The past 24hrs have had a few great announcements for the Boston area tech industry including funding, site launches and new feature announcements. Here is a quick run down of the events.
Invoke Solutions Grabs 7M – First reported in the BBJ, on Xconomy and now TechCrunch, Waltham, MA based online and mobile research firm [...]

Valleywag is reporting that Waltham based Lycos is considering shutting down old-school web know-how site WebMonkey. Whether or not this may be a publicity stunt or an idea leaked idea without real intent is yet to be seen. If it is true, this would be a sad day for anyone who learned HTML [...]

Waltham based email marketing outfit Constant Contact recently announced a $15 million round of venture capital led by Greylock Partners ($10 million) and also $5 million from their existing investors, including Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Hudson Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners, and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners. Constant Contact will use the proceeds to fund its current and [...]

Waltham’s V.i. Labratories (I think the “i” is done on purpose) has secured it’s first round of funding from Rockford Captial and others. The funding will be used to build a core team and market the company’s innovative application security technology.
V.i. Laboratories’ software protection technology is designed to safegaurd intellectual property within applications, enterprises and [...]