Yet more good news for RunKeeper users trying to stick to their goals. The company announced today that an updated version of its training plans, originally released as a paid product, will now be available to all users for free. As RunKeeper’s Chas Wagner writes on the company’s blog...
Read more Category: BostInno, GymPact, RunKeeperSince launching its mobile-and-social shopping app last November, Lexington-based Wikets has grown its community of shoppers to the "hundreds of thousands," CEO and co-founder Andy Park said in an interview. Shoppers do two things on the app: Recommend items from the 70 retailers...
Read more Category: Andrew Park, Boston Business Journal, WiketsI have been asking a pretty straightforward question over the past few weeks, on Twitter and by e-mailing my best-connected contacts: who has been most active in 2012 at working to make Boston's innovation economy better? I've curated that list, and woven in some names...
Read more Category: Aaron O'Hearn, Abby Fichtner, Chris Lynch, Cort Johnson, Dave Balter, Dmitri Gunn, Frederic Lalonde, Innovation Economy, Jean Hammond, Jeremy Weiskotten, Jon Pierce, Katie Rae, Mark Chang, Paul Hlatky, Reed Sturtevant, Sarah Hodges, Sean Lindsay, Shaun JohnsonTimothy Ericson and Jason Meinzer had their “a-ha” moment in Paris. They’d used the city’s newly launched bike sharing program Vélib’ and rode through the streets for hours. “We were fascinated by the idea you could hit your credit card, grab a bike and then explore these monuments,” Ericson says...
Read more Category: BostInno, ZagsterHubSpot plans to debut a fully revamped version of its popular marketing software Wednesday morning, with new tools for crafting personalized marketing as a centerpiece. The Cambridge-based firm planned to introduce the new HubSpot 3 features — aimed at adding large businesses to...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, Brian Halligan, David Cancel, HubSpotLast summer, when Lexington, MA-based Wikets revealed via an SEC filing that it had raised $1.5 million in funding, its website said it was building technology for users to share ideas with people they trust. Late last week the startup announced an update to its now-live mobile social...
Read more Category: Andy Park, Wikets, XconomyWhich Boston startup provides you one stop (rental) shopping for Disney-princess-themed bouncy castles, boats for booze cruises, and even a Zoltar fortune-telling machine just like the one from the Tom Hanks movie Big? Rentabilities, the same guys who created all the Twitter fuss last fall with a pirate-themed...
Read more Category: Alex Cook, Andy Cook, Rentabilities, XconomyBoston officials want to make registering to vote for elections as easy as clicking a Facebook application. During a meeting on Wednesday, City Council member Tito Jackson called for a hearing to examine the feasibility of bringing an online registration measure, similar to the one recently...
Read more Category: BostInno, MyVoteMuch has been written here and elsewhere chronicling the surge of interest in the urban core, as venture capital firms, biotech companies, and big software-as-a-service businesses have abandoned the suburbs, mainly heading for Boston's Innovation District and Cambridge's Kendall Square...
Read more Category: GSN Digital, Innovation Economy, Peter BlacklowHack/reduce, the Boston-area, big-data focused business organization founded earlier this year, is going to delay its opening of a Cambridge facility by a month or two – but if you saw the Kendall Square real estate they're working with, you'd understand. Hack/reduce hired away Microsoft...
Read more Category: Abby Fichtner, Boston Business Journal, hack/reduce