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July 24, 2008- Gambling on Facebook Games, Zynga Cashes In By Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal- - read more

July 7, 2008-MDB Capital Group LLC- Akesis Initiation Report- read more

June 30, 2008 Akesis Pharmaceuticals Names Carl LeBel as President and Chief Operating Officer- read more

June 17, 2008- Akesis Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Results from its Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes
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June 9, 2008- Amira Pharmaceuticals Hires Industry Veteran for CFO Position
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June 4, 2008- Akesis Pharmaceuticals Completes Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes
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June 2, 2008- Amira Pharmaceuticals achieves milestones in FLAP inhibitor program with GlaxoSmithKline
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May 19, 2008- Connecting Game Players to Build a Sense of Loyalty
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April 15, 2008- Music without labels
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April 2, 2008- VCs Warming Up to Area Biotechs
San Diego Competitive With New England and Silicon Valley in National Ranking
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March 31, 2008- Dr. Dennis Fenton and Dr. Steve Kaldor Join Amira Board of Director
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March 26, 2008- Akesis Pharmaceuticals Raises $2 Million In Private Placement
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March 17, 2008- Akesis Pharmaceuticals Provides Preliminary Data from Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes
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February 28, 2008- Acceleron Pharma Announces Global Collaboration with Celgene Corporation on ACE-011 Program for Cancer-Related Bone Loss
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February 25, 2008- Akesis Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient in Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 for Type 2 Diabetes
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February 25, 2008- Chumby Industries Debuts Its Innovative chumby™ Internet Device and Chumby™ Network
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February 20, 2008- Avalon Ventures Closes $150 M Eighth Fund
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February 20, 2008- Avalon Ventures Closes on $150 Million Avalon VIII Fund
Firm Adds Two Managing Directors to New Fund
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February 20, 2008- Avalon secures over $150 million for investment fund
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February 4, 2008- Amira Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline enter global agreement for FLAP inhibitor program
Deal follows positive phase I data from novel product candidate AM103 for the oral treatment of respiratory disease
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January 16, 2008- More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers
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November 14, 2007- Ambit Biosciences Raises Over $49 Million In Series D Financing
New Capital to Support Continued Advancement of Clinical Pipeline and KinomeScan(tm) Technology
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November 12, 2007-FDA Accepts Akesis Pharmaceuticals’ AKP-020 IND Application For a Phase IIa study in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
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November 6, 2007-Akesis Pharmaceuticals Files IND for Phase IIa Trial of AKP-020 to Treat Type 2 Diabetes
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July 16, 2007- Super-buff cattle may hold key to treating muscular diseases
Cambridge biotech trying to mimic breed’s genetics
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November 1, 2007- Amira Pharmaceuticals Announces Favorable Phase 1 Clinical Trial Results for Lead Product Candidate AM103 and Initiates Clinical Studies for the 2nd Entry Molecule for the Treatment of Respiratory and Cardiovascular Disease
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November 1, 2007- Amira Pharmaceuticals Appoints First Vice President of Development
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September 21, 2007- Chasing Memory - Part 1 of 4
One man's epic quest for understanding
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September 21, 2007- Chasing Memory - Part 2 of 4
Trials, and a series of errors, in the brain lab
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September 21, 2007- Chasing Memory - Part 3 of 4
Breakthroughs, and new crises, in the lab
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September 21, 2007- Chasing Memory - Part 4 of 4
Success and rejection
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September 20, 2007- Hardware Can Be Open, Too
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September 18, 2007- Kaltura Wins Spot as 40th Company at TechCrunch40
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September 14, 2007- New Heights: Take your business higher with funding from one of these top VCs
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August 6, 2007 - AnaptysBio, Inc.: Naturalizing antibodies
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August 16, 2007 - Lahaina biotech company gets $3M in venture capital
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August 15, 2007 - AKESIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
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Technical & Fundamental Analysis
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August 13, 2007 - Ambit Biosciences Announces Significant Enhancements to KinomeScanTM Profiling Technology
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July 30, 2007 - Amira Pharmaceuticals Announces Appointment of First Chief Executive Officer
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July 16, 2007 - Amira Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Initial Data from a Phase 1 Study of AM103, A Novel Product Candidate for the Treatment of Respiratory and Cardiovascular Disease
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July 10, 2007 - Akesis Pharmaceuticals Files Pre-IND for AKP-020
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July 9, 2007 - Biovex Raises $22 Million In First Close Of Series E Financing
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July 6, 2007 - Kinomics: The New Star
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June 28, 2007 - Akesis Pharmaceuticals Selects Charles River Laboratories to Perform Key Safety and Toxicology Studies for AKP-020
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June 12, 2007 - Robert J. Zollars Named Chairman And Ceo Of Vocera Communications
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May 8, 2007 - Intercasting Corp. Secures $12 Million in Series B Venture Funding
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March 23, 2007 - Amira Pharmaceuticals Raises $25 Million
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November 7, 2006 - Licensing fee gives Ambit Biosciences big cash infusion
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September 19, 2006 - Sirion Therapeutics, In Reverse Merger, Raises $25M
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January 9, 2006 - Roche and Amira Pharmaceuticals announce innovative alliance model
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January 9, 2006 - If BlackBerry Gets Smushed...
There are some good alternatives to the beloved e-mail service
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October 18, 2005 - A passion for big ideas
La Jolla venture capitalist is voracious in his pursuit of early-stage science.
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October 31, 2005 - The 200 Best Small Companies
Touchy, touchy
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June 1, 2005 - Blackberry's Jam
Research in Motion is paying $450 million to settle a patent dispute over its popular e-mail device.
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March 04, 2005 - AVALON VENTURES Closes $75 Million Seventh Fund
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January 13, 2005 - Chipcon Acquires Figure 8 Wireless To Broaden ZigBee-Compliant Wireless Offerings
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December 05, 2004 - Land Grant for Salk and Stem Cell Research
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December 01, 2004 - Vocera in WiFi Planet
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November 02, 2004 - Nokia, Good Technology Ink Smartphone Deal
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September 8, 2004 - Figure 8 Wireless presents at DemoMobile 2004
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May 12, 2004 - Vocera Communications Wins Two Technology Industry Awards
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March 23, 2004 - Motorola To Deploy GoodLink Wireless Messaging System On New Motorola MPx
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March 16, 2004 - Your Trekkie Communicator Is Ready
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March 01, 2004 - Hold The Phone
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