Oregon’s Top Tech Stories

The Oregonian’s Mike Rogoway posted his list of the top tech stories of 2008 today. He highlights the emergence of Portland’s social-networking startups, as well as a few lowlights like Hewlett-Packard’s cutbacks in Vancouver, WA and Corvallis, OR, and the death of Portland’s municipal Wi-Fi network. Check out the full story here.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.