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Google buys Angstro and hires founder to help build social networking service

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:00:00 PDT

Highly respected entrepreneur and Internet researcher Rohit Khare has sold his company Angstro to Google and taken a job at the Internet giant to help build its social networking product Google Me.

Angstro was a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum Awarded AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:18:00 PDT

Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum has been selected as the eighth recipient of the AAAI�Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, sponsored by IAAI and AI Magazine. This award was established in 2003 to honor Bob's extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Magazine, and the AI applications community, as well as his contributions to applied AI. The award is given to people who have shown extraordinary service to AAAI and the AI community. The award will be presented at IAAI-10 in Atlanta.

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PatientsLikeMe Collaborates With Novartis To Create An Open Online Community For Organ Transplant Recipients. Two New Programs Unveiled to Help Patients "Give Back"

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:54:00 PDT

PatientsLikeMe announces the launch of a free online community for people who have received organ transplants, including heart, lung, liver and kidney. Global healthcare leader Novartis is supporting the development of this community.

Patients Like Me is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Recognized in Fast Company's 2010 Ranking of World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:27:00 PDT

CAMBRIDGE, MA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - February 18, 2010) - �PatientsLikeMe, the leading online community for people with life-changing conditions, is ranked #23 in�Fast Company's annual issue of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world.�The magazine honors established brands including Facebook, Cisco, Novartis and Disney along with such rising newcomers as PatientsLikeMe, Spotify, and the Indian Premier League.

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Acquires ReliefInsite.com

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:47:00 PDT

PatientsLikeMe Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that runs an line community�for people with various life-changing diseases,�has acquired pain management Web site operator ReliefInsite.com LLC.

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Teams Up With 23andMe to Help Parkinson's Patients

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:02:00 PDT

PatientsLikeMe, the first community-based personalized medicine platform for people with life-changing conditions, and 23andMe, the world's leading personal genomics company, announce a partnership today to help people with Parkinson's disease. PatientsLikeMe is teaming with 23andMe on its effort to recruit 10,000 people with Parkinson's for a massive study of the disease, and give patients a way to learn more about their personal genetics.�

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.�

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A World of Possibilities

Wed, 06 May 2009 10:24:00 PDT

Launched as a nationally and internationally syndicated program in 2003, "A World of Possibilities" is an award-winning, one-hour weekly radio program of public affairs. It seeks to build bridges across boundaries of background and belief and discover solutions to longstanding challenges through penetrating conversations with pragmatic social innovators, leading policy analysts and big-picture thinkers on key national and global issues.

To hear the recent interview with CollabRx Founder and Chairman, Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum

CollabRx, Alacris Partner on Cancer Sequencing Project

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:29:00 PDT

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News)--CollabRx, a San Francisco-based personalized cancer research services firm, today said that it has initiated a cancer sequencing project in collaboration with Alacris Pharmaceuticals.

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Jay Tenenbaum Urges Collaboration to Treat the Long Tail of Disease

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:23:00 PDT

February 26, 2009�| SAN FRANCISCO--In the powerful opening keynote at CHI's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference on Wednesday, Jay "Marty" Tenenbaum, founder and chairman of CollabRx, urged members of the life sciences community to share their resources to empower personalized research and help satisfy the unmet medical needs of the "long tail" of disease. "As a patient...I want to tap all of the world's knowledge and all of the world's resources into curing my disease," Tenenbaum said.

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CollabRx Launches New Service to Guide Personalized Cancer Treatment: CollabRx ONE

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:12:00 PDT

(BUSINESS WIRE) - CollabRx, Inc. announced today the launch of its new personalized cancer research service, CollabRx ONE, designed to provide physicians with new insights into specific treatment options for their cancer patients.

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PatientsLikeMe.com Aggregates Data Payer, Industry Applications

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PDT

AIS's Health Business Daily

By Michael E. Carbine, Editor

"PatientsLikeMe, a social networking Web site, provides an interactive online community for patients with what Ben Haywood, a co-founder, calls 'life changing illnesses:' Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), HIV and mood disorders.

"But what makes the Web site's business model particularly interesting is its focus on aggregating data that payers, providers and industry can use to create products and services that improve the lives of patients."

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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PatientsLikeMe Launches Community for People with Fibromyalgia

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PDT

Cambridge, Mass., December 08, 2008

"PatientsLikeMe, the leading online community for patients with life-changing conditions, announces the launch of its newest community for people with fibromyalgia. Patients can chart the course of their disease by answering simple questions about their experience and adding their treatments and symptoms to their profile. All profiles are shared within the community, so patients can find others like them and learn from each other.

"'There is no question fibromyalgia patients are experiencing significant debilitating symptoms,' says co-founder James Heywood. 'We have the potential to understand this disease in a way that helps advance its treatment.'

"As part of its launch this week, PatientsLikeMe has a blog series, 'Voices of Fibromyalgia,' devoted to the disease from the patient perspective. Tomorrow's blog features a Q&A with triathlete and fibromyalgia patient Minnie Lee. 'PatientsLikeMe has massive potential to be a crucial resource for fibromyalgia patients by having every possible symptom and treatment laid out in one central source,' says Lee.

"PatientsLikeMe, which launched its first community for patients with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) in 2006, is rapidly expanding. In 2008 alone, PatientsLikeMe has launched customized communities for people with HIV, depression and bipolar (and other mood-related conditions), a series of orphan diseases (PSP, MSA, and Devic's) and fibromyalgia. All communities are free to join.

"The company and its expansion is profiled in this week's BusinessWeek magazine and featured in a 12/5/08 segment on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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Networking for a Cure

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:00:00 PDT

CBS Evening News

"One woman has taken her crusade against ALS to the Web, creating a social networking site in the hopes of finding a cure. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more."

PatientsLikeMe is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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Usable Security Systems Wins Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Award

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:00:00 PDT

On Thursday evening, December 4, 2008, at the Computer History Museum, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal announced its 2008 Emerging Tech Award winners. The criterion for choosing winners was the ability to completely change a technology field, not just advance it a click.

Usable Security Systems, a CommerceNet portfolio company, won the security category.

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Usable Security Systems Strengthens Password Defenses

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PDT

By Mary Duan

Austin Business Journal, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

For years, Rachna Dhamija has been fascinated with authentication. She has researched why phishing attacks for passwords and information can be successful, and what causes a system's security to fail.

Now, she's taken the subject of her Ph.D. thesis at Berkeley and post-doctoral work at Harvard and turned it into a company that may solve the problem of how and why system security fails.

Here's a hint: It's generally not the system--it's the user.

"We design these systems and assume users will know how to configure things and have perfect memories, and of course nobody has a perfect memory" when it comes to remembering passwords, Dhamija said.

Her company, Usable Security Systems, targets the end user of a system, someone who wants to manage passwords with ease.

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Health 2.0: Patients as Partners

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PDT

BusinessWeek�

By Catherine Arnst

Social networks like PatientsLikeMe let people take charge of their own care--changing the nature of drug research and the practice of medicine

"...Medicine has always been a top-down affair. Doctors, drug companies, regulators, and researchers are the expert gate-keepers, telling patients what they need to know. Even their own medical records are locked away to protect their privacy. So what would happen if critically ill patients joined together, obtained their personal information, and made it public?

"Just such a real-world experiment is under way at a Web-based social network started by the company PatientsLikeMe," a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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Demo.com Says UsableLogin Delivers Superior Security

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:09:00 PDT

In September 2008, Usable Security Systems, a CommerceNet portfolio company, demonstrated its new product--UsableLogin--at DEMOfall08.

DEMO has this to say about UsableLogin on Usable's almuni page:

"Admit it: you have a critical password scribbled on a Post-It note somewhere. We should know better, but the fact is passwords are�a pain and we want life to be easy. Usable Security Systems understands the issue and has created a secure password scheme that embraces our humanness yet makes us much more secure. UsableLogin delivers superior security for individuals and protected sites with virtually no barrier to adoption. Why wouldn't you use it, unless maybe you have a thing for Post-Its.

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Four of Molecular Medicine's Thought Leaders Will Keynote at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PDT

"November 21, 2008--Cambridge Healthtech Institute's (CHI) flagship event, the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (February 24 - 27, 2009) will feature four of molecular medicine's thought leaders as Plenary Keynotes.

"Jay M. Tenenbaum, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Scientist of CollabRx, Inc., will deliver a keynote presentation to discuss "Using Molecular Medicine to Do Therapeutic Development in the Network Age," on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, at 8:55am. Dr. Tenenbaum is a leader in Internet commerce and tells the personal and timely story of transforming healthcare and accelerating therapy development through virtual biotechs."

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CollabRx Facilitates Collaboration Between Researchers of Niemann-Pick Type C

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:30:00 PDT

CollabRx, a CommerceNet portfolio company, was featured in "Twin Disorders," an article in the November 2008 issue of The Scientist.

"CollabRx facilitates collaboration between researchers of Niemann-Pick Type C.

"The purpose is to find therapies faster by getting scientists to develop a targeted strategy for doing so, share ideas and data, and making�sure no one doubles another's efforts.

"CollabRx's software platform lets them share data and ideas remotely."

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Jeff Shrager Interviewed for PharmaVOICE

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PDT

Jeff Shrager, CTO at CollabRx, a CommerceNet Portfolio company, was one of five thought leaders interviewed by PharmaVOICE for an article by Robin Robinson in the October 2008 issue.

Virtual Pharma: Cheaper and Faster, but Doable?

More and more science-based projects are being shared across silos, networks, and organizations. At the same time, biomedical knowledge is expanding rapidly, but the existing drug-discovery process is unable to keep pace. The industry needs to fix what is broken, and the solution, our experts say, is in the evolution of a virtual business model.

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SupplyFrame and Cadence Launch New Partnership that Gives PCB Design Teams Access to Extensive Component Information Database

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PDT

San Jose, California, November 12, 2008 - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., the leader in global electronic design innovation, is teaming with SupplyFrame, Inc., the industry's leading component search engine, for its new ActiveParts Portal that will provide engineers with new component choices and even greater access to the component information they need to create their designs.

SupplyFrame is a CommerceNet portfolio company.

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