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With Pellini on Board, Maris Sets Course at Section 32

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It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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With Pellini on Board, Maris Sets Course at Section 32

Xconomy

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

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Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. Nagraj Kashyap (photo courtesy of Qualcomm). Microsoft did not outline a specific pace of investments to be made from the fund, or its size.

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Bio Roundup: ASCO Opens, Merck Takes On COVID, Evofem?s Approval & More

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ASCO 2020 won’t be the Windy City gathering it usually is, but drug and diagnostics developers are still raring to share fresh data from their efforts in cancer immunotherapy, targeted treatments, and early-stage screening methods during the course of the three-day scientific program. While oncology.

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Living on the Edge: Amazon, AT&T, Packet Pursue “Cloudlet” Computing

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Instead, of course, they travel via the Internet to someone else’s data center—an unquestionably physical array of servers set on solid floors that can bear the weight. But cloud gets it right on one score—it suggests distance.