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 [...]

Utterz.com, a Maynard based site that I first covered earlier this year and one of the few technology stories that broke on 93south, came back out of stealth today and expanded their product offering to include impulse publishing of both pictures and video in addition to the original voice service. I had a chance to [...]

Need to know what to wear and how to do your hair 24/7?  Waltham based mobile start-up Quattro Wireless announced a new contract to power the mobile version of celebrity hairstyle site, BeautyRiot.com.  The San Francisco-based fashion site provides image galleries of your favorite celebs like Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, etc. BeautyRiot [...]

I received such a great response from the first Boston Mobile 2.0 round-up from earlier in the week, that I decided to create another list to point out the local start-ups that I missed on the first list!

A bit off topic for the Boston Web 2.0 scene, but I have to admit – I love my iPhone! Very few tech gadgets actually deliver on their pre-launch promise but I have to give Apple respect…it rocks! With over 1 Million iPhones sold to date, this maybe the launch that finally brings the mobile industry out of their closed architectures and into the modern web 2.0 world.

It was an excellent turnout at the webinno13 event last night at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge.

I was going to make a joke about how it’s become so cool to Twitter from web 2.0 events and that I would not be surprised if someone “Twittered” tonight. However, being that this is a local technology blog, I am going to try and keep it local and use Maynard, MA based Utterz and “Utter” from the event…

Third Screen Media, the Boston-based provider of mobile advertising and marketing software and services, announced that they have completed a $3 million round of venture capital funding led by TD Capital Ventures of Boston with participation from Blue Chip Venture Company of Cincinnati, OH. “Rapid changes in the advertising marketplace have created a strong focus [...]