This is the latest from Tech Crunch: Angel investors gorged on one of their twice-a-year feeding frenzies at Y Combinator’s demo day earlier this week. Among other things, SV Angel and Yuri Milner finally got to see what they invested in a couple of months ago when they made a blanket $150,000 convertible debt offer [...]
( Wiley-Blackwell ) A newly published report reveals that children with epilepsy are more likely to have psychiatric symptoms, with gender a determining factor in their development. Findings showed that girls had more emotional problems, while boys had more hyperactivity/inattention problems and issues regarding peer relationships. Details of this study in Norwegian children are now available online in Epilepsia, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International League Against Epilepsy.
Yuri Milner , founder of Moscow-based venture firm DST , has purchased quite a home in Silicon Valley, say multiple sources. The 25,000 square foot home, built just a few years ago sits on a tidy 11 acres. The price? $70 million. For personal reasons we aren’t going to print the address. But we’ve heard that Milner isn’t there much anyway and has no immediate plans to move to the U.S. Milner wouldn’t comment on the story, which isn’t surprising. He’s an intensely private person, as you can see from my interview with him earlier this year at the Crunchies, where he won Venture Capitalist of the Year. CrunchBase Information Yuri Milner Information provided by CrunchBase
( Oregon State University ) A prototype scanner aboard the international space station has been taking new images of Earth’s coastal regions during the 16 months since it was launched, providing scientists with a new set of imaging tools that will help them monitor events from oil spills to plankton blooms.
( Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ) A study of Yup’ik Eskimos in Alaska, who on average consume 20 times more omega-3 fats from fish than people in the lower 48 states, suggests that a high intake of these fats helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
This is the latest from Tech Crunch: Click for a larger version. The search wars have officially arrived! That’s right folks, Google’s ongoing quest to make its search results more impervious to spammers has become an infographic , which basically is a badge of honor for any tech bitchmeme. Closet and not so closet SEO [...]
This is the latest from Tech Crunch: App monetization and distribution platform Tapjoy is rolling out a publishing platform to support game developers, Tapjoy Publishing. Tapjoy, which used to be Offerpal , allows developers of mobile and social apps to turn on virtual currency, analytics and other monetization tools to their iPhone, Android and Facebook [...]
( The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ) Two Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine professors were named today as winners of the Canada Gairdner International Awards, which are presented annually to researchers from around the world for outstanding contributions to medical science. The awards are presented annually in October in Toronto.
( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) In the March 22 online edition of the journal Science Signaling, researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital report that they have created a new computational model that describes how intestinal cells in mice respond to a natural chemical called tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
Samsung just announced their two new Galaxy Tabs , the 8.9 and the 10.1. Both are just 8.6 millimeters thick and support 4G and WiFi. Click through to watch the live video launch of these two Honeycomb tablets (with TouchWiz on top).
