Fast-growing Cambridge marketing software firm HubSpot is "looking at a lot of M&A" as it continues to capitalize on its first acquisition, Performable, which cost the company $20 million, CEO Brian Halligan disclosed in an interview. Halligan, who said the company is eyeing acquisitions inside...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, HubSpot, PerformableCambridge startup Apptopia — a marketplace for buying and selling the rights to mobile apps, which is backed by Mark Cuban — has auctioned apps for as much as $11,000 since...
Read more Category: Apptopia, Boston Business JournalSince 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, WiketsHubSpot 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, HubSpotHack/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/reduceShawn Broderick will take an advisory role at Oomba, the West Coast video game company that acquired his text-message video game startup, Play140, after just a few months as president and chief operating officer there. Broderick's new role is vice president of customer development at Murfie...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, Murfie, Shawn BroderickWith the new college year soon to begin, Boston startup Boundless Learning has just released its first products — free online materials aimed at serving as substitutes for college textbooks — out of beta to the public. The company says it has worked with academic experts to craft "online experiences" that aim...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, Boundless LearningApple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is adding about a billion dollars a week to its cash position, now at about $117 billion and counting, notes New York Times columnist and CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin in a column published late Monday. What should CEO Tim Cook do with the cash? Sorkin presents an M&A...
Read more Category: Apple, Boston Business Journal, NuanceBefore Vsnap founder Dave McLaughlin was a Boston startup captain, he spent a decade as a screenwriter in Hollywood, ultimately going on to write and direct a film in Boston starring the likes of Eliza Dushku and Amy Poehler. He wrote the independent film, "On Broadway," while working in...
Read more Category: Boston Business Journal, Dave McLaughlin, VsnapData Point Capital — the new $50 million venture capital fund from Shoebuy founder Scott Savitz — is funded entirely by a group of nearly 40 individuals, many of them prominent Boston area tech entrepreneurs, Savitz said in an interview Tuesday. The Boston-based fund expects to make its first...
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