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Friday, September 4, 2009

23andMe Co-Founder Linda Avey Leaves Personal Genetics Start-Up to Focus on Alzheimer’s Research

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Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, will be leaving to start a foundation related to Alzheimer’s disease.

With Anne Wojcicki, she founded the high-profile company–whose Series A investors include Genentech, Google, and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki’s husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin–in 2006.

Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: “I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.”

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Friday, July 11, 2008

The Entire D6 Interview With Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer (5 of 6)

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 5 of 6 of our discussion with Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, who were interviewed together by Walt Mossberg and me on the conference’s opening night.

In this video, Gates and Ballmer talk about Apple and the mobile market and also answers questions from AllThingsD readers sent via the Internet about health care and whether Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo has tarnished its reputation.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

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