Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 14, 2012

Motorola annual financial report is here. Google will however feel the layoffs. The firm will incur a severance-related charge of over $275 million, and restructuring charges due to the staff’s severance packages and job outplacement services for the 4000 employees its laying off at Motorola Mobility.

Layoffs 63

Layoffs Google Mobile Patents 63

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. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. —The U.S.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Study Layoffs San Diego 77

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. But as Xconomy reported, details about the reorganization were scant, leaving open questions whether drug regulation actually needs to move faster.

Buzzfeed 59

Buzzfeed News Pricing IBM 59