Spin Transfer Tech Nabs Huge A Round

Boston-based Spin Transfer Technologies, the developer of computer memory technology, secured a $36 million Series A round. The investment was led by Spin Transfer Tech’s parent company, Allied Minds and Invesco Asset Management. Spin Transfer Tech was established by NYU and Allied Minds. PRESS RELEASE BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spin Transfer Technologies, Inc. a leading developer of a [...]

Hasbro Links with French Company Volumique to Create Highly Innovative New Experience

PAWTUCKET, RI & PARIS–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) and Volumique, a French-based innovator and provider of technologies that enable object-based play on Interactive Screens found in tablets, smart phones and computers, announced today a global intellectual property license agreement that will give Hasbro the rights to employ Volumique’s proprietary technology in its new line [...]

MassCEC, MTTC awards $120K for clean energy projects

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst Program has awarded $120,000 in clean energy research grants to three researchers from UMass Dartmouth, Tufts University and Northeastern University. The grants, $40,000 each, were funded by MassCEC and Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center and are meant to support early stage technology companies and research institutions intending to commercialize [...]

MMFX Inks Technology License and Supply Agreements with Cascade Steel

IRVINE, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–With demand growing for its patented corrosion-resistant, high-strength steel technology, Irvine, California-based MMFX Technologies Corporation has entered into two long-term strategic agreements with its manufacturing partner, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills of McMinnville, Oregon (a wholly owned subsidiary of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.; NASDAQ:SCHN). The combination of the Technology License Agreement and [...]

$3.5 million, UW-led consortium will address national freight issues

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $3.5 million grant to the National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE), a consortium led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The grant will fund research, outreach and education on multimodal freight systems and will allow CFIRE to continue its innovative freight research as a [...]

Mobile apps to top 2 million, 500 million sub-$100 smartphones

While technology enthusiasts look forward to a number of high-end smartphone announcements vendors are preparing for Mobile World Congress next month, 2012 will see entry-level smartphones become more popular than ever. Market research firm Deloitte estimates that the number of sub-$100 smartphones in use globally will surpass 500 million this year, and by the end [...]

Life Technologies Plant in Austin, Texas Named One of IndustryWeek’s Top Ten Best Plants for 2011

CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 11, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — IndustryWeek magazine today named the Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) plant in Austin, Texas, one of its Top Ten Plants in North America for 2011, making it the first biotechnology facility to win the prestigious award.  IndustryWeeknoted the plant’s 9% inventory reduction since 2007; 41% improvement in [...]

Online Technology Licensing Service Connects Industry With Innovation

LicensableTechnology.com is a searchable database of innovative technologies available for license from some of the world’s leading research led organizations, helping to bridge the gap between innovative research and industry EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, Jan. 16, 2012 — The process of commercializing technology from universities and other research institutions, generally referred to as “technology transfer,” is [...]

MHI to License Shipbuilding Technology to L&T Group

Tokyo, Dec 27, 2011 (JCN Newswire via COMTEX) — Wide-ranging Technology Support Agreed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has agreed with L&T Shipbuilding Ltd (LTSB), the shipbuilding arm of India’s Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T), under which MHI will provide a broad range of technological support to LTSB for construction of commercial vessels. The two [...]

Microsoft Milking The Patent Cow Up To $32 Stock Price

Microsoft has entered patent licensing deals with almost every major Android device manufacturer, including Samsung, Quanta, HTC and others. Motorola is one of the few Android manufacturers that has not yet licensed patents related to Android from Microsoft, which is likely due to the fact that Google recently acquired them. Motorola may be forced to [...]

Global TechnologyTransfer Group: Mobile Web Compression Patent

Portland, OR (PRWEB) December 20, 2011 Global Technology Transfer Group, Inc. (GTT Group) announces the availability of a patent portfolio related to mobile webpage compression and delivery technology. The patent portfolio relates to a method for mobile web content compression and delivery. The patent describes a method for dividing web pages into content and format [...]

Oregon Tech Appoints Promotes Provost/VP of Research

Oregon Institute of Technology has officially announced the appointment of Dr. Mateo Aboy to the position of Associate Provost and Vice President of Research. He will start in this position on Jan. 1, 2012. Dr. Aboy is currently the Department Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Engineering Department at Oregon Tech. In his [...]

Bayer CropScience and Performance Plants Sign License Agreement on Cotton Yield Improvement

MONHEIM, GERMANY, Dec 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Bayer CropScience AG and Performance Plants Inc. (PPI) (Kingston, Canada) have entered into a research and commercial license agreement, giving Bayer exclusive rights for PPI’s Heat & Drought Tolerance Technology (HDT(TM)) in cotton. Bayer will leverage this breakthrough technology, which preserves yield by enhancing plants’ tolerance [...]

Senate OKs SBIR funding, but passage remains uncertain

Concord — The U.S. Senate has passed an amendment that would reauthorize the popular Small Business Innovation Research program for eight years, but there are still two major hurdles to clear if a long-term reauthorization is to become a reality. For starters, there’s the problem of its packaging. The SBIR reauthorization amendment was tacked on [...]

MMRGlobal Receives $30 Million Offer for License of Company’s Health IT Patent Portfolio

 LOS ANGELES, CA, Dec 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — MMRGlobal, Inc. MMRF +38.46% (“MMR”), today announced it has received a proposed agreement from Surgery Center Management, LLC (“SCM”) ( www.surgerycentermgmt.com ) to license certain of the Company’s Health Information Technology and Personal Health Record patents for a minimum license fee of $30 million plus [...]

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