- Steven Overly
- Reporter
Steven Overly covers the Washington region’s technology, life sciences and venture capital communities for The Washington Post and its weekly Capital Business publication. Steven graduated from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, and has previously written for The Daily Record in Baltimore, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. He resides in the District.
- Human Genome Sciences shareholders file lawsuit against firm for poison pill
- Ventures face tough going while in middle stage
- The Download: Are these ideas worth the money? You decide.
- Rockville-based Edgar Online scooped up for $70.5M
- The Download: Local firm, developer pursue the business of mobile apps
- As regulators set rules for equity-based crowdfunding, investors prepare for its impact
- Q&A: Opower co-founder Alex Laskey on the company’s growth and future of the home energy industry
- HGS adopts ‘poison pill’ in response to Glaxo’s tender offer
- The Download: Herzog leaving Virginia Biotech Association
- With name change and new widgets, AddThis focuses on monetizing Big Data
- The company formerly known as Clearspring
- GlaxoSmithKline appeals directly to Human Genome Sciences shareholders in buyout dispute
- GlaxoSmithKline to take Human Genome Sciences buyout offer to shareholders
- DigitalGlobe rejects $792 million buyout offer from Herndon-based GeoEye
- From plush toys to T-shirts, I Heart Guts makes the body its business
- The Download: GeniusRocket adds Bob Garfield and PlaySay goes to Silicon Valley
- GeoEye offers to buy competitor DigitalGlobe for $792M
- Rockville-based Supernus Pharmaceuticals collects $50M in IPO
- Mobile health apps prompt questions about privacy
- The Download: GeekEasy closes incubator, strikes deal with MLK Jr. Library for space
- HGS posts increased Q1 revenue as lupus drug sales rise
- The Download: Microsoft’s focus is on mobile cloud, CEO says
- Venture capital report: Investment in local firms tops $200M in first quarter
- Parking company pairs with app
- Region bustles with M&A activity
- For house hunters, mobile apps put information at arm’s length
- Human Genome Sciences rejects $2.59B buyout offer from drugmaker Glaxo
- Rockville-based Catalyst Health Solutions bought by competitor for $4.4B
- The Download: Coalition aims to standardize ‘big data’
- Apps head to the office
- These apps can make life at work a little bit easier
- New jobs Web sites cater to niche applicant pools
- Vecna Technologies changes its robot focus
- Law firms lead list of region’s companies with ‘top of the line’ retirement plans
- Two seed-stage funds, two different approaches
- Enterprise tech accelerator to launch in District
- The Download: D.C. mayor wants to change way tech companies are taxed
- Satellite imagery companies brace for cut in federal funding for contracts
- Gray to propose tax changes for tech firms, investors
- Blackboard makes pair of acquisitions
- The Download: Hillcrest Labs navigates the smartphone market
- Banding together to get cheaper electricity
- Could D.C. area soon become a renter’s market? Yes and no.
- States ramping up investment in start-ups
- Meet the students pursuing executive MBAs
- The Download: At the SXSW festival, a large D.C. presence
- In Washington region, universities find market for executive MBA programs
- InvestMaryland auction fetches $84M for young companies
- The Download: More companies with smart grid in mind
- D.C. StartupBus: The final results
- Web start-up Ruck.us aims to engage the politically independent
- The Download: Dispatches from the road to Austin
- Around the Washington region, developers are looking up — and many don’t seem to mind
- Gaithersburg-based OpGen secures up to $17M from investors
- At the Startup Career Expo, young workers for young companies
- D.C. StartupBus: Let the journey begin
- At new daily deal purveyor, you find the deals and share in the profit
- LightSquared to replace CEO as broadband network prospects dim
- The Download: SoundExchange rises as music streaming increases
- The next technology frontier: Your home
- LightSquared CEO resigns, will remain chairman
- Start-ups struggle to find skilled workers
- Resonate Networks looking beyond politics for clients
- Rosetta Stone latest to get new CEO
- Young firms often need right executive talent
- Language software firm Rosetta Stone names new CEO
- Enrollment, earnings fall at Strayer, as for-profit degree purveyors struggle
- New crop of start-ups at Tech Cocktail
- With newest technology, OpGen puts DNA in its proper place
- M&A data offers clues for area entrepreneurs
- The Apartment Hunt: An ironic ending
- Clearspring data show which Super Bowl brands built social media buzz
- The Download: Could Facebook’s IPO lift other data firms?
- SnagFilms snags $7M investment to continue expansion
- For business schools, entrepreneurship is a bridge to other parts of campus
- The Apartment Hunt: The perpetual rat race
- Startup America Partnership outposts come to the District, Virginia and Maryland
- The Download: A cocktail reception where tech policy flows freely
- Earth Networks expands its global reach, product lines
- California company buys Rockville biopharmaceutical firm for $1.16 billion
- Rockville-based Micromet agrees to $1.16 billion buyout
- Microsoft, District alliance plans to bring more technology to residents, businesses
- The Apartment Hunt: Craigslist — the good, the bad, the ugly
- GWU president: region’s future is in science, tech industries
- Region finishes 2011 ahead of previous years in deals, dollars
- Maryland creates online database of business incentives
- The apartment hunt: Navigating the ‘open house’
- HGS sheds 150 jobs as sales of Benlysta build slowly
- Start-ups hope to see rewards in customer loyalty
- The Download: Fortify.vc chooses District for its business accelerator
- City grant lures accelerator for startups to the District
- Tech, biotech advocates push for funding
- The Download: How do you say ‘workout’ in Portuguese?
- Washington companies have spots in electronics show
- CES 2012: The perils of ubiquity
- At District-based Audax Health, a young CEO, a seasoned board and a tricky market
- D.C. real estate firm adapts to tech-savvy clients
- ComScore, Nielsen settle patent dispute
- Emergent CEO to step down in 2012
- When it comes to mobile devices, focus will be on location, location, location
- The Download: New firewall could limit how you use Facebook at work
- From Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley, a debate over highly skilled immigrants
- At MAVA panel, advice for those seeking an exit
- Web site providers look to small businesses for growth
- The Download: Racing the clock to build a startup
- Looking for a job? These startups want you camera-ready.
- Black Friday 2011: Holiday shoppers hit stores, with a Thanksgiving head start
- Instructor says gym fired him after tweet about co-worker eating fast food
- The Download: District-based upstart Veenome lands $500K seed investment
- Apps that ease motorists’ road trips also raise questions about safety
- Bluestone Capital Partners closes private equity fund, adds to M&A advisory business
- The Download: Startups show off at Tech Cocktail
- Taking in a full day’s events at D.C. week
- District-based newBrandAnalytics secures $26M with help from former D.C. mayor
- Looking to start a business? One attorney offers tips to dodge the pitfalls
- Robot helps employees talk to each other
- The Download: Groupon’s trading is good sign for others
- Local software upstarts use employers to find consumers
- Human Genome Sciences reveals slow-but steady-sales of lupus drug
- Crowdfunding draws interest from entrepreneurs
- The Download: Two moms, a persistent problem and a budding business
- Shaky stock market blamed for bad third-quarter figures
- Rosetta Stone’s CEO steps down amid a bumpy transition
- Q&A: Former AOL chief executive Steve Case discusses the recommendations from Obama’s jobs council
- From the campaign trail to the corporate office, NationalField looks to broaden its software business
- Neustar to acquire Vienna-based Targusinfo for $650 million in cash
- The Download: Can a billion-dollar tech company be built in D.C. alone?
- Florida Ave. incubator Geekeasy offers office space, camaraderie for startups
- Area Friendly’s not closing despite chain’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing
- Ex-Yahoo executive takes reins at Clearspring
- In some corporate office spaces, conventional gets a new look
- The Download: HelloWallet says weak economy has boosted business
- The Download: SnagFilms expands movie selection, distribution channels
- SBA program for low-income entrepreneurs could see budget cuts
- The Download: Smart grid firms ink deals as sector matures
- The Download: Fresh faces among D.C. region’s investment community
- Got a problem? Build a business.
- The corporate classroom
- Partnership with Under Armour gets attention for U-Md.’s football team
- StartRight business competition winners announced
- CEO of energy provider AES to step down at month’s end
- AES CEO leaving post
- Unsatisfactory study results spark slip in United Therapeutics’ stock
- The Download: How do you go mobile?
- The Download: Grotech announces $7M round in cloud computing firm
- Qiagen expands manufacturing
- The Download: Recent Georgetown graduate sells company for $100M
- IPOs could be a no-go for a while
- The Download: D.C. is a mecca for ed tech startups
- Business incubators or textbooks?
- On his menu: disrupting the supply chain
- At IPO-ready LivingSocial, you get the deals — and it gets the riches
- Web.com to pay $405 million for Herndon-based Network Solutions
- The Download: Investment deals could rank with those of tech peak
- Solar firms busier as demand increases
- The Download: Cvent takes on $136M investment after rocky dot-com beginnings
- Venture capital report: Region rings up a big quarter for investments
- Human Genome Sciences posts second-quarter earnings, discusses Benlysta sales
- FDA moves to regulate mobile health applications
- The Download: FCC opens ‘technology experience center’ for staff, industry to interact
- WeddingWire takes the next step in purchase of fellow wedding Web site
- Providence inks back-to-back local deals with Blackboard, SRA International
- Q&A: Bryan Sivak, Maryland’s first chief innovation officer
- For adult sports leagues, LeagueApps helps teams get off the bench
- The Download: Deal with U.K. utility provider forces Opower to adapt
- Maryland takes advantage of biotech convention’s proximity
- The Download: A roundup of the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention
- LivingSocial’s growth catches the eye of nearby counties
- Blackboard agrees to $1.64 billion buyout by Providence Equity investor group
- Md. Biotechnology Center grants $1.8M to nine life sciences firms
- In Maryland, biotech brings more jobs and higher salaries, report finds
- Annual biotech convention comes to an evolved Washington region
- LightSquared at odds with industry, government agencies over GPS interference
- The Download: EverFi turns to its next lesson: Preventing sexual assaults
- Virginia targets biotech sector in growth efforts
- For science and tech companies, immigration debate strikes a different tone
- The Download: At Tech Cocktail, the region’s latest crop of start-ups
- Installation begins on broadband network across central Md.
- For one newspaper reporter, a digital crash course in hospitality management
- To fill thousands of hotel jobs, Marriott turns to Facebook gaming
- As Foley & Lardner forms venture fund, its lawyers become investors
- The Download: Three start-up groups partner American Idol of start-ups
- Biotech consultants find fertile ground in the D.C. area
- SBA grant programs set to expire get 11th-hour reprieve
- Mobile phones, the next advertising frontier?
- Cash, credit or mobile? One local coffeehouse embraces mobile commerce
- The Download: Five companies make the case for cash
- Popvox connects advocacy groups, public to Congress
- The Download: Six serial entrepreneurs share lessons from the trenches
- The Download: Two Washington start-ups move west
- For health IT firms, regulatory questions abound
- D.C.-based online coupon dealer WTD acquired by national firm
- A list of daily dealmakers
- For start-ups in need of funds, conferences offer a tricky opportunity to navigate
- Twitter co-founder Biz Stone delivers keynote address at Capital Connection
- The Download: HelloWallet debuts its financial help software
- Panel focuses on education sector
- Angels flying high in venture capital market
- Start-ups get chance to pitch at Capital Connection
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