News tagged with company funding


News media often do not report potential sources of bias in medical research

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An analysis of news media coverage of medical studies indicates that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, ...





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Renewable energy

Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D

Technology / Energy

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...


Delegates at the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 22

Twitter to raise $100 mln in new funding: WSJ

Technology / Internet

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Twitter is close to raising up to 100 million dollars in new funding in a deal which values the hot micro-blogging service at one billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.


Private exchange to aid startups seeking more cash

Technology / Business

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Since June, a Web site called SharesPost has been helping a small pool of qualified buyers and sellers trade shares in fast-growing startups that have not yet gone public. Now, the private stock exchange is hoping ...


Improving AF situational awareness with smart satellite imagery

Improving AF situational awareness with smart satellite imagery

Technology / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) and small business Geosemble Technologies are improving Air Force situational awareness with software that presents vast amounts of map data in ...


DirecTV, Liberty Media detail spinoff plans

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- DirecTV Group Inc., the nation's largest satellite TV provider, said Monday it will be combined with the entertainment unit of Liberty Media Corp. and spun off into a separately traded company.


Miraveo: mobile networks as social networks

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

"There is no better way to find friends around you when you are out", said Joel, from the Californian city of Santa Barbara. Joel was speaking about Miraveo software.


It was unclear if Facebook had responded to or decided to accept the offer from Digital Sky Technologies

Russian firm offers to invest in Facebook: report

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Internet-investment group has offered to invest 200 million dollars in Facebook Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported.


Rare economic espionage case going to trial

Technology / Other

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage ...


Venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures Vinod Khosla

Khosla Ventures raises 1 bln dlrs for green tech

Technology / Business

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two new US venture capital funds have raised more that one billion dollars to help propel a green technology revolution, the company founded by influential investor Vinod Khosla said.


Light electric motor spins out

Light electric motor spins out

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Oxford University spin-out company, Oxford Yasa Motors, has been set up to commercialise lightweight electric motors developed at the Department of Engineering Science. The new technology ...



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