Buy, rent, or build: these are the options for acquiring a network monitoring system that fits enterprise needs. Here is one company that decided to build its own. By Nick Hardiman The Enterprise Cloud,Tech Republic Lately, I’ve looked at the… Read More
By Bradley J. Fikes U-T San Diego A La Jolla venture capital firm and the British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline have formed the first of up to 10 San Diego biotech companies under a $495 million alliance announced in April. Avalon… Read More
By Deborah Gage Wall Street Journal Air Computing Inc., which is doing business as AeroFS, emerged publicly Friday with software that lets customers privately share files in a way that no outsider–not even their software provider—can gain access to their… Read More
Chartio Customers Generate 500,000 Charts Every Week, 2 Million Every Month SAN FRANCISCO, CA — One year has passed since launch and Chartio customers like Fab.com, Indiegogo, Ancestry.com and MyAsics.com are now generating a combined 500,000 charts every week, or… Read More
Inventor of Current TV Paradigm Sees Simulmedia As Future Of TV Ad Sales Market Watch Simulmedia, a targeted television advertising company, today announced that Philip (Phil) Guarascio, the former Vice President of Corporate Advertising and Marketing at General Motors and… Read More
BostInno Let’s be honest: the meaning of the phrase “in the cloud” is a bit nebulous (no pun intended). Cloud is quickly becoming one of the biggest burgeoning sectors in Boston, and yet there are nearly too many variations on… Read More
Completes Integration with Taxi With Us to Increase Inventory in Metropolitan Chicago BOSTON and CHICAGO, Oct, 28, 2013 – Committed to rapid expansion of its local service platform, Pingup today announced it has partnered with Taxi With Us, a family… Read More
Retailers enjoy strong returns on their ads, a new report suggests. Internet Retailer Zak Stambor As ads on Facebook become more effective they also cost retailers more, according to a new report from social media advertising firm Nanigans based on… Read More
Video assets on campus are booming, but few institutions have a video management strategy, says Kaltura. Streaming Media By Troy Dreier Educational institutions aren’t sure how to deal with the growth of video content, and need guidance on what to… Read More
BostInno The time has come to nominate for BostInno’s 50 on Fire. After it’s inaugural success, we are bringing back the epic awards event to honor the biggest movers and shakers in the Hub. For those of you who missed… Read More
Forbes A recent PWC report indicates that online ad spending will see a tremendous increase by 2017, from $2.3 billion in 2012 to $5.9 billion in 2017. This, however, is small in comparison to television’s share of advertising spend which is expected… Read More
Bost.Inno For brands across all industries, Facebook is a core component of their marketing strategy. With over 900 million people on the social network, it is an invaluable vehicle for building brand awareness, engaging consumers, and driving traffic to your… Read More
Cheezburger co-founder and CEO on how internet culture has become a part of everyone’s content diet Ahead of the Activate New York Summit 2013, Ben Huh, the founder and CEO of the Cheezburger spoke to us about mobile, memes and… Read More
Database-as-a-service company cited in August 2013 report BOSTON, Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Cloudant, provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced that database industry analysts from Gartner, Inc. have included Cloudant in its August 2013 “Who’s… Read More
BOSTON, Sept. 10, 2013 PRNewswire Cloudant, provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced it will host Apache CouchDB Conf Vancouver, a one-day conference for the CouchDB community November 13, 2013, in Vancouver, Canada. To register interest and receive… Read More
Xconomy Bruce Bigelow There was a spate of significant developments following the Labor Day holiday, as San Diego’s life sciences companies continued to take advantage of favorable market conditions. Here’s my rundown from a pretty newsy week. —Otonomy, the San… Read More
Newsle.com Yesterday at the Cambridge Innovation Center Rich Levandov and Brady Bohrmann of Avalon Ventures discussed a few of the truths that Venture Capitalists are known to gloss over. The event was called ‘Things Venture Capitalists Say that Just Aren’t True”… Read More
Easily Visualize Your Data from the Rackspace, Amazon, Google, Heroku and Microsoft Clouds San Francisco, CA — August 14, 2013 — Today Chartio, an award-winning interface to data, announced support for Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Azure, bringing plug and… Read More
Tech Cocktail Guest Author: Dr. Michael Tsur If you ask CEOs and business partners what their company goals are for the next year, you’ll likely hear one recurring answer: growth. But growth doesn’t happen overnight, and it certainly doesn’t happen… Read More
Kyle Alspach VC Editor- Boston Business Journal In the second quarter of 2012, Facebook generated 3 percent of its ad revenue from news feed ads on mobile devices. By the second quarter of this year, that amount was 41 percent.… Read More