STEMCELL Technologies, Inc. and Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that Geron has granted a license to STEMCELL Technologies ("STEMCELL") under Geron intellectual property relating to primate pluripotent stem cells, including human embryonic stem cells. (PRWeb May 15, 2008) Read
Study finds conclusive signs of blocked file-sharing connections at three Internet service providers: Comcast and Cox in the United States and StarHub in Singapore
Lexico Publishing Group, a Long Beach-based firm that operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com web sites, has been acquired by search provider Ask.com, in an all-cash deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ask.com said that Lexico helps
Irvine-based semiconductor firm Broadcom Corporation said late Wednesday, that Dr. Henry Samueli, one of the firm's founders and current Chief Technology Officer and Chairman; and David A. Dull, the firm's Senior Vice President and General Counsel, have both taken a
Los Angeles-based Sometrics, a firm developing applications for gathering analytics about social networking applications, has raised a round of funding from The Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners. The firm's CEO, Ian Swanson, said the firm is looking to use
Visitors to Voyageurs National Park and other national parks would be allowed to carry concealed handguns, under a proposal from the U.S. Interior Department.
China and Myanmar are reeling from recent natural disasters. International relations professor Roy Grow of Carleton College joins Midday to discuss China's powerful 7.9 earthquake, the cyclone that wiped out Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta and how the devastated countries are working
The Interior Department has decided to protectthe polar bear as a threatened species because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming, officials said Wednesday.
Los Angeles-based j2 Global Communications, a provider of Internet fax, voice mail, and other services, said this morning that it has acquired Phone People Holdings Corporation, a San Diego-based provider of enhanced voice services. Financial terms of the deal were
Volkart May & Associates, Inc. (VMA), a Minneapolis-based B2B lead generation and direct marketing firm received a bronze award in the B2B Integrated/Multi-Media Campaign category from the Midwest Direct Marketing Association (MDMA) for excellence in their integrated direct marketing campaign
This may not come as much of a surprise to many folks who have been there and felt the pro-green vibe in the BayArea, but the electric-vehicle company Project Better Place is likely to launch its pay-by-the-jule service in San
Last Friday, a good odd 30 bicyclists (and a few rollerbladers) hit the freeways in Los Angeles, zipping past hundreds of gridlocked cars during rush-hour traffic. The first time Crimanimal Mass took to the freeways for the same pro-bike demonstration,
Likemind coffee morning takes place this Friday around the world. As a special treat for those of you in North America, Rob Walker (author of the NY Times Magazine "Consumed" column and blogger at http://murketing.com ) & Random House were
On the footsteps of Goodwill's boutique clothing line William Good, which announced its launch late last year, Oxfam has just opened up an upscale shop of its own in the Westbourne Grove area of London. Following a very similar model
