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An umbrella flash fills the room with light every few seconds as the lanky model Abba Binns stands in front of a stark white background. A mellow loop of music by the British DJ Aim plays from an iPod in the background as the photographer gives a few gentle suggestions to Binns: “Maybe just throw... Read more
Category: Ben Fischman, GSI Commerce, Innovation Economy, Rue La La, SmartBargainsAfter recent success with their first open market trials, Techstars company StarStreet Sports is getting football fever. StarStreet, a site that allows users (invite-only for now) to buy and sell virtual shares of the players and teams they love and make money from it. “You can think of StarStreet as... Read more
Category: BostInnovation, Jeremy Levine, Sean Lindsay, StarStreet SportsThat is correct Boston – we are losing another incredible asset to the West Coast. Kiki Mills, current president of MITX, will be re-locating to the West Coast to join her fiance. While we hate to see the migration of a great Boston leader, she is doing it for love, and not because there are more... Read more
Category: BostInnovation, Kiki Mills, MITXApple will shut down the Quattro Wireless ad network it acquired last year for $275 million, and will focus its efforts solely on the iAd mobile advertising product that Quattro's team has led at Apple. The change will go through on Sept. 30, Apple said in a memo to Quattro participants, which we... Read more
Category: Apple, Business Insider, Quattro WirelessTwo weeks after getting engaged to be married, MITX president Kiki Mills says she will leave the post at the end of October, departing for the West Coast to be with her fiance. Mills, who joined the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange in 1999, started out as director of business development for... Read more
Category: Kiki Mills, Mass High Tech, MITXSaveWave Inc. has launched as a provider of digital coupon solutions, and it has reported $2.3 million raised in its opening round of Series A funding. The financing was co-led by Flybridge Capital Partners and First Round Capital, with additional support from Founder Collective, IA Capital and angel investors... Read more
Category: Jeff Bussgang, Mass High Tech, SaveWave, UpromiseProvidence, Rhode Island-based Swipely, like a Blippy without the prices, has made its transaction tracking service available to the public today, officially leaving private beta. Swipely, which aggregates social purchasing data, does not reveal pricing on transactions as it wants the actual.. Read more
Category: Angus Davis, Swipely, TechCrunchIt’s no secret that consumers are looking for technology to help better handle e-mail communications. We’ve written about strategies for keeping the volume of your inbox down, and applications for reminding you to follow up on an e-mail conversation. Alexander Moore’s Cambridge-based... Read more
Category: Alexander Moore, Baydin, XconomyAccording to a press release sent to BostInno this morning, Waltham-based mobile advertising company Nexage was selected as the mobile “ad mediation” provider for Score Media Inc, home of ScoreMobile, a top ten app in Blackberry’s App World. We contacted Nexage CEO Ernie Cormier by email and asked... Read more
Category: BostInnovation, Ernie Cormier, NexageMeet angel investor Christopher Mirabile, Managing Director at Race Point Capital, and a key player in the Boston-area angel game. His days in the mid-1990s working on the legal side of a software company, later taking over as CFO, and finally taking the company public were too enjoyable for Mirabile... Read more
Category: BostInnovation, Christopher Mirabile, Race Point Capital