Happy Holidays everyone—time for a well-deserved break! Your friends at Xconomy were going all out Friday evening, bringing you the breaking news about iRobot’s big victory in its legal battles with Robotic FX live from our watering hole at Bambara: we posted the final story from our barstools, sipping Xconomy green apple martinis and celebrating our holiday party.
Now we’re officially slowing the pace. Our roundup this morning was (big breaking news aside) our last news post of the year. After Christmas, we’ll be rounding out the week (and, by the way, our six-month anniversary) with a look back at the big stories of our first half-year in business. We’re preparing stories of the year in a bunch of categories for your holiday entertainment and (hopefully) enlightenment. In the meantime, with some off us off to visit relatives, others out for last-minute shopping, and others just kicking back, we are slipping into our new Xconomy t-shirts (thank you, Rebecca!) and Xconomy fleeces (thank you, Steve!) and wishing you a great holiday season!
Author: Robert Buderi
Bob is Xconomy's founder and chairman. He is one of the country's foremost journalists covering business and technology. As a noted author and magazine editor, he is a sought-after commentator on innovation and global competitiveness. Before taking his most recent position as a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies, Bob served as Editor in Chief of MIT's Technology Review, then a 10-times-a-year publication with a circulation of 315,000. Bob led the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and oversaw its expansion into three foreign editions, electronic newsletters, and highly successful conferences. As BusinessWeek's technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for The Quality Imperative.
Bob is the author of four books about technology and innovation. Naval Innovation for the 21st Century (2013) is a post-Cold War account of the Office of Naval Research. Guanxi (2006) focuses on Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) covered a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and is an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC's Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation at many venues, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.
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