Kymeta: Is this Bill Gates’ next billion-dollar company?

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Wireless technology company Kymeta Corp. has been in business for a grand total of seven months, but already it has landed a $6.2 million engineering contract with the Inmarsat satellite company to accelerate its product development. Kymeta has grown to more than 40 employees and contractors, including some of the leading experts in the field, and its Redmond… Read More…

Intellectual Ventures: Why haven’t there been more spinoffs?

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Intellectual Ventures has been in business since 2000, led by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, with a bunch of different lab spaces filled with scientists working on all sorts of crazy high-tech projects — fueled in part by brainstorming sessions with the likes of Bill Gates. This morning, Intellectual Ventures announced the latest… Read More…