Today's Pick: Investors bet on payments via cellphone

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

Today’s Top Pick – “Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone“. Find out more under Business and Entrepreneurship.

• Biotechnology “California Agency Offers Up To $210M In Stem-Cell Funding”
• Biopharmaceuticals “Merck Partners With Non-Profit For Neglected Diseases Initiative
• Cleantech “Obama Administration Announces $8 Billion in Loans for Ford, Nissan, and Tesla”
• Information and Communication Technology “Intel, Nokia team up for opportunities in PC-mobile convergence”
• Venture Capital “The 5 mHealth start-ups that received venture capital in 2009″
• Business and Entrepreneurship “Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone”
• Science and Innovation “Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel”
• Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship “The Top 100 Tweeps to Follow for Social Entrepreneurship”

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