Cambridge, MA-based Sayagle has launched today a new location-based social community and deals marketplace for consumers and local merchants in the Boston area. The site lets businesses provide daily deals and rewards, targeted mainly for students at local universities. Founder Ken Huang is a Boston University, Harvard, and MIT grad who previously co-founded WebNotes and also worked at Lucent, Nortel, and IBM. Huang says Sayagle is rolling out with 150 local businesses, including some 30 percent of Boston’s Chinatown restaurants, and currently reaches more than 20,000 local-area students.
Author: Gregory T. Huang
Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003.
Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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