Social gaming titan and Farmville maker Zynga priced its initial public offering at $10 per share, giving the company – which has a Zynga Boston location – a $1 billion IPO. That is the largest Internet IPO in the U.S. since Google Inc. went public in a $1.67 billion IPO in 2004. Zynga, based...
Read more Category: Mass High Tech, Nabeel Hyatt, ZyngaWell-known local angel investor Anita Brearton is joining “me-commerce” fashion startup FashionPlaytes in a full-time, executive chairman role, she said Wednesday. Brearton, an investor with Golden Seeds, plans to join the Beverly startup in mid-January. Golden Seeds is an investor in FashionPlaytes...
Read more Category: Anita Brearton, FashionPlaytes, Mass High TechBoston startup Fiksu Inc. has launched a new way to get paid mobile applications for free after downloading some free trial apps. The new service, called FreeMyApps, launched today, according to a release from Fiksu. The apps are iOS-based apps only, so only available for use on an iPhone...
Read more Category: Fiksu, Mass High Tech, Micah AdlerBoston Seed Capital LLC has tripled its size in adding Dave Balter, CEO of BzzAgent, and Pete Blacklow, president of WorldWinner, to the seed-stage investment firm’s partnership. Company founder Nicole Stata launched the firm in 2010. The team will continue focusing predominantly...
Read more Category: Boston Seed Capital, Dave Balter, Mass High Tech, Nicole Stata, Pete BlacklowWith good traction on engaging college students for brands such as McDonalds, Boston web startup CampusLIVE plans to expand its service to include non-students in the next year. “We likely might not be known as CampusLIVE within the next six to 12 months,” said Boris Revsin, founder and CEO of the company...
Read more Category: Boris Revsin, CampusLive, Mass High TechWasabi Ventures, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture capital firm with an office in Manchester, N.H., is bringing some attention to the New Hampshire tech startup scene. The firm has launched VentureX – New England, a startup pitch competition to be held Jan. 26, 2012, at the abi Innovation Hub...
Read more Category: Mass High Tech, VentureX, Wasabi VenturesDina Routhier is leaving the Mass Technology Development Corp., the state’s tech venture capital firm, at the end of November for a position doing corporate development at Autodesk Inc. in Waltham, according to a release. From the release: “Dina has spent 12 years at MTDC, helping early-stage...
Read more Category: Dina Routhier, Mass High Tech, MTDCWith Facebook Inc. founder and leader Mark Zuckerberg in town today to recruit the best and brightest from Harvard University and MIT, Boston ad delivery startup Nanigans Inc. has chosen this day to release the fact that it delivered 80 billion ad impressions on the social giant in the third quarter alone...
Read more Category: Mark Zuckerberg, Mass High Tech, NanigansApparently buttering up a host city before swiping from their greatest assets is the Facebook way. Okay, maybe that’s just business as usual for any company, but when your name is Mark Zuckerberg and you’ve had an Academy Award-nominated movie made about your little programming project gone...
Read more Category: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Mass High TechOracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) plans to pay $1.1 billion to acquire privately-held Endeca Technologies Inc., according to a document obtained by the Boston Business Journal related to the deal. Oracle announced Oct. 18 that it had reached an agreement to buy the Cambridge-based search engine technology...
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