Man vs. Machine: Can Software Trump Editors in the Newsfeed Wars?

Suddenly, digital newsfeeds are the hottest thing in consumer tech.

Big tech companies have been frantically opening their wallets in recent weeks to buy out small startups making mobile-friendly applications that... Read more »

Schmidt: Google Glass Critics “Afraid of Change,” Society Will Adapt

Google Glass is just getting into the hands of developers, and you’re still many months away from seeing consumers walking around with the voice-activated computer display/camera devices on their faces.

So... Read more »

Hate Facebook Ads? Nanigans Says Numbers Don’t Lie

As a garden-variety user, you might hate the increasing number of advertisements popping up on your Facebook feed. You may complain about them, perhaps quite loudly—even though that’s the price of... Read more »

Spark Capital: Startups Shouldn’t Have to Pay Our Legal Bills

Don’t let it be said that venture capitalists are a greedy bunch. Well, not all of them, anyway.

Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Boston-based Spark Capital, says the... Read more »

Here’s What It Looks Like When an Entire Country Loses the Internet

When you deliver nearly a third of global Web traffic, you get to see a lot of crazy stuff happen.

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global Internet traffic provider, is... Read more »

Boston-Area Deals: Life Image, MC10, Gizmox, Nanigans, Verivo

Updated 3:45 p.m.
Several private companies around Massachusetts are making fundraising news:

—Newton-based Life Image has raised $15 million in fresh capital. The company says the Series C round includes... Read more »

While Windows Slowly Shifts, Office Drives Forward

A good chunk of the technology industry spent the end of this week gorging on the performance of Microsoft’s Windows unit, which pulled off relatively flat growth despite some doomsday predictions... Read more »

Boston Briefs: Wayfair, Proletariat, Iora Health, Pixability

[Updated 5:10 pm to correct dollar figure to orders in first item.] Private companies big and small are making fundraising headlines this week:

—Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair reported... Read more »

Cue Ball Capital Adds $30M to “Evergreen,” Unconventional VC Fund

Cue Ball Capital, an unconventional Boston venture fund that counts some well-known business and media names among its investors, has added another $30 million to its ongoing investment fund.

The... Read more »

Highland Capital Partners Seeking $400M New Fund

Boston-area venture capitalists have been busy raising money in recent months, and here’s one more to add to the list.

Highland Capital Partners, based in Cambridge, MA, has filed paperwork... Read more »

Report: Matrix Partners Raises $450M Fund

Another Massachusetts venture capital firm is apparently rounding up a new batch of investment dollars.

Fortune is reporting that Matrix Partners, headquartered in Waltham, MA, has raised $450 million for... Read more »

Get Help, Give Help: Boston Tech Responds to Marathon Bombings

Nonprofits, companies, and service providers of all sizes across the technology scene are banding together in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, offering ways to show support, donate money, and... Read more »

Foursquare’s New Cash, New Focus: Why Local is So Damn Hard

Back in 2009, with the smartphone revolution just taking off, savvy app-makers started playing around with ways to use the iPhone’s GPS features, tracking where users are in real time. The... Read more »

Venture Deals Neared $7B in First Quarter, Up From 2012

We recently looked at which venture capitalists were raising money last quarter. Now we’ve got some insight into how they spent it.

Research firm CB Insights says it tracked $6.9... Read more »

Boston Roundup: Care.com, Kendall Square, SavingStar

Some hiring, regulation, and investing news around the Boston area in the past few days:

—Care.com, the heavily-financed operator of online caregiver search services, is stoking more speculation of... Read more »

TripAdvisor Picks Up Jetsetter from Gilt

A little bit of property changing hands in the online travel sector: Newton, MA-based TripAdvisor is buying travel-deals site Jetsetter from Gilt, a New York e-commerce startup.

No terms were... Read more »

More Fuel for the New Database Wars: ParElastic Raises $5.7M

Online, on-demand computing power has transformed the way businesses and everyday people use software and data storage. Just ask techies who had to buy racks of servers just to start their... Read more »

MA Venture Firms Lead the Way in Slow Q1 Fundraising

Three Boston-area venture capital firms led the nation in VC fundraising during the first quarter of this year, a slow period that reflects continued retraction and consolidation in the venture industry.... Read more »

One of the Lucky Few: HighFive Kicks Off Nike+ Accelerator

Brent Gilmore was just looking for a Web domain. He wound up with a co-founder, a new company, and a trip across the country.

Gilmore’s startup, HighFive, is part... Read more »

A123 Changes Name to B456 After Sale

[Updated 3/29, see below] An interesting footnote to a big, bad bankruptcy case in the cleantech world: The former A123 Systems, which fell into bankruptcy after huge stumbles in... Read more »