Connie Loizos
With Congress reconvening in the next two weeks, efforts to quash what many see as overreaching anti-piracy legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), are heating up online. For one thing, Web activists are beginning to vote with their pocketbooks. After Congressman Paul Ryan issued a statement that some interpreted as supportive of the bill, critics […]
A few years ago, a Website hit the Interwebs that was both funny and helpful called Let Me Google That For You. The idea behind it: To have somewhere to send people who ask questions they could easily find if they weren’t so damn lazy. (In a nutshell, you search at the site for whatever someone […]
BodyShopBids, a Chicago-based online and mobile platform that customers can use to solicit custom auto repair estimates, today announced that it has secured $1M in series A financing led by OCA Ventures. New World Ventures and Lightbank also participated in the round. Jim Dugan, managing partner of OCA Ventures, and Jeff Maters, vice president of […]
The New York-based book and digital media retailer Barnes & Noble, after recording record holiday sales for its digital NOOK business, is now looking to sell it, according to CEO William Lynch. It’s “the right time to investigate our options to unlock that value,” he said in a statement released today. PRESS RELEASE: Barnes & […]
It’s a poorly kept secret in the startup world that in March, a new book that takes the deepest dive yet into the many trade-offs entrepreneurs face will be published. The reason it’s so highly anticipated? Because the book, The Founder’s Dilemmas, authored by Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman, is the culmination of roughly […]
In the last twelve months, Jawbone, a 12-year-old, San Francisco-based company best known for its elegant Bluetooth headsets, has raised an astonishing $159 million, including $40 million just weeks ago from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Deutsche Telekom, and Russian investor Yuri Milner. While the company didn’t disclose the valuation of its latest round, the Wall […]
A year ago, the folks behind the the nonprofit TED launched TED Books — short, digitally distributed nonfiction works spun out of the guest talks at TED’s exclusive conferences. One of the newest books to emerge is Smile: The Astonishing Power of a Simple Act, based on a popular TED presentation in March of this year […]
Michael Junge is a recruiter on staff at Google, focusing on hiring executive level talent for the company. But he’s also written a new book for a broader readership, about mastering the job search process in the digital age. Called Purple Squirrel — a insider’s term that recruiters apply to hard if not impossible-to-find talent […]
Boston-based Third Rock Ventures has unveiled a new company, Ember Therapeutics, a product-focused company that’s trying to harness breakthroughs in brown fat biology and insulin sensitization to revolutionize the treatment of metabolic disease. Third Rock, a venture firm that helps incubate life sciences companies, has given Ember $34 million in Series A financing. PRESS RELEASE: BOSTON, Dec […]
The Cambridge, Mass.-based venture firm Atlas Venture has partnered with the publicly traded, Dublin, Ireland-based biopharmaceutical company Shire Human Genetic Therapies (“Shire”) to explore investment opportunities in early-stage rare disease therapeutics. PRESS RELEASE: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec 15, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Atlas Venture, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced that it has entered into […]