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Although the Hubcap usually reports on Boston-based company, we think it’s fair to stretch our house rules to report on Mountain View based Meraki Networks. The wireless mesh networking company was launched to commercialize the technology developed in the MIT Roofnet project, and counts current and past MIT researchers among its founders and advisors.
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Zipcar, the urban car sharing pioneer, announced $25 million in funding led by Greylock Partners, with participation from Globespan Capital Partners existing lead investor Benchmark Capital.
Along with the investment, the Cambridge company announced the launch of operations in London, its first international market. The […]

Om Malik reports that Khosla Ventures has made a $6.2 million investment in iSkoot, a Cambridge based mobile VoIP startup we reported on last month. Khosla Ventures is the investment vehicle of Vinod Khosla, former partner at VC powerhouse Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, Byers and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
In addition, iSkoot announced in mid-November that […]

Boston-based mobile marketing firm Enpocket was named a winner of the 2006 International Summit Marketing Effectiveness Awards competition for its Vodafone Live Music campaign. Enpocket’s campaign allowed consumers to use their mobile handsets to learn about, rate, and gain admission to private music performances sponsored by Vodafone.
Enpocket was launched in 2001 and draws its […]

Andover startup Helium is a unique take on user-generated and peer-moderated content. The site allows individuals to contribute original articles on a wide variety of topics. Upon submitting an article, Helium asks the authors to select the better of two anonymized stories on a similar topic. Highly rated stories appear more prominently […]

Cambridge-based Sconex is looking to make its mark as a social networking site for the high school crowd. Calling themselves “the unofficial web site of your high school,” the company lets students create profiles, blog, search for other students, set up groups for clubs, and create small quizzes. But the web site’s key […]

Bedford-based Groove Mobile has been investing in scaling out its mobile music platform, expanding its music catalog and hiring a director of off-portal marketing to oversee its expansion beyond white-label music catalog services to direct, Groove-branded “off deck” consumer services.
Groove’s music service is available on the Sprint network in the US, which saw 8 million […]

Satellite television provider DirecTV announced this week that it had selected Cambridge-based ChoiceStream to power a new personalized program recommendations feature for its 15.5 million subscribers called “My TV Planner.”
This is just the latest in a series of wins for ChoiceStream, which offers personalization solutions for online services, television, and mobile applications. Existing customers […]

Startup Boston-Power announced an $8M Series A venture financing from Venrock Associates and Gabriel Venture Partners. The Westborough company aims to develop new Lithium-ion battery technology to power mobile devices including laptops, mobile phones, and PDAs.
Boston-Power was founded in 2005 by Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud, who previously researched battery technology at Arthur D. Little and Bell […]

In a move sure to warm the heart of Boston travelers, the Boston Globe reports that the FCC has ruled that Massport cannot prohibit airlines and independent operators from offering wi-fi services at Logan Airport.
The Massport machine had argued that any alternatives to its high-priced wi-fi offering (”sponsored by the Nokia 770 Internet tablet!”) would […]