Genalytics Inc. was featured in the December 11 issue of Mass High Tech for being granted a patent for its modeling software that automated the creation of analytic models using genetic algorithms reducing production time. The company applies its technology to the financial services market and direct marketing industry.
Newton Peripherals' Mogo Mouse, a lean portable laptop mouse, was featured in the New York Times Business section highlighting innovative new business gadgets: Business Tools, Small and Smart. It also received local coverage in the MetroWest Daily News on December 24, 2006.
A Boston Business Journal article featured client InstantBull.com as an example of the small businesses driving the patent market. Its software product gathers free content including message boards, stock market blogs, and financial information and enables discussions on any topic.
Mass High Tech announced in its September issue, two new customers for Vivox Inc.'s application-integrated Internet protocol (IP) communications platform. They are Florida online game developer Icarus Studios, and Australian gaming middleware maker BigWorld Pty. Ltd.
Cecropia, an independent game developer that integrates game play into an interactive animated film called "The Act" (created by former Disney animators) has been creating quite a buzz. Featured in the Society of Digital Artists's web magazine, GCSociety, in an article titled Caught in the Act, the company has also garned press coverage from Red Herring, The Boston Globe and NECN. To view the NECN video segment, click here.
Dr. Thomas Perls "longevity calculator" was mentioned in a Boston Business Journal article describing the Eons, the next online venture of Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor. The longevity calculator is based
A chemical detection device made by Innov-X Systems Inc. was recently used by the Smithsonian Institution to determine the metals used to make the buttons of Benjamin Franklin's coat. The same device is able to use spectroscopy to sort recycled materials and to monitor chemical pipes for corrosion. Innov-X of Woburn is one of a few handheld chemical-detection device companies expanding in Massachusetts. Executives attribute the growth to increased demand from both government agencies and commercial businesses, which are using the tools to fight anthrax scares, scan for illegal drugs or analyze soil samples. Read more about Innov-X in the April 28, 2006 Mass High Tech.
David Muller is an entrepreneur whose first vision-enhancement company sold for $980 million. Now he's taking the technology into a new market: security. His fledgling enterprise is Retica Systems Inc., a Waltham company working to develop a biometric device that scans the eye as a means of providing security for institutions ranging from defense installations to sports franchises. In coming weeks, the technology dubbed Cyclops, will be shipped to several undisclosed federal installations for a trial run. Read more about Retica in the March 13, 2006 Mass High Tech.
Spectra Analysis Inc. has raised $1.4 million in an initial round of financing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Venture Capital Fund of New England. Based in Acton, MA, Spectra Analysis is developing an infrared analysis machine for use in chemistry laboratories. Read more about Spectra's financing in the February 3, 2006 Boston Business Journal online.
Valve and other fluid control device maker Circor International Inc. announced its second acquisition this month with the $51 million cash-for-stock purchase of valve maker Hale Hamilton Valves Ltd. and its Cambridge Fluid Systems subsidiary. Earlier this month, Circor announced the purchase of Sagebrush Pipeline Equipment Co. of Tulsa, Okla., for about $12 million in cash and the assumption of debt. These acquisitions will help Circor branch into the military, marine and pipeline markets. Read more about Circor in the February 2, 2006 Boston Business Journal online.
Less than six months after announcing its $15 million Series A round, ThingMagic Inc. has added another $6 million in funding. The new funding includes investments by Cisco Systems and Nicholas Negroponte, the founding chairman of the MIT Media Laboratory, and will be put into product development. Read more about ThingMagic and the additional funding in the February 1, 2006 Mass High Tech online, and the February 2, 2006 Boston Globe.
Tasker Capital Corp. of Danbury, Conn., has completed a private sale of shares of stock, raising $9.3 million. Tasker is a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of products with various applications that use pHarlo technology. The company currently markets Close Call, an oral hygiene breath drink, and Unifresh Footbath, a grooming aid product for dairy cows. Read more about Tasker in the January 30, 2006 Mass High Tech online.
Info Security Products Guide, the world’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named Top Layer Networks, the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, one of its Info Security “Hot Companies” winners for 2006. Selected from an industry analysis of more than 600 info security vendors around the world, this honor comes to Top Layer Networks because of its innovative intrusion prevention technologies, executive management, market leadership and global reach, and ability to execute.
Harmony Line, Inc., is an MIT-based company that created Hyperscore, a software-based graphical music composition tool. The company recently launched H-lounge.com, a social-networking site that enables members to write their own ringtones, post them on the site and trade them with one another. In January 2006, to promote the site, the Harmony Line is holding a ringtone writing contest, open to MIT students, alumni and their families. Although developing unique ringtones is only one of the social interaction features of H-lounge.com, it is a market with potential. Read more about personalizing cell phone ringtones on H-lounge.com in the January 23, 2006 issue of Mass High Tech.
Boomers! Redefining Life After 50, a television production of Boomer Media Properties, Inc., began airing on public television stations nationwide in January 2006. This 13-part series of half-hour magazine style programs will explore the issues, challenges and opportunities facing Boomers as they contemplate their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond. Boomers! Redefining Life After 50 is hosted by a Boomer couple, former NBC correspondent Nancy Fernandez Mills, and her husband, Mark Mills, a seasoned broadcast financial journalist.
Newton Peripherals has developed an innovative new product called the MoGo Mouse, which is a businesscard-sized, Bluetooth-enabled, wireless, handheld controller that easily slips inside a card slot on the PC for storage and charging when not in use. The MoGo Mouse has an attractive, ergonomic design with smooth indentations for left- and right-clicking, as well as a "kickstand" for holding it comfortably, and a tiny, rechargeable battery that lasts up to eight hours. The product will launch at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read more about this exciting new MoGo Mouse in the December 15, 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal, the January 2, 2006 Boston Globe, and various other publications.
