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Boston takes center stage this week in world of green technology
Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation. The clean tech hub. Copenhagen will be the place to be next month for the world’s policy makers, when the United Nations convenes its Climate Change Conference.
To build up real business selling virtual goods, 2 Mass. firms change tactics
Just after Labor Day last year, Pano Anthos flew out to San Francisco to unveil his new start-up, Hangout Industries Inc., at a major technology conclave, the TechCrunch50.
‘Shark Tank’ star led Learning Co. of Cambridge
Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation . A shark in the Back Bay. Did you recognize one of those skeptical, skin-flinty investors from ABC’s reality show “Shark Tank’’ as a denizen of the Back Bay?
Dreaming up a new way to build dream cars
On Tuesday, when the doors of the Las Vegas Convention Center open, the auto industry will get its first in-person look at a car designed by a college student in California, built in Massachusetts, and closely followed online by a cluster of car enthusiasts.
Talking with Digital co-founder Harlan Anderson
Harlan Anderson turned 80 this month. With Ken Olsen, he started Digital Equipment Corp., which was one of the pillars of the Route 128 era in Massachusetts and at one point was the second-biggest technology company in the world, after IBM. Next month, his memoir ("Learn, Earn & Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer") will be released.
Pros offer timely tips to empty that inbox
Rich Miner, an executive at Google Inc., was boarding a red-eye flight from San Francisco to Boston last Wednesday night, and he wasn’t expecting to sleep. The airline offered in-flight wireless Internet access, and Miner was planning to plow through about 2,500 unread e-mail messages on his laptop.
Symposium explores ways consumer devices can help us heal
Set aside for a moment the whole messy, Washington-centric debate about restructuring our health care system.
VisibleGains hopes third incarnation is the charm
Scott Kirsner is now writing a blog, also named Innovation Economy, that highlights what’s happening in technology, life sciences, start-ups, and venture capital in New England. This column features excerpts from the blog’s posts and comments, which can be found at www.boston.com/innovation.
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