Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Like a human, AI’s learning is only as good as the data it is fed,” said Manoj Saxena, former head of IBM Watson in Austin, TX, and a prominent investor in AI startups. Take, for example, facial recognition technologies that work best on white people and make the most errors on black people.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made big headlines almost six years ago when he wrote a blog post called “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?”

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2017

competitors Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, and Google banded together to form the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society , an industry-led attempt to get ahead of the many social, ethical, and economic issues presented by the advent of technology with increasingly human-like capabilities. Last fall, A.I.

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JULY 13, 2013

It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It had a 10 meg hard drive.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2017

This story is part of an ongoing Xconomy series on A.I. in healthcare. These are heady times for using artificial intelligence to extract insights from healthcare data—in particular, from the tidal wave of information coming out of fields like genomics and medical imaging.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community. It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall.

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Xconomy

MARCH 6, 2019

Erasca, a biotech startup run by the former CEO of Ignyta, debuted in December with $42 million and an audacious plan to “erase cancer,” but provided little explanation as to how. Erasca is still keeping many of those details under wraps.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The food we buy in grocery stores and restaurants has a story to tell about where it came from and each step it took on its journey to your dinner table. Blockchain technology can help tell that tale. The story many food companies want to tell these days is about safety.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2018

Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts. Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2018

Xconomy will explore the confluence of “big biology” with “big data” at our half-day forum on April 26. Just as the computing industry opened the way to technologies that enabled people to manage and analyze information in unprecedented ways, a new era in biology is opening the way for new technologies for understanding and using the code of life.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

After Facebook posted a record profit of almost $7 billion in the fourth quarter on nearly $17 billion in revenue last week, an early investor, former advisor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and current shareholder said he’s making it a mission to “fix’’ the 15-year-old tech giant.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Take a look at this blurb for a session about data privacy at the upcoming RSA conference on cybersecurity. It sounds a polite warning: “The importance of privacy is often alluded to in generalized, value-laden terms that, while sincere, don’t necessarily help privacy be taken seriously in the enterprise risk management process.”

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

It seems like ancient history now, but “big data” was once a hot field with startups, investors, and big companies all buzzing with hype. Then the tech industry moved on, and marketers crowned data science and machine learning the Next Big Things (at least until blockchain takes over).

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Xconomy

APRIL 6, 2018

At Xconomy we know how hard it is to be a startup founder. We’re always meeting bootstrapping entrepreneurs who take that lean startup model a little too literally. So we have some exciting news for startup teams!

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Artificial intelligence is poised to infiltrate nearly all aspects of human life. Given this development, technologists are focusing on how to ensure the technology usage is governed by ethics. The general rule is that power begets responsibility,” says Michael Stewart, founder and CEO of Lucid AI , an AI startup in Austin. “If

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Xconomy

MARCH 15, 2018

Year after year, Xconomy has gathered exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists to our most prestigious event— The Napa Summit. This year is no different. Come join us in the heart of wine country on June 14 and 15 to listen to visionary speakers and connect with fellow innovators.

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2018

The countdown clock is running for Big Data Meets Big Biology , and time is almost up to grab a seat for Xconomy’s half-day forum that will convene technology and life science innovators and influencers. Register today and save with our Procrastinator’s Special while it lasts.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2017

Nobel Laureate David Baltimore. Microbiome AND supercomputer pioneer Larry Smarr. Intellectual Ventures’ Nathan Myhrvold. Nicole Glaros of Techstars. These are just a few of the visionary speakers who will be headlining Xconomy’s sixth annual Napa Summit.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The World Wide Web is at a crossroads.

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Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

This fall, we are convening exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists for an in-depth exploration of the innovation ecosystem and its impact on the future. Come join us at our newest interactive conference, XCON: The Xconomy Conference on Technology and Transformation.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2018

San Francisco-based Anaplan , one of five companies planning to close initial public offerings this week, raised the expected price range for its shares in an SEC filing Wednesday, signaling an IPO that could be richer than it had anticipated. Enterprise planning software company Anaplan, which is privately valued at more than $1.4

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Given the size and diversity of the life sciences community in the Boston area, we at Xconomy knew that many candidates would be so unique that they wouldn’t fit neatly into a category. So we gave them a category of their own.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2018

In two and a half weeks, Xconomy will host our seventh annual Napa Summit: The Xconomy Retreat on Technology, Jobs, and Growth. In the heart of California’s wine country, it is our most exclusive, intimate, and unique conference.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of stories examining entrepreneurship on MIT’s campus and beyond. ]. MIT’s approach to nurturing entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years.

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Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2017

Year after year, Xconomy has gathered exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists to our most prestigious event— The Napa Summit. This year is no different. Come join us in the heart of wine country on June 8 and 9 to listen to visionary speakers and connect with fellow innovators.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2019

CyberX, an industrial “Internet-of-things” security startup, has raised $18 million in a funding round led by the venture arm of chip-maker Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) and Inven Capital, a cleantech and new energy fund based in Prague, the Czech Republic.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few. For the cybersecurity industry, 2016 is shaping up to be the year of alliances.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

. —In other news from the moonshot day, Biden warned researchers in academia and industry that they would risk losing federal funding if they didn’t follow the law and report their clinical trial results to the public ClinicalTrials.gov database… IBM said it would deploy its Watson systems to help the U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

As federal agency employees miss their first paychecks today due to the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22, federal contractors and their workers—including technology professionals—face a loss of income that they may never recover.

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