GigaomVenture capital investments rose 12% in Q2, to $6.7 billion (report)
Where are venture capital dollars going these days? A new report suggests that they’re heading disproportionately to software and biotechnology companies. Read more »
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Where are venture capital dollars going these days? A new report suggests that they’re heading disproportionately to software and biotechnology companies. Read more »
Raymie Stata spent seven years working on the guts of Hadoop as a VP, chief architect and CTO at Yahoo. His new Hadoop startup, called Altiscale, has raised a $12 million… Read more »
As genome sequencing drops to a price that’s palatable for more consumers, two doctors debate whether those without medical conditions should do it. Read more »
A startup called Syapse is trying to bring the world of “omics” — the study of all our genomes, biomes, proteomes and other “omes” — under control with a new data… Read more »
How did venture capital stack up in 2012 compared to 2011? A new report taking a look at all VC investments for the past year breaks down some of the trends,… Read more »
There’s no shortage of great minds using big data techniques to improve the quality of our medical treatments, but sometimes they can’t get access to the data they need most. Improving… Read more »
More work on data policies and ownership may be important in the coming years as the movement takes off. As insights from these communities get translated into monetized products there will… Read more »
Cloud-based DNA-sequencing specialist DNAnexus has closed a $15 million second round led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech. Elsewhere, we learned Wednesday that agribusiness giant Monsanto has deployed Cloudant’s NoSQL database… Read more »