Today's Pick: Listen To Your iPod… And Take Your iPill

Here’s the round-up of the week in the MaRS newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.

Today’s Top Pick – “Listen To Your iPod… And Take Your iPill”.  Find out more under Biotechnology.

• Biotechnology “Pfizer To Spend $100M To Research Stem Cells”
• Biopharmaceuticals “Pharma, Universities Have Closer Ties”
• Cleantech“Clean Tech Open 2008 Tees Up Six Winning Startups”
• Information Technology “New Software Turns Cell Phones into Traffic Trackers
• Venture Capital “HomeAway raises USD250m in private financing”
• Business and Entrepreneurship “Determining Where to Sell Online”
• Science and Innovation “When the world catches flu, Google sneeze”
• Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship “Innovation From Constraint”

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