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MocoSpace Gains $3.5M, Moves Further Into Mobile Social Gaming
Gregory T. Huang Boston-based MocoSpace, a mobile social networking and entertainment startup, said today it has closed a $3.5 million financing round from SoftBank Capital. As part of the deal,...
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Dana Farber Gets $33M from Sanofi, Astellas Backs DecImmune, Ironwood Sells...
Erin Kutz The past week has kept us buzzing with news of funding rounds for startups in the cleantech, biotech, software, and Internet spaces. —Cambridge, MA-based Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:...
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Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos Talks Rock Band 3, Entrepreneur Advice, and...
Gregory T. Huang After you’ve saved rock and roll, what do you do for an encore? OK, Harmonix Music Systems’ chief executive Alex Rigopulos might disagree with that premise, but it’s a valid question...
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Our Top 20 Stories of the Third Quarter: What’s Making Waves in the NW’s Tech...
Thea Chard Last week marked my three-month anniversary here at Xconomy, and as I reflected on my time here so far (which just happens to coincide almost perfectly with the third quarter), I realized...
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Xconomy Boston’s Top 20 Stories of the Third Quarter: From A123 Expansion to...
Gregory T. Huang The third quarter of 2010 is going out with a monsoon in New England. It seems like a good time to hole up indoors and look back at some of the top stories we’ve done at Xconomy...
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Novel Seeks to Marry Casual Games With MMOs in “Empire & State”
Thea Chard I have never played a massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I played World of Warcraft once. In college. I was experimenting. But that was it, I...
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Nick Hanauer and Rich Barton Start New Social Gaming Company “King of the Web”
Thea Chard Early Amazon investor and aQuantive founder Nick Hanauer is teaming up with Zillow co-founder and former Expedia CEO Rich Barton on a new social gaming venture, according to Brier Dudley of...
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PlayFirst Wins $9.2M
Wade Roush PlayFirst, the San Francisco-based maker of popular iPhone, iPad, and Facebook games such as Diner Dash and Chocolatier, said Tuesday that it has raised $9.2 million in venture and debt...
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RPI Raises $5M More, Optify Nabs $6.1M from Triangle Peak, Madrona,...
Thea Chard For months the flow of news about Seattle-area technology company deals has felt like a trickle, and then all of the sudden this week we have deals coming out of our ears. It must be the...
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Ann Arbor’s BodegaBid Bets There’s Real Profit in Virtual Currency
Howard Lovy Mark Sendo of Ann Arbor, MI, is not into reality. Oh, the founder and CEO of BodegaBid says he briefly tried reality last spring, when his company partnered with a Seattle startup called...
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TechStars Demo Day Yields 10 New Seattle Startups—and a Lot of Work Ahead
Gregory T. Huang It’s pretty impressive what a few startup teams can accomplish in 90 days with a lot of hard work, mentorship, and late-night Maker’s Mark bourbon-fueled sessions. But their real...
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Nick Hanauer and Rich Barton’s Stealth Startup “King of the Web” Inches...
Curt Woodward From the drip-drip-drip department comes this little update on what some big names in Seattle tech are planning with their latest company. King of the Web, a stealth-mode social gaming...
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Facebook and Salesforce Hunt for Talent, Bing Rolls Out New Features, UW’s...
Curt Woodward Visits with some of Seattle’s big-name Silicon Valley invaders, details from some emerging startups, and new features for Microsoft’s underdog search engine are among the highlights in...
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PopCap Purchases ZipZapPlay
Gregory T. Huang Seattle-based PopCap Games said today it has acquired social gaming firm ZipZapPlay, based in San Francisco. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but ZipZapPlay has 17 employees (led by...
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Sir Mix-A-Lot, Giant Thinkwell to Posse Up
Curt Woodward Seattle social-game startup Giant Thinkwell, a TechStars company hatched at a Startup Weekend last year, is getting ready to roll out its first official celebrity-branded game, featuring...
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Edward Jung on Innovation, Startup Weekend Branches Out, Nuance’s Innovation...
Curt Woodward I’m still re-adjusting to Pacific time after spending most of last week back in Boston for XSITE 2011, the latest installment of our annual conference that brings together entrepreneurs,...
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Facebook and the Opportunity for eCommerce Entrepreneurs
Dayna Grayson The pieces are in place for Facebook’s IPO next week—not only has the company set its stock price range and updated its Q1 numbers, it has also attempted to de-risk the biggest perceived...
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Shawn Broderick, Now at Murfie, Says Innovation in Digital Music Is Only...
Erin Kutz Earlier this week news broke that Xconomist Shawn Broderick (center in the photo) was leaving the virtual goods exchange startup Oomba after a few months on the job. He joined the team when...
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Zynga to Shutter Offices in New York, Dallas, LA—Game Over for OMGPOP
João-Pierre S. Ruth The crops seem to be withering in the land of “FarmVille.” When social game company Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) announced on Monday plans to cut 520 employees, about 18 percent of its...
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ZyngaVille Has New Resident: Digital Health Startup Practice Fusion
Wade Roush From all outward signs, Practice Fusion is one of the fastest-growing technology startups in San Francisco, and Zynga is one of the fastest-shrinking. Now the two companies’ shifting...
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