It’s rare that chips and salsa lead to a startup funding deal. But this isn’t your average startup, and I’m not talking about the usual kind of chips and salsa. CoolChip Technologies, a Boston-area tech startup looking to make data centers more energy-efficient, raised $500,000 in seed funding...
Read more Category: CoolChip Technologies, XconomyVertica and Netezza, acquired. Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), gone public. What's next in "big data" innovation? Eight Boston area startups have some ideas. Well, not just eight — these are just a few of the ones on my radar due to their prominent founders, novel technology or hires from big data...
Read more Category: Adelphic Mobile, Boston Business Journal, Hadapt, InsightSquared, Kyruus, Objective Logistics, Paradigm4, Recorded Future, VoltDBBoston mobile technologies startup SCVNGR announced Thursday it's hired an Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM) veteran as its new chief technology officer, one of a number of Boston area startups with recent talent hires who came out of the Cambridge Web content delivery giant...
Read more Category: Akamai, Boston Business Journal, Harald Prokop, Ivan Stoyanov, J.D. Sherman, SCVNGR, Vienne CheungThe basic insight behind PowerInbox is pretty simple: email would be less of a nightmare if you could actually do more within it, like follow someone back on Twitter or comment on Facebook. The Cambridge-based company currently offers functionality like that for a variety of email clients but today announced...
Read more Category: BostInno, Matt Thazhmon, PowerInboxWhere in Boston can you drink or dine among the movers and shakers of the innovation economy? That was the question I've been posing to dozens of entrepreneurs and investors over the last few days. Basically, I wanted to know where they went regularly and were most likely to run into others of their...
Read more Category: Crema Cafe, Henrietta's Table, Innovation Economy, Meadhall, Naked Fish, VoltageIt’s not often that you hear an entrepreneur say his business grew through the real estate crash and economic downturn. But that’s indeed the case with Buildium, a Boston-based, maker of online software enabling landlords and small property managers to track rent payments, receive maintenance...
Read more Category: Buildium, Michael Monteiro, XconomyIn Boston, it can seem like most of the city’s population has either authored a textbook, assigned one for a course they teach, or purchased one recently. So that makes a recently filed lawsuit our city’s version of Viacom v. YouTube, or the Department of Justice v. Microsoft, one of those cases...
Read more Category: Aaron White, Ariel Diaz, Boundless Learning, Brian Balfour, Innovation EconomyWe're all accustomed by now to text-messaging friends and colleagues to coordinate brunches, ask questions, and schedule meetings. It's often the quickest way to get an answer from someone, even if they're multi-tasking. So why can't you text message a business? Making that happen is the goal...
Read more Category: Innovation Economy, Stuart Levinson, TalkToMy first reaction to Pinterest was that it felt like the internet with all the words sucked out of it, and that’s basically how I still feel. But you can’t deny that the visual organization has some real appeal, and that’s part of why I’m excited about the latest from Charlestown-based Springpad, which launched its...
Read more Category: BostInno, Jeff Chow, SpringpadIf the Internet needs a plumber, Jeremy Hitchcock is your man. It’s not sexy, it’s not glamorous, but as they say, someone’s got to do it. And if that someone does it right, well, he can build a very profitable, 150-person company right here in the great Northeast. That company would...
Read more Category: Dyn, Jeremy Hitchcock, Xconomy