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Ask Kibits, and you shall receive. Today the Cambridge-built micro-network app will be expanding its demographics with the unveiling of an Android version (pictured left) of its already-popular iOS software. The main reason behind the expansion? User requests. The release will be a custom...
This year, 215 teams submitted to the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, competing in six different tracks: Mobile, Web/IT, Products & Services, Life Sciences, Energy and the Emerging Markets. After narrowing the pool down to 50 semi-finalists, Managing Directors Alice Francis and Adam Borelli...
Boston’s location-based mobile ad network WHERE Ads has today announced it is undergoing a makeover. Just barely a year after eBay acquired WHERE for a cool $135 million, the company will be changing its name to PayPal Media Network.
“This is much more than a rebrand of our name...
Tonight, I think it’s safe to say that the center of New England’s entrepreneurial action will be in Providence, not Boston. This evening is the culmination of Betaspring, the Providence-based 12-week accelerator and part of the Global Accelerators network, a group of accelerators that...
The basic insight behind PowerInbox is pretty simple: email would be less of a nightmare if you could actually do more within it, like follow someone back on Twitter or comment on Facebook. The Cambridge-based company currently offers functionality like that for a variety of email clients but today announced...
My first reaction to Pinterest was that it felt like the internet with all the words sucked out of it, and that’s basically how I still feel. But you can’t deny that the visual organization has some real appeal, and that’s part of why I’m excited about the latest from Charlestown-based Springpad, which launched its...
Just because something has become a buzzword doesn’t mean it’s not a huge deal, and that’s the case with “big data.” We reported last month that Chris Lynch had stepped down from his position as CEO of Vertica and vowed to fund 20 big data startups, so naturally we reached out to hear...
The way we experience music isn’t just changing. It’s being revolutionized. Today, two companies that have worked together previously in spearheading this revolution have announced a new partnership. The Echo Nest and Spotify have integrated their APIs so Spotify app developers...
Vivox, a Natick-based voice integration platform focused on the social web, today announced it had acquired Droplet, Inc., which has developed patented technology that enables video chat on mobile networks and is based in New York City. Vivox has made strides in integrating voice chatting into...
Ever since Zuck Dawg made it look super easy to become one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs, everyone and their mom wants in on the action. The result? A lot of startups. Between developing a platform, raising capital and building a team, it’d be the understatement of the year to say that...
Startups seem to be one of the rare subjects for which there is still bipartisanship support in Congress. Just like crowdfunding, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives with support from both parties in November, the House today passed the “on ramp IPO” bill, legislation designed to ease startups’ path...
The 2012 MassChallenge competition is officially underway! Today, over 200 people attended the official kickoff of the world’s largest startup competition. The event was held at their spacious office in the seaport district. And even though it was rainy out, spirits were high and you could feel the excitement...
Mobile is a hard space to be in if you’re not playing well with Apple and Google. Few know this better than Skyhook, the Boston-based company that pioneered location tracking technology for mobile phones. Apple stopped using Skyhook’s technology in 2010, and Motorola and Samsung – both makers of...
As Havard Business School professor Josh Lerner thanked the audience to conclude his interview of NEA Chairman and Co-founder Dick Kramlich, the keynote event this morning at this year’s HBS Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference, Kramlich interrupted him. Speaking to a room of hundreds...
Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Most web users live in the dark about who tracks what information about them online, but with the launch of Do Not Track Plus (DNT+), Boston-based online privacy firm Abine hopes to change that. DNT+ is a free browser add-on that blocks websites from sharing information...
College kids are bored, competitive, really into prizes, or all of the above. That’s my takeaway from the news that CampusLIVE has surpassed one million engagements this month. The company offers a destination for college students to compete against friends and classmates in “challenges” designed...
In rather undramatic fashion, Techstars Boston has just announced the newest class of startups for its spring accelerator program. These 13 lucky startups will work under a strong network of mentors for the next three months in their fancy Boston office in Kendall Square which is shared...
TechStars grad Promoboxx, which connects brands and retailers, has just locked up a HUGE deal with Chevrolet that is sweeter than actually having tickets to this year’s Super Bowl. For the first time ever, Chevy is pre-releasing its Super Bowl commercials through co-branded campaigns, each customized...
I once called Somerville based Echo Nest underwhelming and claimed that I have yet to be ‘wowed’ by their music intelligence platform. I was then hit in the face by comments of passionate supporters, a huge Nokia partnership, a Spotify deal and now a Twitter partnership – all in the last three months. Clearly, I spoke...
There’s a shortage of software designers and developers. It’s not a potato famine; I think we’ll survive. However, it is a real problem for many tech companies. Out of necessity springs invention. I’ve noticed lately a common solution to this problem has been independently created by multiple sources...
Typically, I avoid prediction posts for the simple fact that the social marketing and social business space changes so dramatically almost every day. Human behavior is hard to predict and the way we leverage tools and communicate with each other is always evolving. However, after reading a few 2012...
When asked, “Which schools in the Greater Boston area are direct competitors of Babson College,” President Len Schlesinger responds, “None.” He then points to a cartoon designed by Hugh MacLeod that hangs on a wall in his office and reads it out loud. “Don’t be the best in the world at what you do. Be the...
Recent TechStars grad Kinvey, has just announced a strategic partnership to provide seamless integration between a mobile app’s data backend on Kinvey and Urban Airship’s push notification capabilities on iOS and Android mobile platforms. The partnership will allow mobile app developers a streamlined...
Upon receiving word that Cambridge- based Shareaholic was launching deals, I almost fainted. How could a startup with an impressive early track record be moving into the online deals space crowded by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial? Well, the long and the short of it is that, they are, but it’s not what you think...
When Krishna Ramchandran started playing golf three years ago, it didn’t take him long to realize what his problem was. I realized I was really bad,” he says, very matter-of-factly. Most golfers are, when they get started, but Ramchandran wasn’t happy with his lot and set out to change it. “The iPhone...
What was originally intended to be 100 people sitting around Harvard’s new Innovation Lab, turned into an event with 800 RSVPs and at least 300 attendees in the University’s Burden Auditorium. Modeled after the NY Tech Meetup, that takes place monthly on New York University’s campus and has grown...
It is no surprise that RunKeeper is up to something big. Even though the South End-based company has been quietly building the future of digital health tracking and assessment, they are starting to make some serious waves in and outside of Boston. According to sources close to the deal, RunKeeper...
As mentioned last night I spent some time chatting with serial entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis at the unConference on Friday. Calacanis is the founder of Open Angel Forum (which was also in Boston last week), the Launch conference, and Mahalo. Before founding these...
Last Friday I attended MassTLC’s unConference with over 800 of Boston’s finest innovation enthusiasts. At first I had planned to attend at least 4 sessions and provide writeups for the BostInno audience, but immediately got off track because of some incredible conversations, ones that had me...
Most funded startups never make it past the initial seed round. What is stopping them? Three of Boston’s top investors – TechStars’ Katie Rae, Matrix Partners’ Antonio Rodriguez, and Eric Paley of Founder Collective – gave a bit of insight into what can make or break a startup aiming to make it to the next...