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Carlsmed, a San Diego-based medical technology company that’s developing personalized spinal implants, has merged with Precisive Surgical, a spine imaging system startup in Seattle. The combined company, which will operate in San Diego under the Carlsmed name, aims to create a platform that will use imaging recognition technology, 3D printing, and other tools to allow […]

The week in Boston tech news hit on all the highlights: health technology, 3D printing, crypto, blockchain, CEO moves, fintech, and plenty of venture cash. Read on for the details: —Healthcare technology startup Medumo has been acquired by Netherlands-based Philips (NYSE: PHG). The company’s patient navigation technology provides instructions and patient resources through text message […]

Austin—VMWare announced Thursday it intends to acquire Bitfusion, a startup with offices in Austin, TX and Silicon Valley that makes software aimed at optimizing the way hardware such as graphic processing units are used by applications. Terms were not disclosed. Bitfusion’s software is particularly useful for companies using artificial intelligence and machine learning technology in […]

Initial public offerings took a brief summer break the week of Independence Day, but healthcare IPO activity resumed this week as three more companies joined the US public markets. Here’s a recap of the biotech companies that priced IPOs Wednesday evening. —Genmab is different from the other life science companies that joined the public markets […]

Skyhawk Therapeutics has added Genentech to the growing list of companies it’s working with to find new drugs. The deal with Genentech, a Roche subsidiary, calls for Cambridge, MA-based Skyhawk to use its technology to discover and develop RNA-targeting drugs for cancer and neurological diseases. Under the deal announced Tuesday, Genentech receives an exclusive license […]

Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas. —Mark Cuban and Serena Williams are among investors to fund maternal health startup Mahmee. The Los Angeles-based startup announced Monday it has raised $3 million from the Dallas Mavericks owner and the tennis star (through her firm Serena Ventures) in a round led by ArlanWasHere […]

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poured more than $8 billion into New York–based startups in the first six months of the year, and the signs of the expansion of here are everywhere, as .   But I didn’t get one key piece of...

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Consolidated Edison Inc. has been warning for days that New Yorkers may be on the verge of some isolated power failures. An upcoming heat wave, the utility says, could bake the pavement and overheat...

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is reporting a profit hike of more than 8% from the second-quarter.The company on Friday posted net income of $1.76 billion, or $2.07. That's a 2-cent beat on Wall Street projections, according to...

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With the formal June debut of a multispecialty outpatient facility in Sunset Park, NYU Langone Health became the latest hospital to make a sizable investment in cancer treatment facilities in...

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When the impresario Harvey Lichtenstein transformed the forlorn Brooklyn Academy of Music into the popular and influential BAM in the 1980s, it was—and long remained—an outlier in a cultural desert...

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Crain’s New York Business won three awards, including recognition for best body of work by a single writer, at the Alliance of Area Business Publishers' annual Editorial Excellence Awards.Announced...

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The move could hamstring the Chinese tech giant if it prevents the firm’s customers from getting the latest versions of services such as Maps and Gmail.

Shareholders are voting on whether to push the tech giant to examine the human rights and financial risks of the surveillance technology.

Artificial intelligence may help doctors make more accurate readings of CT scans used to screen for lung cancer.

The great hope for people without a bachelor’s degree hasn’t yet spread beyond small-scale success stories.

When it comes to disinformation, all signs suggest the 2020 presidential campaign will make 2016 look like a mere test run, our columnist writes.

The price was relatively small, but the deal may have a big impact on the race between the United States and China to build more powerful computers.