Xconomy
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Type of site | Technology news & media company |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Xconomy, Inc. |
| Created by | Robert Buderi (founder) & Rebecca Zacks (co-founder) |
| Editor | Robert Buderi |
| Website | www.xconomy.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2007 (2007) |
Xconomy is a Boston, Massachusetts-based media company providing news on business, life sciences, and technology[1] focusing on the regions of Boston, Boulder/Denver, Detroit, Indiana, New York City, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Wisconsin, and beyond.[1][2] The website was launched in June 2007 by Founder Robert Buderi, former Editor-in-Chief of MIT's Technology Review, and Co-Founder Rebecca Zacks, the former managing editor of the New England Journal of Medicine's daily e-newsletter Physician’s First Watch.[3][4] Xconomy content covers "local personalities, companies, and technological trends to business and technology leaders" with a target audience of "entrepreneurs, business and technology executives and innovators, venture capitalists, angel investors, lawyers, and university researchers and officials."[1] It also features op-eds from the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors who are some of the country’s leading innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors.[5][6] Xconomy has been described as reflecting "the insiderish feel of, say, Politico, but with some of the familiarity that you might expect from a small town paper."[7]
Contents
1 History
2 Services
3 The Xconomists
4 References
History
Xconomy was founded in 2007 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[8] The original Xconomy site focused on the city of Boston, before opening another outlet in Seattle in 2008 and expanding to other key technology clusters afterward.[9][6] In 2016, Xconomy was acquired by Informa and moved its headquarters to Boston.[10]
Services
Since its founding, Xconomy has also entered the field of business-to-business event production, launched webinar and podcasting services (Xconomy Xpertise), and has formed a custom research and publishing arm (Xconomy Insight).[11][12] Xconomy also provides "underwriting programs, banner ads, display ads, and ad networks".[1]
The Xconomists
The Xconomists are a group of more than 400 leading technologists, scientists, and business innovators who share their views and insights on the Xconomy website.[4] They include:
David Baltimore – biologist & Nobel laureate
George Church – geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist & Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering founding member
Peter Diamandis – engineer, physician, entrepreneur (e.g., X Prize Foundation founder, Singularity University co-founder)
Esther Dyson – journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator & philanthropist
Brad Feld – entrepreneur, author, blogger, & venture capitalist
Mary Lou Jepsen – technical executive (e.g., Facebook, Google) & co-founder of One Laptop per Child
Dean Kamen – engineer, inventor (e.g., Segway) & businessman (e.g., FIRST co-founder)
Vinod Khosla – engineer and businessman (e.g., Sun Microsystems co-founder)
Robert Langer – chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur & inventor- Sue Siegel – executive (e.g., GE Ventures) & venture capitalist
Marc Tessier-Lavigne – neuroscientist, executive (e.g., Genentech) & Stanford University president
Anne Wojcicki – biologist & entrepreneur (e.g., 23andMe co-founder)
References
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^ Rafat Ali (February 11, 2009). "Business News Blog Network XConomy Gets Second Round Funding". CBS News via paidcontent.org. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
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^ "Xconomy - Boston Millennia Partners". www.bostonmillenniapartners.com. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
^ Scott Kirsner (June 3, 2010). "Xconomy planning to launch Silicon Valley site, ship Roush west". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
^ PLC, Informa. "Informa.com - 2014-2016 Acquisitions". informa.com. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
^ Bruce Bigelow and Wade Roush (December 22, 2010). "At a Private Xconomy Dinner, Luminaries Debate the Future of Innovation in San Diego". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
^ "Xpertise | Xconomy". Xconomy. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
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