Doxo’s bid to wipe out paper business correspondence attracted a $10 million round of venture financing last month, outpacing several others as the biggest single venture deal in Washington state last month, according to data compiled by CB Insights. Doxo‘s Series B investment was led new investor Sigma Partners, and included returning investors Mohr Davidow … Continue reading “Doxo, Kashless, Physiosonic led WA’s Equity Financing Deals in February”
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Thinking Phone, Seeing Big Opportunity in Cloud Communications, Is Amping Up Headcount
Imagine if your business phone system could track your employees’ sales actions, help you consolidate offices, connect you with offshore manufacturing facilities, and make your mobile phone act like an office landline. Cambridge, MA-based Thinking Phone Networks is aiming to do that (and more) with its cloud-based communications platform. It’s a somewhat crowded space, but … Continue reading “Thinking Phone, Seeing Big Opportunity in Cloud Communications, Is Amping Up Headcount”
T-Mobile’s Sale to AT&T: What They’re Saying, What it Means for the Northwest
The sale of Bellevue, WA-based T-Mobile USA to AT&T for $39 billion shook up the mobile world this weekend, both nationally and in the Seattle area. It’s unclear what the practical effects will be for T-Mobile employees in the Puget Sound region, and we might not know for some time: The companies say the acquisition … Continue reading “T-Mobile’s Sale to AT&T: What They’re Saying, What it Means for the Northwest”
Jumio and the “Anti-Cash League”: Adventures in Viral Video
“It’s dirty, covered in microbacteria and traces of cocaine … [it] fuels criminal activity … it may be green in color, but it certainly is not good for the environment.” What is this nefarious threat? It’s cash money, at least according to Sebastian Cole of the Anti-Cash League. Cole is the British expert featured in … Continue reading “Jumio and the “Anti-Cash League”: Adventures in Viral Video”
Alnylam CEO: Tekmira Accusation of Trade Secret Misuse was a “Big Surprise”
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals CEO John Maraganore found out his firm was getting sued by one of its business partners for more than $1 billion when an e-mail arrived in his inbox a few minutes after a press release on Wednesday. This was a bombshell, to say the least. The CEO of Vancouver, BC-based Tekmira Pharmaceuticals said … Continue reading “Alnylam CEO: Tekmira Accusation of Trade Secret Misuse was a “Big Surprise””
Bay Area Life Sciences 2031: The Photo Gallery
California has one of the worst state budget shortfalls in the country, some godawful transportation bottlenecks, and housing prices that are high enough to send most newly minted PhD’s into talk therapy. And despite all that, in 20 years’ time, San Francisco will still be the world’s No. 1 place for creating innovative new drugs, … Continue reading “Bay Area Life Sciences 2031: The Photo Gallery”
Tekmira-Alnylam Lawsuit Centers on Drug Carrier Particles
Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:[[ticker:ALNY]]) has been working with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals (TSE:[[ticker:TKM]]) of Vancouver, BC, since at least 2006 on getting its gene-silencing drugs into cells to treat diseases. But the partnership has gone sour. Tekmira has filed a lawsuit that is seeking what could amount to more than $1 billion from Alnylam. Alnylam, founded … Continue reading “Tekmira-Alnylam Lawsuit Centers on Drug Carrier Particles”
New Rules for the New Internet Bubble
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. What are … Continue reading “New Rules for the New Internet Bubble”
HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan on M&A Strategy, Lessons from PTC and Groove, and Boston as the “Next Madison Avenue”
They are the “Mad Men” of the future—the guys (and gals here in the 21st century) at marketing-tech companies like HubSpot, Constant Contact, DataXu, BzzAgent, Demandware, and Performable. I’m not a big fan of the show, so I won’t take the analogy much further. But perhaps Brian Halligan, the co-founder and CEO of Cambridge, MA-based … Continue reading “HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan on M&A Strategy, Lessons from PTC and Groove, and Boston as the “Next Madison Avenue””
Alnylam Settles One Lawsuit, Hit With Another; Living Proof Raises $16M, Tolerx/GSK Drug Fails to Meet Goal, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News
New England’s biotech attorneys must be working overtime, if the week’s headlines are any indication. —Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam (NASDAQ:[[ticker:ALNY]]) announced it had settled a long-standing legal dispute over the so-called Tuschl I and Tuschl II patent families. The suit, which involved key players in the field of RNA-interference including Alnylam, Max Planck Society, the University … Continue reading “Alnylam Settles One Lawsuit, Hit With Another; Living Proof Raises $16M, Tolerx/GSK Drug Fails to Meet Goal, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News”
Online Sales “Leakage” Costing WA About $740M Over Two Years—Even With Amazon Collecting Sales Taxes
[Updated at 4:10 p.m. with more statistics and a correction, see below] Washington is one of the few states where Amazon.com collects sales taxes and sends the money to the government. But Washington is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars each year to sales tax “leakage” from online retail sales. In Thursday’s forecast of … Continue reading “Online Sales “Leakage” Costing WA About $740M Over Two Years—Even With Amazon Collecting Sales Taxes”
FivePrime Nabs Partner, Solazyme’s $100M IPO Plan, Where Blockbuster Drugs Come From, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News
I was a teensy bit preoccupied this week organizing and moderating our first life sciences event this week at Xconomy San Francisco, but managed to keep up with a few of the big headlines that crossed my desk. —FivePrime Therapeutics, the South San Francisco-based developer of protein drugs, said this week it struck a deal … Continue reading “FivePrime Nabs Partner, Solazyme’s $100M IPO Plan, Where Blockbuster Drugs Come From, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
How to Enchant Your Way to Tech Success, Kawasaki Style
You’re a technology entrepreneur—more power to you. You’ve built a great product that solves a real problem—congratulations. Unfortunately, that’s only half the battle. Maybe even less than half. Now you have to make the world believe in you and your product. That’s the part of entrepreneurship that many innovators and startup founders aren’t prepared for. … Continue reading “How to Enchant Your Way to Tech Success, Kawasaki Style”
Now Showing on Gas Station TV: Impulse Buying!!!!
You’re pumping gas in the middle of an errand-filled Saturday afternoon. A commercial for the eatery down the road on the screen appears above the pump. Suddenly, your stomach growls. You head to the restaurant, armed with a coupon the pump had just spit out. For Gas Station TV, based in Birmingham, MI, that scenario … Continue reading “Now Showing on Gas Station TV: Impulse Buying!!!!”
Amylin Suspends Obesity Drug Development, Sapphire Energy Partners with Monsanto, 23andMe Gets Connected to UCSD’s Fowler, & More San Diego Life Sciences News
On this St. Patrick’s Day, it seems only appropriate to lead our roundup of biotech news with an item from San Diego’s Sapphire Energy, the algal biofuels startup using biotech tools to develop emerald-green crude. We’ve got the rest of the life sciences news too, as well as a hearty “Top o’ the morning” to … Continue reading “Amylin Suspends Obesity Drug Development, Sapphire Energy Partners with Monsanto, 23andMe Gets Connected to UCSD’s Fowler, & More San Diego Life Sciences News”
Myomo Follows “Path of Perseverance,” Rolls Out Next-Gen Robotic Arm System for Stroke Patients
A rehab-robotics startup out of MIT is getting a second lease on life. And if the company succeeds in reaching the masses with its latest effort, a lot of stroke patients might just feel the same way. Myomo, a Cambridge, MA-based rehabilitation and medical tech firm, announced this week it has rolled out version 2.0 … Continue reading “Myomo Follows “Path of Perseverance,” Rolls Out Next-Gen Robotic Arm System for Stroke Patients”
Android Smartphone Web Browser Is 52 Percent Faster than iPhone Browser, Study Finds
As if the smartphone wars weren’t fierce enough already, now comes an additional piece of ammunition for defenders of Google’s Android mobile operating system. On average, the Web browser pre-installed on Android phones loads Web pages 52 percent faster than the Safari browser on Apple’s iPhone, according to a study released today. In other words, … Continue reading “Android Smartphone Web Browser Is 52 Percent Faster than iPhone Browser, Study Finds”
Tekmira Sues Alnylam, Alan Aderem Bolts to Seattle BioMed, Dendreon’s Warhorse Retires, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News
This week’s big headlines came from a couple of personnel moves, and one potentially nasty trade secrets lawsuit. —Dendreon (NASDAQ: [[ticker:DNDN]]) said that David Urdal, the chief scientific officer who lived through the company’s roller coaster story over the past 15 years, plans to retire at the end of 2011. Urdal, 62, says it’s time … Continue reading “Tekmira Sues Alnylam, Alan Aderem Bolts to Seattle BioMed, Dendreon’s Warhorse Retires, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News”
Former Boston Scientific Exec and UCSD Physician Team Up at Startup Topera Medical
Here’s an interesting development involving figures in the medical devices scenes of Boston and San Diego. Topera Medical, a secretive startup launched in 2008 in San Diego, has established a new headquarters in the Boston area to develop a catheter system for rapidly identifying the source of irregular heart rhythms in each patient. The Lexington, … Continue reading “Former Boston Scientific Exec and UCSD Physician Team Up at Startup Topera Medical”
Speedbump App Alerts Parents To Teen Speeding, But Keeps Mum on Good Behavior
If teen drivers were given the choice between the thrill of speeding or the freedom from parents knowing their every whereabouts, they’d choose the latter. Or at least that’s the assumption that Lunenberg, MA-based father-son startup WirelessESP is betting on with its new mobile app, Speedbump. “It sets up that psychological game,” says Dick Fischer, … Continue reading “Speedbump App Alerts Parents To Teen Speeding, But Keeps Mum on Good Behavior”
Intellectual Ventures: Troubled Japan Plant’s Technology is Like a Model T Compared to TerraPower’s Next-Gen Nuclear Systems
Intellectual Ventures, the invention lab headed by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, says the technology behind its nuclear-energy startup TerraPower is vastly more advanced than the earthquake-damaged nuclear reactors currently making dire headlines from Japan. In a blog post Wednesday, Intellectual Ventures said all of its employees based in the Tokyo office were safe, … Continue reading “Intellectual Ventures: Troubled Japan Plant’s Technology is Like a Model T Compared to TerraPower’s Next-Gen Nuclear Systems”
From Human Tissue Supplier to R&D Contractor to BioBank Builder, Asterand Seeks Its Future
When Asterand acquired BioSeek last year, the company wasn’t just buying another fast growing San Francisco area startup. Asterand was buying a big chunk of its future. Faced with slowing growth in its core business of supplying drug makers with human tissue, the Detroit-based company has been trying to position itself as a full scale … Continue reading “From Human Tissue Supplier to R&D Contractor to BioBank Builder, Asterand Seeks Its Future”
Tekmira Sues Alnylam for $1 Billion, Accusing Partner of Misusing RNAi Trade Secrets
[Updated 10:40 am ET, with Alnylam response] Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, the Vancouver, BC-based maker of technology to deliver RNA interference therapies, has filed a lawsuit against Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals seeking damages of more than $1 billion because of what Tekmira’s CEO calls “relentless and egregious” misappropriation of trade secrets. Tekmira filed the legal complaint (see full … Continue reading “Tekmira Sues Alnylam for $1 Billion, Accusing Partner of Misusing RNAi Trade Secrets”
Growth in TV Access, Capabilities, Driving Demand for MaxLinear’s Technologies
A seemingly insatiable demand for technology that can process TV signals and accommodate proliferating technical needs is helping to drive the growth at MaxLinear (NYSE: [[ticker:MXL]]), according to Kishore Seendripu, chairman and CEO of the Carlsbad, CA-based semiconductor design company. In a presentation yesterday afternoon at Roth Capital Partners growth conference for small cap companies, … Continue reading “Growth in TV Access, Capabilities, Driving Demand for MaxLinear’s Technologies”
FivePrime Nabs $495M Deal With Human Genome Sciences to Develop Cancer Drug
FivePrime Therapeutics said last summer that there was “significant interest” in its lead protein drug for cancer, and now we can see that interest has translated into a big new partnership. South San Francisco-based FivePrime said today it has secured a $50 million upfront payment, plus as much as $445 million in additional milestones, as … Continue reading “FivePrime Nabs $495M Deal With Human Genome Sciences to Develop Cancer Drug”
See You Tonight at Bay Area Life Sciences 2031
Will the San Francisco Bay Area continue to be the world’s No. 1 hub for life sciences innovation 20 years from today? What kind of impact can we expect this next wave of GenenExers to make? Or will San Francisco lose its mojo to other places with high quality of life and low cost of … Continue reading “See You Tonight at Bay Area Life Sciences 2031”
Amylin and Takeda Suspend Obesity Study to Consider Metreleptin Data
The hits just keep coming for San Diego’s Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AMLN]]), and not in a good way. Amylin and Japanese strategic partner Takeda Pharmaceutical said today they have suspended a clinical trial examining the safety and effectiveness of an obesity drug candidate that combines pramlintide acetate, a synthetic analog of the natural hormone Amylin, … Continue reading “Amylin and Takeda Suspend Obesity Study to Consider Metreleptin Data”
Innovation Has Deep Roots That Require Constant Tending
In the 15th century, British noblemen decided that they needed brighter colors for their coats of arms to help their armies more easily distinguish them on muddy battlefields. They naturally approached suppliers in their own nation. But when British tradesmen refused to accept this innovative approach to their traditional ways, the noblemen turned to Germany, … Continue reading “Innovation Has Deep Roots That Require Constant Tending”
The Lean Launchpad at Stanford—Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses
Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here. By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them … Continue reading “The Lean Launchpad at Stanford—Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses”
Report: Zillow Hires Bankers Ahead of IPO
Seattle real-estate website Zillow.com has hired Citigroup to manage an initial public offering, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources. Bloomberg said its sources didn’t identify any timeline for a possible Zillow IPO. The company hasn’t yet filed an S-1 prospectus to declare its IPO plans, which would identify its underwriters, and reveal how much cash it … Continue reading “Report: Zillow Hires Bankers Ahead of IPO”
Harvest Power Hauls In $51.7M Led by Al Gore’s Investment Firm
This is one of the bigger cleantech deals we’ve seen around the country. Waltham, MA-based Harvest Power, a waste-to-energy startup that’s building a plant near Vancouver, BC, said today it has raised a $51.7 million Series B financing round led by Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm co-founded by Al Gore and David Blood. New … Continue reading “Harvest Power Hauls In $51.7M Led by Al Gore’s Investment Firm”
StudentMentor Matches Mentors and Protégés Online
[Editor’s note: due to an editing oversight, this story was originally published under the byline Wade Roush. It was actually written by freelance contributor Elise Craig. Sorry Elise!!] When StudentMentor.org co-founders Ashkon Jafari and Stephanie Bravo were in college, they felt lost. Bravo, a first-generation college student, had her sights set on medical school, but … Continue reading “StudentMentor Matches Mentors and Protégés Online”
What’s Next for Skyhook Wireless? Location Tech for Games, E-Books, and, Yes, Android Phones
Skyhook Wireless may have won the audience favorite vote during the “location smackdown” at Xconomy’s Mobile Madness conference last week, but people in the tech-business community are still wondering: what’s next for the firm? Boston-based Skyhook, founded in 2003, is a pioneer in location-positioning technology for mobile devices. The company’s software determines the precise location … Continue reading “What’s Next for Skyhook Wireless? Location Tech for Games, E-Books, and, Yes, Android Phones”
Geoffrey Moore: Why Middle Managers Are the New Kings, Stiff-arming Shortsightedness, & the Money “Chasm” in the Mobile-Social Sphere
Author, consultant, and venture capitalist Geoffrey Moore has written a half-dozen books—his latest comes out later this year—including the classic “Crossing the Chasm,” an analysis of how businesses can push through the deadly barriers to broad adoption. This Friday, he’ll be a keynote speaker at the Washington Innovation Summit sponsored by the Technology Alliance. Booking … Continue reading “Geoffrey Moore: Why Middle Managers Are the New Kings, Stiff-arming Shortsightedness, & the Money “Chasm” in the Mobile-Social Sphere”
World Energy Backs Retroficiency, American Superconductor Gets Finnish Firm, BuyWithMe Buys LocalTwist, & More Boston-Area Deals News
This week’s deal news spanned companies working on marketing, energy, daily deals, medical devices, and beauty products. —Retroficiency, a Boston-based software-as-a-service firm focused on energy efficiency, announced it had raised $800,000 in funding from Worcester, MA-based energy management services firm World Energy (NASDAQ: [[ticker:XWES]]). Angel investors, including Jean Hammond and Jill Preotle, also provided funding … Continue reading “World Energy Backs Retroficiency, American Superconductor Gets Finnish Firm, BuyWithMe Buys LocalTwist, & More Boston-Area Deals News”
European Automakers Begin to Adopt Maxwell’s Ultracapacitor Technology
The conference rooms are filled close to capacity today at the Roth Capital Partners’ annual conference for small-cap companies in Dana Point, which the Newport Beach, CA-based investment banking firm is calling its biggest conference in 23 years. “The Japanese situation has tempered a bit of the enthusiasm today,” said Ted Roth, Roth Capital’s president, … Continue reading “European Automakers Begin to Adopt Maxwell’s Ultracapacitor Technology”
Jeremy Jaech Leaves CEO Post at Seattle’s Verdiem
[Updated March 21 with comment from Jaech, see below] Longtime Northwest tech entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech has left the chief executive post at Seattle-based Verdiem, Xconomy has learned. Experienced tech entrepreneur and executive John Scumniotales, now heading the company as president and CEO, says the change was amicable and will allow Verdiem to move more aggressively … Continue reading “Jeremy Jaech Leaves CEO Post at Seattle’s Verdiem”
Xconomy Editor Successfully Avoids Wrecking Electric Car. Entire World Rejoices.
Who Killed The Electric Car? Hopefully not me. As I surveyed the commotion at the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor Monday morning, I couldn’t help but think of that documentary for a couple of reasons. One, I was just about to test drive one of the next-generation electric … Continue reading “Xconomy Editor Successfully Avoids Wrecking Electric Car. Entire World Rejoices.”
The Apple of Solar Energy? Enphase Applies Silicon Valley Smarts to Solar’s Neglected Plumbing
When the sun shines, free electrons pour out of rooftop solar panels in the form of direct current (DC). But every light bulb, fan, and appliance in a house needs alternating current (AC), which reverses direction 60 times per second. And therein lies a huge headache for installers and owners of photovoltaic systems. The central … Continue reading “The Apple of Solar Energy? Enphase Applies Silicon Valley Smarts to Solar’s Neglected Plumbing”
Alnylam, UMass, and Others Settle RNAi Patent Litigation
[Updated 3/15/11, 2:28 pm ET. See note below] Litigation concerning key patents involved in the development gene-silencing drugs known as RNA-interference therapies has been settled. Cambridge, MA-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:[[ticker:ALNY]]), a developer of RNAi therapies, said today that the firm and all others involved in the lawsuit over certain rights to the Tuschl I and … Continue reading “Alnylam, UMass, and Others Settle RNAi Patent Litigation”
Will the Bay Area Still Be the No. 1 Biotech Cluster in 20 Years? We’ll Ask Tomorrow
It’s tough, as baseball great Yogi Berra once famously observed, to make predictions, especially about the future. But that’s the risky business we’ve signed up for tomorrow night, as I plan to ask a handful of visionaries to think big about how they see the San Francisco Bay Area biotech hub evolving over the next … Continue reading “Will the Bay Area Still Be the No. 1 Biotech Cluster in 20 Years? We’ll Ask Tomorrow”
VBrick Sets Up Boston Office to Tap Into Area Talent Pool, Looks to Expand Online Video Streaming Services
VBrick Systems, a Wallingford, CT-based provider of technology for the live streaming of video content online, is expanding its footprint in New England. The company, founded in 1998, is adding an office in Boston, where it hopes to have 10 employees by the end of the quarter and 20 employees by the end of the … Continue reading “VBrick Sets Up Boston Office to Tap Into Area Talent Pool, Looks to Expand Online Video Streaming Services”
Genomatica and Tate & Lyle Form Strategic Partnership as CEO Explains “Feedstock Strategy”
The past couple of months have been busy for San Diego’s Genomatica, which is announcing a strategic partnership today with Tate & Lyle (LSE: [[ticker:TATE]]), a London-based food and industrial products manufacturer with extensive U.S. operations. Just two weeks ago, Genomatica revealed it had raised $45 million in venture capital, bringing the company’s total financing … Continue reading “Genomatica and Tate & Lyle Form Strategic Partnership as CEO Explains “Feedstock Strategy””
Grab a Beer With Me and My New Partner in Crime, Curt Woodward, at the Xconomy Meetup March 22
Every now and then—pretty much whenever I feel like it—we here at Xconomy like to invite our readers to come out and shoot the breeze with us over a beer. These are some of my favorite events, and I have a really good excuse to schedule a new one now—it’s time to introduce readers to … Continue reading “Grab a Beer With Me and My New Partner in Crime, Curt Woodward, at the Xconomy Meetup March 22”
Tippr and BuyWithMe’s Round 2, Dissecting Amazon’s Sales Tax Skirmishes, Clearwire’s Shakeup, & More in Seattle-Area Tech News
Competition in the crowded daily-deals market got a little more pugnacious recently with an acquisition by group discount site BuyWithMe. The Boston- and New York-based company purchased LocalTwist, boosting BuyWithMe in San Diego and putting the company in a new market—Seattle. The latter city, of course, is the home base of competitor Tippr, the Martin … Continue reading “Tippr and BuyWithMe’s Round 2, Dissecting Amazon’s Sales Tax Skirmishes, Clearwire’s Shakeup, & More in Seattle-Area Tech News”
Edimer, Third Rock’s Bet on Rare Diseases, Aims to Begin First Human Tests
Edimer Pharmaceuticals wants to break new ground in the treatment of patients with an ultra-rare genetic disorder called X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, or XLHED. And the small venture-backed operation based in Cambridge, MA, is tapping the talents of some of the area’s rare disease veterans to try to pull it off. The firm, with primary … Continue reading “Edimer, Third Rock’s Bet on Rare Diseases, Aims to Begin First Human Tests”
Animoto Opens Slide Show Creation Tools to Kodak Gallery and More Partners
There’s a slew of tools like Apple’s iMovie for turning your raw photos and videos into fun multimedia slide shows that you can share with friends and family. The problem is that none of them are drop-dead simple—except perhaps Animoto’s. The startup, which is based in San Francisco and New York and backed mainly by … Continue reading “Animoto Opens Slide Show Creation Tools to Kodak Gallery and More Partners”
Alan Aderem, With Team in Tow, Bolts From ISB to Take Leading Role at Seattle BioMed
Alan Aderem, the immunologist who co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology a decade ago with Leroy Hood and Reudi Aebersold, is leaving the Seattle research center to take over the presidency of another of one of the Northwest’s other leading centers of biomedicine—the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. Aderem, 55, is joining Seattle BioMed as director, … Continue reading “Alan Aderem, With Team in Tow, Bolts From ISB to Take Leading Role at Seattle BioMed”
Monster.com Touts New Image of Mobile Apps and Social Networking for Job Seekers at SXSW
There’s a new face at South by Southwest (SXSW) this week. It’s Monster.com, the Maynard, MA-based employment and job search site that’s making its first-ever appearance at the weeklong mega-gala in Austin, TX. Monster.com is powering the “SXSW Hiring Hub,” an online portal for job listings posted by companies and other organizations attending South by … Continue reading “Monster.com Touts New Image of Mobile Apps and Social Networking for Job Seekers at SXSW”
Google Funds HubSpot, AdGrok Emerges from Beta, Steve Blank Calls for “E-Schools,” & More Bay Area BizTech News
Our infotech coverage at Xconomy San Francisco was on the thin side last week, mainly because I spent the week in Boston organizing and emceeing Xconomy’s annual mobile technology conference, Mobile Madness. Here’s the brief rundown: —Three Bay Area organizations—Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce.com—led a large Series D financing round for Cambridge, MA-based HubSpot, … Continue reading “Google Funds HubSpot, AdGrok Emerges from Beta, Steve Blank Calls for “E-Schools,” & More Bay Area BizTech News”