I guess this is one of those “it’s been awhile” posts that often end up on too many blogs around the web but nevertheless…it’s been awhile. It’s not that I have been busy with a new house, new baby and a new job but the real reason for the break was…I just needed a [...]

It looks like it will be a busy week after all.  The big news from around the web is that Enpocket, the Boston-based mobile advertising company will be scooped up by Nokia! 
Founded in 2001, enpocket is a mobile marketing, personalization and advertising platform for the wireless space that has produced thousands of campaigns for [...]

Just got the announcement that a local mobile outifit is being scooped up for $65M in cash.  The move comes after the company announce a 30% reduction of it’s domestic workforce in March. 
Indian firm Megasoft will acquire Boston Communications Group, Inc., for $3.60 per share of bcgi common stock, in cash, for an expected aggregate purchase [...]

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 [...]

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 a web technology or start-ups but it is big news anyway. Local technology giant EMC (Hopkinton) has agreed to acquire Bedford-based RSA for 2.1 BILLION dollars. I just love the sound of the $2.1 BILLION dollars. The deal amounts to about $28 Dollars per share for RSA stakeholders.
A quick look [...]

Cambridge based TopTenSources acquires Watertown based social shopping site Style Feeder according to TechCrunch. No details of the acquisition have been released (maybe in a morning release).
TopTenSources is a human edited best of the blogs on various topics. Style Feeder is a social shopping site where users can create a “wish list” of items [...]

For an undisclosed amount, Hopkinton based EMC Corporation has agreed to purchase ProActivity Software solutions out of Israel. ProActivity produces a BPM solution that will be plugged into EMC’s Documentum product line.

The apparent buzz for this news peice reported on Boston.com, Alarm Clock and serveral other sources, is that it is the 3rd Isreali [...]