Restaurant owners can easily digitize menus for large video panels and websites, enabling real-time menu updates and searchability for customers   MarketWatch BOSTON, Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Cloudant, provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced…  Read More

By StreamAMG LONDON, July 30, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — StreamAMG, the European digital media group which includes StreamUK, released their new and improved Media Platform this month. The award winning* Media Platform is based on Kaltura’s CE codebase which was…  Read More

July 29 2013 Daily Research News NYC-based Simulmedia has developed a tool measuring and comparing the number of viewers who saw ads for a particular TV program and those who actually went on to watch it as a result. The…  Read More

Cloudant Contributes Database Scalability and Fault-Tolerance Framework to Apache CouchDB(TM) BOSTON, July 22, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Cloudant, provider of a globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), today announced that it has delivered on its promise to integrate core capabilities of…  Read More

MediaPost By Wayne Friedman Looking to help TV marketing executives take much of the guesswork out of evaluating TV program ad campaigns, TV audience-targeting company Simulmedia is offering a historical calculator that delivers promotion programming cost benchmarks. Using historical TV…  Read More

Matt Marshall Venture Beat Publishers like Facebook, Google’s YouTube, and Twitter are reporting an explosion in mobile advertising this year. After years of false starts, 2013 has become the year of mobile advertising. Notably, these publishers are doing better than some big ad…  Read More

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Patti Anderson (858) 634-4234 panderson@sdbj.com 2013 SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL INNOVATION AWARDS ANNOUNCE WINNERS SAN DIEGO, June 18, 2013 – The San Diego Business Journal held its 2013 Innovation Awards at the extraordinary Scripps Seaside Forum…  Read More

Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VCRA), the leading provider of solutions that address critical communications and productivity challenges facing healthcare, hospitality, retail and other mobile work environments, today announced that its founder and chief technology officer, Robert Shostak, PhD, has been…  Read More

Kevin Eigelbach Business First Backupify Inc., a technology firm co-founded in Louisville about five years ago by Rob May and Vik Chadha, is a good example of how to build a startup company, said Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of “Lean…  Read More

J.J. Colao, Forbes Entrepreneurs, Most Promising Companies: “Advertisers Love Tapad” Tapad is having a growth spurt. From a modest corner office, the digital advertising startup has encroached on the entire 20th floor of a building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood–with the…  Read More

TechCrunch Google is broadening its reach into the mobile app development world today through a partnership with Kinvey, which will provide an enterprise backend-as-a-service (BaaS) layer on top of Google App Engine. With Kinvey, Google App Engine will support iOS, Android and…  Read More

Proceeds Will Continue to Advance Clinical Development of Innovative Therapies to Combat Multi-Drug Resistant Bacterial Infections Seattle, May 22, 2013 – Cardeas Pharma Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies for the treatment of multi-drug resistant…  Read More

Fosters CONCORD — The New Hampshire Executive Council Wednesday approved the sale of the former campus of Great Bay Community College to Juliet Marine Systems, Inc. for a purchase price of $2.75 million.

VentureBeat Sean Ludwig Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today. Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists. The team struggled to move…  Read More

Zdnet By Sam Shead Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant has received $12m (£7.8m) to help it set up new offices, employ more staff and bring its technology to new markets. The Boston-based company announced on Tuesday that existing investors Avalon Ventures,…  Read More

paidContent Deanna Brown, who was the CEO of Federated Media, has joined e-singles startup Byliner as president, the company announced Thursday.

mediabstro By Jason Boog Former Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown has been named the new president at Byliner. The company collects short stories and articles online, and also publishes digital shorts.

By Bradley J. Fikes Avalon’s Lichter and GSK’s Cardon CHICAGO — A prominent San Diego venture capital firm is teaming up with drug giant GlaxoSmithKline in an ambitious deal to create as many as 10 life sciences companies in the…  Read More

By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF And JEANNE WHALEN wsj.com GlaxoSmithKline PLC will partner with venture capitalists from San Diego in an unusual deal worth up to $495 million to start several drug-discovery firms over the next three years. Under the collaboration,…  Read More