convention in full swing, it seems like a good moment to ask how a Donald Trump presidency or a Hillary Clinton presidency might affect the prospects for high-tech entrepreneurship and business growth in the United States.

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