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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.
Unstrung […]

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 […]