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Announcing Xconomy’s Agtech and Food Channel

Xconomy

And human food production is just one aspect of agricultural technology—a vast field that also includes animal food and more. This channel of our website, with its own home page, will feature all articles about these subjects and related topics from across our 11-market network. In short, the field is exploding.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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Pharma’s Productivity Problem: Finding More Blockbuster Drugs

Xconomy

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The increasing need for new drugs is intense.

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How a War on Climate Change Could Restore Economic Growth in America

Xconomy

If you haven’t read the Gordon book or the McKibben article, well, you’re in luck: I’m about to summarize them here. Secondarily, Gordon asks why the productivity gains that drove these advances tailed off after 1970. But Gordon shows … Next Page » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them. In a recently published paper, Horvitz and Stanford computer science PhD student Ethan Fast analyzed the last 30 years of articles about artificial intelligence in the New York Times.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.