—Bruce analyzed the second part of a CB Insights demographic study of startup founders, which found, if you believe the numbers, that Massachusetts has a far higher proportion of women founders (27 percent) than California (6 percent) or New York (7 percent). Greg took a deeper look at that finding in a post for Boston.
—Bruce also had more details about the acquisition of Rohnert Park, CA-based e-mail spam filtering company Red Condor by San Diego’s St. Bernard Software.
—Skype, in which San Jose, CA-based eBay retains a 35 percent stake, filed registration papers to pursue a $100 million IPO on the NASDAQ exchange.
—The maker of the MongoDB open-source database, New York-based 10gen, opened a new Bay Area office to help deal with demand from enterprise customers.
—Fremont, CA-based GreenVolts, which is developing high-end photovoltaic systems for utilities, collected $7.5 million in a debt financing round.
—Plastic Logic in Mountain View, CA, said it was giving up on its long-delayed Que ProReader document reader, originally touted as a business-level alternative to Amazon’s Kindle. CEO Richard Archuleta said the company plans to “refocus, redesign and retool” for a next-generation product.
—And in a case that is sure to transfix Silicon Valley for months or even years to come, Redwood City, CA-based Oracle sued Google, saying the search giant’s Android mobile operating system infringes on Oracle-owned patents for the Java programming environment.
Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.)
I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
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