IBM has announced plans to bring its Watson Health team to Boston, Rob Weisman reported in the Globe today. Named after the IBM artificial intelligence platform that bested human contestants in the television quiz show “Jeopardy,” Watson Health will seek …
Don’t expect this kind of zippy action from your Congress…
After having breakfast on Wednesday at the Mandarin Oriental in Boston, venture capitalists Brad Feld and Jeff Bussgang decided to “open-source” a novel strategy for creating more H1-B visas for …
Over the past five months, the on-demand butlers working for Hello Alfredhave worked over 40,000 hours, dry cleaned 57,600 shirts, delivered 3,326 pounds of dog food and carefully arranged 1,280 bouquets in homes. Now, the startup has another number it …
Localytics, the Boston-based app analytics and marketing company, turned heads last month when it raised $35 million in a Series D round. The influx of cash — it’s raised $58 million in total — made Localytics the most well-funded startup …
The inaugural meeting of Capital W: The Boston Women’s Venture Summit wasn’t just another conference, it was a Silicon Seneca Falls. And if you don’t get my reference, go read about Susan B. Anthony’s conference in 1848 where women met …
Don’t fear the pivot, says Pixability chief executive Bettina Hein.
When she started the company in 2008, in the thick of the recession, the mission was to help small businesses make marketing videos cheaply. Pixability would even mail out a …
My latest Boston Globe column looks back at the impact of two initiatives born in Cambridge in 2005: Web Innovators Group and Y Combinator. I also ask what we can do to improve Boston’s stickiness for consumer-oriented web and mobile …
The business of online, one-day fantasy sports betting has become huge almost overnight.
Here’s one way to measure that explosive growth: DraftKings, a Boston-based company founded in 2012, is reportedly attracting investment from one of the biggest names in sports …
If Boston is the world’s leader in cutting-edge drug development, the city can now also argue that it’s also ahead of the curve in building delivery systems that get those drugs to patients. ZappRx, a Boston-based startup that has worked …
Fiksu, a mobile marketing technology company that last year said it had surpassed $100 million in annual revenue, has laid off about 10 percent of its workforce as part of a reorganization, chief executive Micah Adler said.
Chief financial officer …
