Editor's Blog
The latest blog posts from our WRAL Tech Wire and WRAL editors.
Cancer products firm DARA BioSciences at risk of delisting
The Nasdaq has notified DARA BioSciences that the company's stock price is too low for listing requirements. Learn what DARA's options are.
Bloomberg news hires former IBM Palmisano as advisor
The move comes a week after revelations that Bloomberg journalists had access to some information on customers' use of Bloomberg's data terminals, including when they last logged in.
Health care software firm Axial Exchange raising $2M
Axial has developed software that enables hospitals and other health care facilities communicate in real time. Learn how the company aims to use it to improve health care.
Triangulate, the 'digital doorway' for Triangle, goes live
"Triangulate will help us better organize the entrepreneurial network," says Joan Siefert Rose, president of the CED. "It helps us find each other, and it also helps people outside of the region look at the Triangle."
A sample from Triangulate
Syngenta unveils $72M Advanced Crop Lab in RTP
Built around 30 climate-controlled "environments" contained in all-glass greenhouses, the new 136,000 square foot facility had been under construction for nearly two years.
Growing better corn at Syngenta's new lab
Angels stress need for cooperation in reviewing Triangle deals
As angel investors become increasingly important to the Triangle startup community, more than 30 of them gather to discuss how they can work together more closely in performing due diligence on potential deals. We also have snapshots of four major regional groups.
Angel Investors
Hedge fund takes stake in NetApp, presses for boost in shareholder value
Elliott Management Corp, a hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Singer, has been in talks with NetApp for weeks over proposals that include returning cash to shareholders, according to Bloomberg News.
OxyBio gets more time to show it meets NASDAQ listing rules
The Nasdaq, which had sent Oxygen Biotherapeutics, a delisting notice in March, gives the company more time to show it meets listing requirements.
Photos come into focus as center of SnappforGood's new crowdsourcing model
Digital technology has made it easier than ever to take and share photographs. Now Raleigh venture SnappforGood aims to turn those pictures into fundraising opportunities for nonprofits and social causes.
SnappforGood
NetApp is preparing for layoffs, report says
A private note from Piper Jaffray to its clients says theNetApp layoffs will total about 1,300 people and will come from under-performing operations, IT-publication The Register reports
NeoNova expansion means move to Raleigh
Over the last two years, NeoNova has added more than 40 Internet service providers to its list of customers along with hundreds of value added resellers, who resell NeoNova's services.
Google's products dig deeper into people's lives
In the latest display of its technological prowess and sweeping ambition, Google is rolling out another wave of products and services that will test how much more people want computers to control their lives and enhance their perceptions of reality.
IBM to offer up 'Jeopardy!' winner Watson to software startups
International Business Machines Corp. will offer its Watson technology, which beat humans in "Jeopardy!," as a building block for startup companies making business software.
SAS pounces on 'big data' opportunities in health analytics
New SAS software cuts "big data" analysis from days, even hours, down to seconds. Learn why SAS sees big opportunity in the health care space.
SAS health analytics software
Cisco profit tops Wall Street expectations; shares jump on news
"They're focused on where they can really make a dent in their growth," analyst says. "Overall, they've gotten more aggressive and more engaged."
Google expands photo offerings in bid to rival Facebook plus music service
The search giant is rolling out a subscription music-streaming service and additional photo services in a bid to attract more users as well as advertisers.
Compuware, a subject of hostile takeover talk, spinning off cloud computing subsidiary
The Detroit-based technology firm, which was founded by Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos, is looking to spin off a company to give it "greater flexibility" through an IPO.
