Indie music discovery service OurStage decided to fill me in on how well they’re doing as a startup in the difficult online music business, and I was quite amazed to see how much they’ve progressed over the years. On a financial level, the company has fantastic prospects; they expect to hit profitability sometime next year if all goes well. That should Read more
Category: Consumer Web, OurStage, TechCrunchAlmost 50 years ago, a Harvard-educated president gave voice to a lofty ambition: to send men to the moon before the end of the 1960s. A collection of brainiacs at MIT and Raytheon designed and built the electronic navigation system that safely guided six Apollo spacecraft to the lunar surface. Earlier this year, another Harvard-educated president laid Read more
Category: eScription, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Nuance, The Boston GlobeThe private e-mail addresses of several hundred customers of Waltham, MA-based Pixily were accidentally shared with other customers Saturday in the aftermath of an Internet routing snafu that left many users unable to reach the document-scanning service for several hours. The breach, in which names intended for the “bcc” line of a customer Read more
Category: Pixily, Storage, XconomySince the beginning of 2007, more than 30 investors have left seemingly lucrative spots at New England venture capital firms, a trend that appears to be picking up, a review of Mass High Tech’s venture industry database has found. The game of musical chairs at the senior level — mostly general partners, but a few senior principals and venture partners — has Read more
Category: Eric Hjerpe, Jo Tango, Kepha Partners, Mass High Tech, Sim Simeonov, Vinit NijhawanSince the beginning of 2007, more than 30 investors have left seemingly lucrative spots at New England venture capital firms, a trend that appears to be picking up, a review of Mass High Tech’s venture industry database has found. The game of musical chairs at the senior level — mostly general partners, but a few senior principals and venture partners Read more
Category: Mass High Tech, Venture CapitalIn March, on the day Cisco Systems Inc. announced it was entering the server market, the company posted a YouTube video championing its impact on future data centers. The head cheerleader: EMC Corp. chief executive Joseph Tucci. “Without a doubt, Cisco is one of EMC’s most strategic partners,” Tucci said in the video. Indeed, EMC (NYSE: EMC) has Read more
Category: EMC, Mass High TechIn March, on the day Cisco Systems Inc. announced it was entering the server market, the company posted a YouTube video championing its impact on future data centers. The head cheerleader: EMC Corp. chief executive Joseph Tucci. “Without a doubt, Cisco is one of EMC’s most strategic partners,” Tucci said in the video. Indeed, EMC (NYSE: EMC) has Read more
Category: EMC, Mass High TechYesterday Google announced that the “My Location” feature familiar to anyone who’s used Google Maps on a mobile device—the little blue button that shows you your position on a map—is now available to people accessing Google Maps from their laptop or desktop computers as well (as long as they’re using the latest versions of the Firefox or Chrome browsers). But Read more
Category: Google, Skyhook Wireless, XconomyIn “How to Irritate People,” the 1968 television special written by British comedian John Cleese, an obsequious waiter (fellow Monte Python player Michael Palin) interrupts diners incessantly, fussing over every detail. Boston entrepreneur Josh Bob has had to figure out how to prevent his restaurant-business customers from doing something Read more
Category: Mass High Tech, Mobile, TextaurantMarathon Technologies Inc. has replaced CEO Gary Phillips, the company reports, and CFO Dan Sullivan is serving as interim CEO while the company recruits a replacement for Phillips. Phillips joined the Littleton-based maker of fault-tolerance software in 2005, shortly after the company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Previously, Read more
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