Somerville based Dataupia has raised $15M in initial funding from the likes of Polaris Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners of Vienna, Va. The overly tech-buzz-word filled homepage of the company states that they will “change the way the industry thinks of enterprise computing data management, while setting new standards in ease-of-use, total cost of ownership, [...]

Swaptree, “social bartering” site out of Boston, has received a second look from popular tech blog TechCrunch. Great review for a local company that is currently in a controlled Beta. The company is an interesting concept that will let people easily trade or swap items like books, CDs, DVDs and other materials without exchanging any [...]

Not sure how geeky that title really is but Westwood, MA based MicroOptical has just received funding for their new visor technology that creates a large format (about 12 – 14″) virtual video view for use with your iPod. The deal was for $11.53M led by Atlas Venture and including Intel Capital Hillman Company and [...]

In a move that could signal the next generation of the online video industry, Sony BMG Music Entertainment has launched a new music channel service MusicBox that features full length music videos. The service itself provides a fairly standard online video player provided through a partnership with Cambridge, MA based Brightcove Networks. However, the real [...]

Cambridge based ChoiceStream has raised $13.1 Million to further port it's online personalization technology over to mobile devices and set top boxes. The series B round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures along with General Catalyst Partners and Sage Hill Partners. ChoiceStream's software was designed to provide personalization services to online consumer content sites like [...]

Welcome to the inaugural post for the New England Web 2.0 Blog. I’ve started this post as a way to both comment and categorize new technology start-ups within the Boston area and throughout New England. Why? It will attempt to make sense of why the Boston area, which formerly was a strong hold for new [...]