Andover, MA-based BlueShift Technologies, a maker of systems for semiconductor equipment manufacturing, has sold its intellectual property to Chelmsford, MA-headquartered Brooks Automation (NASDAQ: [[ticker:BRKS]]), Dow Jones VentureWire reported today. The move comes after BlueShift was unable to land another round of venture funding, VentureWire reported. BlueShift backers include Atlas Venture, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Intel Capital, according to the company’s website.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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