Following up on the popularity of the 25 Boston Area CEOs to Follow on Twitter, here is yet another Boston Twitter list for your reading pleasure. I grouped together a list of 25 contacts from the recruiting and staffing industry here in the Boston area.

I just got back from another trip to the Paris office and I wanted to catch up on some activities from last week.  One of which is a great directory of area VC firms that Tom Summit posted on the Buzz in theHub blog.  The post includes (as of this post) a list of [...]

One of the local tech blogs that I have in my RSS reader (Google) is Jay Meattle’s Datum – its a great blog to add to yours. He just announced that he is moving from Compete.com to local start-up Lookery – a social media advertising play.
Good luck Jay – I’ve enjoyed your Datum and [...]

Local start-up veteran Reed Sturtevant will start a new job tomorrow.   The veteran of numerous startups has been recruited to start a development office for Microsoft in an example of another West coast firm expanding their footprint in the area to take advantage of the local talent and the young pups being pumped out of schools like [...]

paidContent is reporting that Watertown, MA based Cymfony, a market research and intelligence business founded in 1996, is being sold to UK based research giant Taylor Nelson Sofres for an undisclosed amount.  The company has spent the past few years positioning itself in the web 2.0 world or, as they put it ”at the intersection of [...]

Just after receiving 12.8 Million in VC, Linkedin’s chief executive, Reid Hoffman, has stepped down from his post and appointed Dan Nye to take the role at one of the key social networking start-ups of the Web 2.0 space.  It’s always interesting when one of the founders or early contributors to a popular start-up moves aside [...]

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired Grouper, the user-generated video site on the Internet, it was announced today by Michael Lynton, SPE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
The price seems a bit low to me. Is this a sign of things to come for the social / web 2.0 crowd? Considering that social [...]

Not exactly web but still good news for the area, Comcast announced it will add more than 400 new employees to its local workforce over the next 90 days to keep pace with robust customer demand for its cable television, high- speed Internet and voice products.
The jobs will be primarily be in installation and customer [...]