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Author: Kent Bernhard Jr.

Source: http://upstart.bizjournals.com

Interest: Google, already a force to be reckoned with in the world of venture capital, is upping its stakes. The company has quietly launched a second VC fund, Google Capital, to invest in later stage tech startups.

Link: http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/loot/2013/05/23/google-adds-to-venture-capital-arsenal.html

Author: PRNewswire

Source: Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH

Interest: AdhereTech receives $50,000 grand prize in global diabetes innovation challenge funded by Boehringer Ingelheim NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Developers of a pill bottle that wirelessly transmits data, measures medication and sends patient reminders have emerged as grand prize winners in the Healthcare Innovation World Cup, the international diabetes innovation challenge funded by Boehringer Ingelheim and organized by HITLAB.

Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wireless-pill-bottle-wins-healthcare-innovation-world-cup-207711501.html

Author: Christopher Mims

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Interest: Google's master plan for mobile is finally coming into focus. MORE FROM QUARTZ The Pope Francis I Rookie Card How Many Trees Must Die to Make 80 Billion Chopsticks? The latest development: Andy Rubin, who has run the Android mobile operating system since 2004, even before it was acquired by Google, is stepping down. Taking over Android will be Sundar Pichai, currently the head of Google's Chrome web browser and Chrome OS project.

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/the-future-of-google-and-tech-phones-and-computers-are-converging/274003/

Author: http://www.drdobbs.com

Source: http://www.drdobbs.com

Interest: Crowdfunding operation FundaGeek is trying hard to gain some share of voice in the rapidly crowding venture capital and start up investment space. Positioned as a software development development (double use intentional) zone, the portal (or website to be more accurate) says it suits all software project types from traditional "shrink-wrap" software, web-based applications, open source software, mobile apps, video games, and so on.

Link: http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/crowdfunding-software-development-develo/240146956

Author: Rebecca Harrington

Source: www.mndaily.com

Interest: University of Minnesota researchers have developed an iPad app that can animate surgical procedures in 3-D in the palm of a user’s hand. It’s just one of the technologies that will be showcased at an Office for Technology Commercialization event Thursday in McNamara Alumni Center.

Link: http://www.mndaily.com/2012/09/26/otc-showcase-university-inventions

Author: Amanda Lewan & Timothy Fisher

Source: www.deadlinedetroit.com

Interest: You may not hear it from the hum of computers, or the soft clicking of programmers. It won’t sound as loud as the roar of Ford’s first engine. But in the heart of downtown Detroit a new workforce is thriving. Ask anyone in the growing Detroit tech startup community why they are here and they’ll tell you this: they’ve found a problem and want to create the solution.

Link: http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/1711/an_inside_view_of_detroit_s_rising_tech_scene

Author: Carrie Ghose

Source: Business First

Interest: Ohio State University says fortunes are reversing on its woeful history of getting its research and inventions to the market. The university remains last in the Big Ten for licensing income from patents and inventions, according to a media preview of the annual survey released Monday by the Association of University Technology Managers.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/08/27/ohio-state-stops-3-year-slide-in-tech.html

Author: Gerry Smith

Source: Huffington Post

Interest: By appearances alone, this startup looks and feels like a movie set version of Silicon Valley. The co-founder is a 22-year-old college dropout who wears flip-flops, drinks Red Bull and gives exuberant high-fives to his staff. The office has a pool table, a foosball table and growlers of beer in the corner. Young engineers in t-shirts write thousands of lines of computer code, sometimes past midnight.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/new-york-startups_n_1671160.html

Author: Joshua Rubin

Source: CNN

Interest: AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- In downtown Austin, dozens of new technology companies are about to be born. More precisely, they'll be born at a new incubator and workspace called Capital Factory. It sits on the top floor of a glass-encased modern office building. With windows providing a 360-degree view of the city, everything that makes Austin one of the fastest growing cities in the country can be seen from its more than 200 desks.

Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/05/tech/innovation/austin-tech-incubator/

Author: Stephen Ceasar

Source: Los Angeles Times

Interest: "Technology is profoundly entangled with our everyday lives. As researchers, we can't get a handle on what's going on by looking at technical factors alone," said UC Irvine professor Paul Dourish, who will co-lead the center. "We have to study them in concert with human, social and cultural aspects."

Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-irvine-20120627,0,6026879.story

Author: Gerry Smith

Source: Huffington Post

Interest: At 21st Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan's Flatiron District, at least five tech startups have offices within a single block. But these companies at the heart of New York City's burgeoning tech corridor face a problem that is central to their very existence: Their Internet service is not reliable. One company on the block, Hunch, a technology recommendation company acquired by Ebay, has tried to find a dependable connection, but to no avail.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/bloomberg-tech-startups_n_1627882.html

Author: Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer

Source: DaytonDailyNews.com

Interest: DAYTON — The executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory has no doubt that Dayton will be the international center of sensor technology development. “In the next five to 10 years, this will become the next Silicon Valley for sensors and sensors development,” Joe Sciabica, AFRL chief, said Tuesday at the fourth annual Ohio Innovation Sensor Summit, held at the Tech Town business park.

Link: http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/wpafb-researcher-dayton-next-silicon-valley-1390187.html

Author: Dylan McGrath

Source: eetimes.com

Interest: Intel Corp. said Thursday (May 24) it plans to plough more than $40 million into a worldwide network of university research centers over the next five years in an international counterpart to the company's U.S.-based Intel Science and Technology Centers program (ISTCs).

Link: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4373828/Intel-to-spend--40-million-on-international-university-research

Author: Laura Zax

Source: The Atlantic

Interest: "Do you know what this is?" Arun Majumdar held up a piece of yellow cardboard at the beginning of his speech, the first of two keynote addresses that closed the Innovation Summit. It was a punch card, a truly vintage method of data entry from an earlier era. Majumdar raised his other hand to reveal a smart phone. "In the span of 35 years we've come from here to here," he said. It raises the inevitable question: Are we on track to make the same kind of progress in the next 35 years?

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/boeing-innovation/archive/2012/05/research-funding-and-the-future-of-scientific-invention/256910/

Author: Raechel Dawson

Source: BellevuePatch

Interest: Just off Bel-Red Road is a small space nestled among printing shops, auto-part dealers and a dance studio. If you look closely you’ll see a sign that says StudentRND. It is here that students create robotics, plasma speakers and iPhone applications. Student Research and Development, more commonly known as StudentRND, is a nonprofit that provides a space for college and high school students to learn, innovate and use normally inaccessible resources.

Link: http://bellevue.patch.com/articles/student-rnd-students-create-new-technology-at-bellevue-nonprofit-lab

Author: Mark Glover

Source: The Sacramento Bee

Interest: The University of California, Davis, College of Engineering's fledgling high-tech business incubator, the Engineering Translational Technology Center, has its first "graduate." Dysonics, a startup based on audio technology research conducted at UCD, has secured $750,000 in funding from investors, enabling the company to proceed on its own in San Francisco.

Link: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/09/4476345/startup-from-uc-davis-gains-private.html

Author: Dannika Lewis

Source: NBC29

Interest: Some business-minded folks in Charlottesville say there's a biotechnology boom happening in the city, one that could certainly bolster the bottom line for the economy in the area. Those familiar with the industry's growth say Charlottesville may not be in the ranks of California's Silicon Valley or North Carolina's Research Triangle quite yet, but 35 thriving biotech companies have started up in the city so far, and they only anticipate more to come.

Link: http://www.nbc29.com/story/18061574/biotechnology-booming-in-charlottesville

Author: Steve Chaplin, IU Communications

Source: Indiana University News Room/ newsinfo.iu.edu

Interest: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Four technology-based businesses led by Indiana University students will receive funding from the inaugural Building Entrepreneurs in Software and Technology, or BEST, competition.

Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/22211.html

Author: Irene Klotz

Source: Space News

Interest: The nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), selected last year to manage and commercialize non-NASA U.S. projects conducted aboard the international space station, plans to unveil the hub of a far-reaching initiative to match would-be researchers with funding sources and business support, managers of the Florida-based agency said. CASIS intends to build an online community seeded by ongoing, closed-door meetings with selected companies and organizations.

Link: http://www.spacenews.com/civil/120420-casis-plans-station-virtual-marketplace.html

Author: Glenn Chapman

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Interest: In sue and counter-sue games, the biggest loser is innovation, says entrepreneur. The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation, but some tech entrepreneurs believe patent spats are damaging the industry. From the makers of computer chips to creators of smartphones and designers of videogames, rivalries have spread from marketplaces to courtrooms with combatants warring over rights to use technology.

Link: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/patent-wars-plague-internet-age-add-innovation-tax-20120416-1x2ej.html#ixzz1sEffZso1