Xconomy Boston’s Top Stories of Q3 2014: Editor’s Picks

It’s the start of a new quarter: time to look back on some of our top stories from July to September. A lot has happened in the Boston-area innovation scene, and this fall is shaping up to be a doozy.

This installment of editor’s picks spans tech, life sciences, and energy. The stories concern some of the world’s biggest companies as well as small, budding startups. They include a deep profile of a scientist-turned-CEO; a post-mortem on a failed MIT startup; and trend pieces about big data, edtech, and wearables. As usual, these are stories you couldn’t read anywhere else.

So let’s look back at 10 Xconomy Boston stories that stood the test of time, in reverse chronological order:

1. Blessed By Angels, GliaCure Tests New Alzheimer’s Approach In Humans

2. Olin College President Rick Miller on Reengineering Engineering

3. RunKeeper Sees Apple Health Moves as “Both Scary and Exciting”

4. John Maraganore: From “Prototypical Geek” To Canny Alnylam Chief

5. What’s After Big Data? Niche Analytics, Data Wrangling, Smart Storage

6. Boston Considering New Regulations for Airbnb, Similar Sites

7. After $150M Raised, What Went Wrong at Fuel Cell Startup Lilliputian

8. Startups Take a Shine to Urban Agriculture; Can They Reward Investors?

9. How Google, Microsoft, and Amazon’s Boston-Area Offices Stack Up

10. As Book Prices Drop, Big Publishers Push Into Software and Edtech

Author: Gregory T. Huang

Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003. Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.