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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...
Read more Category: BostInno, Kibits, Matt CutlerNot even two months after announcing his intention to become an active angel in the "big data" sector, former Vertica CEO Chris Lynch is joining Atlas Venture, the Cambridge VC firm. What gives? Lynch told me yesterday that he felt compelled to sign on with a VC firm because he'd been...
Read more Category: Atlas Venture, Chris Lynch, Innovation EconomyIt’s been an eventful 24 hours for MIT. The university held the finale of its $100K Entrepreneurship Competition last night, naming CloudTop the grand prize winner. The company comes from the Web/IT track of the competition and is developing an application allowing users to access of all their online...
Read more Category: CloudTop, MIT $100K, XconomyCambridge-based startup GrabCAD isn't content to sit back and enjoy the success it's had so far — such as more than doubling the number of engineers using its CAD model library since the end of last year and a string of products designed for manufacturers through the site...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, GrabCad, Hardi MeybaumThis month’s initial public offering of Facebook will mint a lot of new multimillionaires. No doubt they will spend some of their wealth on fast cars, private jets, jumbo-size boats, and stunning vacation spreads in Hawaii. But as is the Silicon Valley tradition, they’ll also put some of it into a new generation of...
Read more Category: Chris Lynch, Dave Balter, Innovation Economy, Jean Hammond, Jennifer Lum, Jit Saxena, Jon Pierce, Steve PapaA new community space aiming to stimulate "big data" talent and startups in the Boston area, Hack/Reduce, is aiming to open in June after raising more than $500,000 from seven local venture capital firms and other backers. The space, likely to be located in Cambridge, will offer free...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, Frederic Lalone, hack/reduce, HopperThis 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...
Read more Category: BostInno, MIT $100KLately there has been a lot of talk about education technology in these parts. For example, MIT and Harvard are about to put more classes online with their new, $60 million edX partnership. But are universities really taking advantage of the latest tech trends? Though they were early adopters of the Web...
Read more Category: Andrew Yu, Modo Labs, XconomyA Cambridge native who played professional hoops in Israel is getting ready to launch a new online marketplace for private coaches. CoachUp founder Jordan Fliegel took the wraps off a test version of the site recently — and among more than 100 golf, squash and baseball coaches on CoachUp, you'll...
Read more Category: CoachUp, Innovation Economy, Jordan FliegelHospitals typically check patients in with one system, track their healthcare with another, and process insurance claims with yet another. Boston-based Kyruus is looking to pull together all these different data points and many more to help healthcare providers tackle patient care more efficiently...
Read more Category: Kyruus, Xconomy