Don’t Fear, Doctor Twitter is Here: Sickcity.org, an open source project created as part of DIYcity.org – which pegs itself as “realtime disease detection for your city” – tracks the number of tweets containing specific sickness related words (e.g. flu, chicken pox) by location. A cool idea, but unfortunately in its first test, swine [...]
The prospect of algae production holds a great level excitement today in the biomass industry, where fuel is derived from recently living organisms. Algae – due to a highly accelerated growth rate – potentially yields fifty to several hundred times the oil per acre than soybean or corn based crops. The reason this biomass has [...]
In the hunt for startup capital, angel investors oftentimes get overlooked in the race to pitch to venture capitalists and corporate investment funds. Yet according to the University of New Hampshire Center for Venture Research, angels invested a similar amount of money to VCs in 2007 (~$30B), while spreading it over ten times as many [...]
Accelr8 Technology Corporation (NYSE Amex: AXK) revealed additional results for its rapid bacteria identification system. Specifically, the tests proved accurate in identifying organisms that produce the new “KPC” antibiotic-destroying enzyme. KPC is an especially problematic form of resistance because it renders a large family of powerful antibiotics, including carbapenems, ineffective – leaving a [...]
If software developers around the country are anything like the sample observed at a recent Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup, the iPhone is this year’s must have accessory among the IT crowd. Startup High Order Bit is trying to capitalize on this affinity through the sale of apps that bring popular software tracking tools to [...]
May’s Colorado CleanTech Initiative offered perspectives from Anita Burke on the future of the planet along with two company business cases from Corvid and SolSource. Burke, a former oil industry executive, began by reminding the audience that the earth is an island and as such has finite resources. Burke believes we are currently in a [...]
“We used to joke that we were Colorado’s best kept secret,” reports Baxa Corporation’s Vice President of Marketing Marian Robinson. This was before the company began garnering attention by winning awards and making headlines for acquiring ForHealth Technologies, a Florida based maker of healthcare software and robotics. For a firm that has been operating since [...]
Allos Therapuetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALTH) announced today that the FDA has accepted its New Drug Application (NDA) for pralatrexate for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) and granted the drug priority review. The priority review status sets a September 24, 2009 deadline for an FDA decision regarding the [...]
This week kicks off with a Colorado Cleantech Initiative as well as several meetups and user groups on Tuesday. Wednesday sees an afternoon event from TIE Rockies, while Thursday brings the first edition of Ignite in Fort Collins along with a morning BMS roundtable discussing the ideation process. Next Monday, the DaVinci Institute will host [...]
Twitter Quitters – Much has been made of the Nielsen report which pegged Twitter’s retention rate at only 40%. While even at this retention rate Twitter can still grow for a time, Nielsen pegs its maximum penetration at 10% of the population. Since its publication there has been a lot written questioning the [...]
