Armed with a $10,000 grant from a private family foundation, the group PDX Women in Tech is launching a scholarship fund to send members to technology conferences or workshops. Applications for scholarships opened Sept. 10 and will close Oct. 31. Up to $2,500 is available to pay for travel, registration or per diem at tech and women-in-business events within the contiguous 48 states. Award winners will be announced in early December. “This program is important because one’s ability to grow in…

OncoResponse’s discovery platform mines the immune systems of patients who have responded particularly well to cancer immunotherapies.

San Jose might have the highest, fastest-rising housing prices in the country, but millennials here also have the lowest non-mortgage debt burden among the 50 biggest metro areas in the U.S. The average millennial in San Jose owes $18,376 in non-mortgage debt — $4,688 less than the U.S. median — according to LendingTree, which analyzed data collected from its 9 million users to rank the 50 largest metros in the U.S. On the other end of the spectrum, San Antonio, Texas, was ranked No. 1 in…

Experts predict that the future workforce is going to be a completely different landscape. And while the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that unemployment will continue to fall in the next year, they also forecast over 20 million new jobs created by the year 2020. It seems that there will simply be more jobs available than people are qualified for. This is a challenge that is felt even now, particularly by manufacturers. This is largely due to cutbacks in the recession 10 years ago, when following…

Pinterest’s peers — Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — have been drowning in toxic harassment, fake news and Russian disinformation campaigns. But even as Pinterest has rejected Silicon Valley’s aggressive, hype-driven way of doing business, and avoiding many of those pitfalls along the way, its slow-and-steady approach has long frustrated some investors.