Posted in startups on November 8th, 2006 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in startups on November 7th, 2006 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in startups on November 6th, 2006 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in startups on November 1st, 2006 No Comments »
GigaOm reports today that Boston startup Skyhook Wireless is developing a new location-based services plugin for AOL Instant Messenger that will enable users to broadcast their physical location to their buddy list in real time.
Skyhook’s existing flagship product, Loki, is a plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that displays localized product listings, search results, and […]
Posted in startups on October 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Conde Nast, having recently reunited the long lost wired.com with its namesake Wired Magazine, has acquired social news aggregator Reddit.
Reddit is the most prominent alumnus of Paul Graham’s minimalist startup incubator Y Combinator. In recent months, Reddit has experimented with private label versions of its site that aim for audiences other than their geek […]
Posted in startups on October 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Hot on the heels of Google’s acquisition of YouTube, the blogosphere is aflutter today with news of the launch of Brightcove’s new video publishing service.
The new service, dubbed the Brightcove Network, lets content owners large and small create custom video channels that can be embedded into any web site, as well as syndicated through a […]
Posted in startups on October 26th, 2006 No Comments »
WSO2 is an open source middleware startup with an unusual geographic footprint. Founded in in 2005 by former IBM web services guru Sanjiva Weerawarana, the company’s employees are split between Boston, Portsmouth UK, and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
WSO2’s offerings are based on the open source Apache Axis 2 project, and the company employees several key Apache […]
Posted in startups, people on October 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
CNET reported today on Curt Schilling’s post season plans, which center on his role as the founder and president of a multiplayer online gaming startup called Green Monster Games.
He of the bloody sock told the MIT Enterprise Forum on Monday night that he’s assembled his own dream team for the project, including Todd McFarlane (creator […]
Posted in startups on October 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
A quiet behemoth is growing in Waltham. NameMedia, formerly known as YesDirect, formerly known as BuyDomains.com, has its origins back in 1999 but was recently acquired and infused with cash by Highland Capital Partners and Summit Partners of Boston.
The core NameMedia business is as old as the web itself: domain squatting. But NameMedia […]
Posted in startups on October 17th, 2006 No Comments »
LocaModa is a Somerville firm focused on bridging the gap between mobile phones and the web in unconventional ways. Founded by Stephen Randall, former EVP and Founder at handset software foundry Symbian, and formally known as nVend, LocaModa launched its latest products in March 2006.
LocaModa’s products share the core idea of using conventional mobile […]