FROM FORTUNE — Good Technology, a software company, is expected to announce that it plans to acquire BoxTone, a sometime partner in the growing business of helping companies manage, monitor and secure employees’ mobile devices. Terms of the deal will … Continued
Think Through Math is a web-based program that allows elementary aged students to practice and prepare for the often intense state math tests that they will endure in later years. At this critical age, many students, often under-performing, are allowed … Continued
MANHEIM Plans have been initiated in the town of Manheim to possibly become a natural gas hub – but not via hydrofracking. Boston-based Xpress Natural Gas has proposed a compressed natural gas filling site on farmland, drawing from the Iroquois … Continued
JERUSALEM, Feb 18, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A distribution alliance worth 13.5 million USD over an initial period of five years was signed this week, between Israeli-based Applied CleanTech (ACT) and Canadian Sewage Mining Corporation (CSM) , thus becoming the … Continued
BodyMedia, a company recently acquired by Jawbone, develops wearable technology such as the UP band that benefit users medically. The company is the creator of an armband that helps people lose weight by tracking multitudes of data particular to the wearer. Read … Continued
January 29, 2014, 2:16 PM — Twitter is reportedly working on an e-commerce project powered by Stripe, a company that acts behind the scenes to process payments for sharing-economy startups such as Lyft, Postmates, and Sidecar. What that social-shopping initiative … Continued
Portland-based Chirpify is making its television debut Sunday in a campaign with Oreo that will turn consumer tweets into cookies. “This is huge for us,” said Chirpify CEO Chris Teso. “For the first time people can interact directly off TV … Continued
The arrival of cheap shale gas in New England has created a vast gulf between the haves and the have-nots — the users that are on the pipeline network and the ones that aren’t. But any challenge can lead to … Continued
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cleantech Group™, provider of the i3 market intelligence platform and global consulting services, today announced preliminary 2013 results from its i3 data product. The firm reported that in Illinois, clean technology venture investment during 2013 totaled $45,537,437. … Continued
Marketers now use social media expertly to “engage” audiences? But, whilst such schemes are good top-of-funnel branding mechanisms, what about sealing the deal with an actual purchase? Chirpify is a start-up hoping to close that circle, by letting consumers buy … Continued
