The Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, an organization of 7,500 New England professionals in the Internet and digital marketing and advertising fields, handed out its yearly Technology Awards for the sixth time last night. Meant to celebrate the local companies who are bringing the most innovative technologies to bear on real business Read more
Category: Affinnova, Crimson Hexagon, Ember, EveryZing, LogMeIn, MITX, Netezza, Oco, Pixily, ScanScout, SCVNGR, Swaptree, Turbine, VidSys, Virtual Computer, Wordstream, XconomyWhat if the imagination of a video game developer became the seed bed for a crop of Hollywood epics and TV series? And what if movie and TV directors left the backlot to build video games? Massachusetts companies are betting these developments are around the corner. Between film production and video game development lies Read more
Category: 38 Studios, GamerDNA, Gaming, GenArts, Mass High Tech, WorldWinnerSay you’re running an oil company and you operate dozens of offshore drilling platforms. You have a fleet of gas-guzzling helicopters to transport the hundreds of technicians who commute every day from the shore to their rig or from one rig to another—but the numbers traveling and their destinations change every day depending on Read more
Category: Dynadec, HR Apps, Software, XconomyWhen times are good, Boston's executive recruiters and placement specialists chase skilled candidates like greyhounds after a rabbit. But when the economy turns, suddenly it's the candidates who pursue recruiters, calling and e-mailing in the hopes of hearing first about a position that just materialized, or getting a status update on that Read more
Category: Jobs, Scott Kirsner, The Boston GlobeHere's one way to stop feeling guilty about shopping during the recession: Get on the computer and buy with friends - or even strangers - and receive deep discounts on local products and services. A growing number of websites are capitalizing on a new collective buying trend that offers promotions to groups of online shoppers. Over the past six months, two sites Read more
Category: BuyWithMe, Consumer Web, The Boston GlobeSome investors behind a Cambridge company that helped make Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader a success are balking at its proposed $215 million sale, saying its cutting-edge technology is worth more. The surprise June 2 announcement that E Ink Corp. had agreed to be purchased by Prime View International of Taiwan, one of the year's Read more
Category: E Ink, The Boston GlobeData storage company EMC Corp. of Hopkinton may sweeten its $1.8 billion offer to buy Data Domain Inc., according to a published report. Citing anonymous sources, the Reuters news agency reported yesterday that EMC will boost the value of its all-cash offer to acquire Data Domain, a Santa Clara, Calif., maker of de-duplication products that Read more
Category: Data Domain, EMC, The Boston GlobeWhen you’re a technology reporter and you stumble across the same startup two or three times in quick succession, it’s the journalism gods telling you to write a story. I first stumbled across Spreadshirt on Tax Day, April 15. (As I’d later learn, the Leipzig, Germany-based startup has been famous among Web-savvy fashionistas for years, but I’m Read more
Category: Consumer Web, eCommerce, XconomyAOL, the New York-based Internet portal company soon to be spun off by Time Warner, said today that it has acquired Going, a Boston startup that publishes an online guide to nightlife, music, and cultural events in Boston and 29 other U.S. cities. The purchase is part of a strategy at AOL to invest in more sources of Read more
Category: Consumer Web, General Catalyst, Going, Highland Capital, Social Networking, XconomyAll over the world, runners and athletes are turning to Boston for expert coaching. And it’s the efforts of Boston’s software developers, not its pro sports franchises, that are drawing the eyes of a new generation of champions. Boston is becoming a hub for information technology and games that help people achieve fitness goals. AWare Technologies Inc., FitnessKeeper Inc. and Read more
Category: AWare Technologies, FitnessKeeper, Mass High Tech, Molecular