Posted in events on December 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Dramatic moments in the Boston tech community today as an explosion and fire struck a high-rise office building in Kendall Square this morning. Among other tenants, the affected building, 1 Cambridge Center, is the home to the Cambridge Innovation Center — an incubator space housing many local startups. The 17 story tower is […]
Posted in startups on December 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Last week the Herald featured an article on Mall Networks, a Lexington company that provides outsourced affiliate marketing programs to online retailers. Specifically, the story reported on CyberMonday.com, a site created by Mall Networks for Shop.org. That organization is a consortium of online sellers infamous for coining the term Cyber Monday just last […]
Posted in startups on December 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Cambridge startup Oxy Systems has announced the availability of its flagship product phling!, a mobile music sharing service with a social networking angle aimed at teens and young adults. Sensibly enough, the company seems to have chosen to downplay its corporate name when marketing to this demographic, to avoid conjuring thoughts of the similarly […]
Posted in startups on December 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Several Boston area startups previously featured on Hubcap announced additional funding in the past few weeks:
Cambridge based Top 10 Media, parent company of human-edited blog aggregator Top 10 Sources announced a $3.5M round led by Highland Capital. The company also announced the acquisition of blog aggregator Blogniscient. We previously covered Top 10 in […]
Posted in startups on December 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Boston open source consultancy Optaros has announced a $13M Series B from Globespan Capital, Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst Partners.
Optaros offers systems integration and consulting for companies looking to make use of open source software in their IT infrastructure. The company competes with firms including SpikeSource […]