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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

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The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Guardant is funding a series of trials around the country in people whose genetic or lifestyle profiles put them at high risk of five types of cancer.

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Biotech Roundup: Scangos’s Exit, Zafgen’s Shakeup, Jounce, Relypsa & More

Xconomy

The top news in biotech this week centers around one big job opening: the head seat at Biogen, now that George Scangos has announced plans to leave the company. Who takes the gig, and the strategic direction he or she chooses for Biogen will have implications not just for the company and its employees, but the sector overall.

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