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Viking Liver Drug Shows Promise for NASH, Shares Soar on Study Data

Xconomy

[ Updated, 2:45 pm ET, see below ] There is another update today in the competitive race to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an increasingly common liver disease with no FDA-approved therapies.

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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

Xconomy

The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. The VA is running its own long-term study with nearly half a million participants so far.).

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How Groups are Closing the Security Skills Gap, Boosting Diversity

Xconomy

According to a 2015 study from Frost & Sullivan and the (ISC)² Foundation, there could be more than 1.5 Companies around the world are reevaluating their methods for recruiting and retaining top talent and, even in innovation hubs like Boston, there is serious competition for talent.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. That's where the original concept came from--so we wrote up the plan, and it won the competition.

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Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College?

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I recently spoke to an international group of entrepreneurship professors at San Diego State University’s Lavin Entrepreneurship Center. You will have ample time to make a huge impact on the world, after you graduate.”. Get More Than A Degree. I asked them to devise reasons an entrepreneur should remain in college.

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Is Your Organization Ready to Become an Ecosystem Driver?

Xconomy

However, there is still room for competition. In a study conducted at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), we found that only 12 percent of large companies (with revenues more than $1 billion) are ecosystem drivers. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales.

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Biotech Roundup: Gilead Slump, Celgene Goes Trump, Hemo Data & More

Xconomy

But the company said this week that sales of Sovaldi and Harvoni, which share a common ingredient, sofosbuvir, have slowed with fewer patients starting on the drugs and prices undercut by fierce competition from AbbVie and Merck. The study is one of several Celgene is running to try to expand the use of its blockbuster blood cancer drug.

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