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Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

, Boulder/

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Detroit Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

, Raleigh-Durham,

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San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

and

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

. The website was launched in June 2007 by founders Robert Buderi and Rebecca Zacks.{{cite news , author=Rafat Ali , date=February 11, 2009 , title=Business News Blog Network XConomy Gets Second Round Funding , url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/business-news-blog-network-xconomy-gets-second-round-funding/ , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023073713/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/paidcontent/main4631868.shtml , archive-date=23 October 2009 , publisher=

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, agency=paidcontent.org , url-status=live , access-date=30 June 2021 Xconomy content covered "local personalities, companies, and technological trends to business and technology leaders" with a target audience of "entrepreneurs, business and technology executives and innovators, venture capitalists, angel investors, lawyers, and university researchers and officials." Bill Mitchell of the Poynter Institute described Xconomy in 2010 as reflecting "the insiderish feel of, say,

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, but with some of the familiarity that you might expect from a small town paper."

History

Xconomy was founded in 2007 in

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. The original Xconomy site focused on the city of Boston before opening another outlet in Seattle in 2008 and expanding to other key technology centers of activity afterward.{{Cite web, url=http://talkingbiznews.com/1/the-xconomy-com-coverage-and-expansion-strategy/, title=The Xconomy.com coverage and expansion strategy , website=talkingbiznews.com, language=en-US, access-date=2017-12-22 In 2016, Xconomy was acquired by Informa Connect and moved its headquarters to Boston. Xconomy had webinar and podcasting services (Xconomy Xpertise) and formed a custom research and publishing arm (Xconomy Insight). Xconomy also provided "underwriting programs, banner ads, display ads, and ad networks".

Contributors

{{Cleanup list, section , date = January 2022 Notable contributors{{what, date = January 2022 to Xconomy include:{{cn, date = January 2022 * David Baltimore – biologist and Nobel laureate * Esther Dyson – journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator, and philanthropist * Brad Feld – entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist * Dean Kamen – engineer, inventor (e.g., Segway) and businessman (e.g., FIRST co-founder) * Vinod Khosla – engineer and businessman (e.g.,

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed sig ...

co-founder) * Robert Langer – chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur and inventor{{Cite web, url=https://xconomy.com/boston/2012/01/18/the-convergence-of-biology-medicine-and-engineering/, title=Xconomy: The Convergence of Biology, Medicine, and Engineering, date=January 18, 2012, website=Xconomy * Marc Tessier-Lavigne – neuroscientist, executive (e.g.,

Genentech Genentech, Inc. is an American biotechnology corporation headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It operates as an independent subsidiary of holding company Roche. Genentech Research and Early Development operates as an independent cent ...

) and

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

president

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