NewsBlog: Cat cloning company lives final life Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 16th October 2006 04:22 PM GMT] A little under two years ago, Lou Hawthorne, CEO of Genetic Savings and Clone, told me that he hoped the pet cloning company would be profitable within two years, at which point it would consider an initial public offering. Apparently, they didn?t make it. News outlets reported last week that the company had sent letters to all of its clients announcing it would be closing by the end of the year. Clients could continue to bank their... Click to continue View comments (8) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Keystone shows Gates the money Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 13th October 2006 04:25 PM GMT] In our May issue, James Aiken, the CEO of the Keystone Symposia, wrote that ?the long reach of Bill Gates? had ?finally touched the Keystone Symposia, and all of conference planning, really.? Aiken was writing a grant proposal to the Foundation, and they required him to show measured value for the conferences. Aiken went on to describe a method for quantifying the conferences? impact. When he tallied the results of the instrument... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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