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 Invoke Solutions Grabs 7M – First reported in the BBJ, on Xconomy and now TechCrunch, Waltham, MA based online and mobile research firm announced $7 million in venture funding from North Atlantic Capital, Bain Capital LLC and BEV Capital.

Also reported on Xconomy and now on Techcrunch, Loki / Skyhook Wireless launched a new location service that will tell everyone where you are via wifi positioning technology. Do I actually want this? Reminds me of my Stalker.com post from back in 2006. Actually for mobile browsers and us iPhone users, this has great application to enable your map based programs know where they are.

Writers looking for a little extra cash? Andover’s Helium launched their writer marketplace yesterday. It’s basically a elance like platform for publishers to post submission requests including the what they are willing to pay for the article. When I looked yesterday, there were a decent load of requests with prices ranging from 70 – 180 per 700 – 1000 word article. Scott and the guys who actually get paid to write can tell me if this works out to a good per-word rate!

pat_patriot Finally, although I may have missed other stories, the New England Patriots released their Newenglandfootball.com site in an effort to expand their reach to the local fans through high school football teams. I love this story because it shows an innovative attempt to use social media by a major sports franchise but also because it gives the SEO expert in me a legitimate opportunity to reference the Tom Brady And Gisele Bundchen sex tape in a blog post. You dirty pigs are searching for it right now…or you will after this post!

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