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• Mobile News: From Apperian to Zmags, Jumptap to Mitt Romney

  Some interesting news tidbits in Boston-area mobile and marketing/ad tech today.

  —Zmags, the Boston-based mobile and social commerce company, has raised $7 million from Square 1 Bank and existing investors OpenView... Read more »

• Neolane, DataXu, ClickSquared Ink Deals in Digital Marketing

  [Updated 12:20 pm] Here are a couple of notable Boston-area deals in digital advertising and marketing, each with a certain je-ne-sais-quoi European flair. Plus one more local company worth watching…

  —Neolane... Read more »

• LogMeIn Buys Bold Software for $16.5M, Expands in Customer Care

  Some business software news this morning. LogMeIn (NASDAQ: LOGM), the Woburn, MA-based remote access and customer support tech company, said it has acquired Kansas-based Bold Software for $16.5 million, including... Read more »

• Safari Books Buys Threepress, Forges Ahead In Digital Publishing Jungle

  What is the future of electronic books and digital publishing in Boston? We might be getting a glimpse of it today.

  The news is that Safari Books Online, a joint venture between O’Reilly... Read more »

• Tech Startup Deals: GrabCAD, Krush, Moontoast, & More

  It’s probably a good sign for the Boston tech startup community that we have to round up all these decent-sized financings just to keep up with the news. On the other hand,... Read more »

• Ray Ozzie’s Next Big Thing: Cocomo

  Since when is naming your startup and posting a job ad news? When your name is Ray Ozzie, that’s when.

  The former Microsoft chief software architect and Lotus veteran has surfaced after a year... Read more »

• VC Fundraising Scorecard: General Catalyst, Excel, OpenView, & More

  [Updated 1/5/12] The first week of the new year is a good time to take stock of where venture capital firms are in their fundraising progress. No question that unless... Read more »

• The Boston Tech Year in Review: Endeca, RSA, and More

  A lot has happened in the technology world in the past year. So let’s take a minute to reflect on the defining moments of 2011 and where we stand now, as a local... Read more »

• VelQuest Bought by Accelrys for $35M

  ‘Tis the season for end-of-year acquisitions to be announced, now that everyone’s back at work. Hopkinton, MA-based VelQuest, a maker of pharmaceutical and medical device-related software, has been acquired by San Diego-based... Read more »

• Editor’s Picks: Xconomy Boston’s Top 20ish Stories of 2011

  ‘Tis the season to reflect on the past year and take a look at some of Xconomy Boston’s top stories.

  As usual, these aren’t necessarily the highest-traffic stories (though in some cases they... Read more »

• TripAdvisor Post-IPO: Five Things We Learned From CEO Stephen Kaufer

  Merry Christmas, Boston. You asked for it, and you got it. A big, publicly traded consumer tech company to put us on the map alongside the Silicon Valley bad boys and uppity... Read more »

• Report: Amazon Opening Boston-Area Office

  I guess Werner Vogels changed his mind. Amazon.com’s chief technology officer told me a couple years ago that his company had no intention of opening a Boston office. MIT engineers, he said, had... Read more »

• Akamai to Buy Cotendo for $268M

  Some big acquisition news before the holidays here. Cambridge, MA-based Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the Web delivery and networking giant, said today it is acquiring a competitor, Sunnyvale, CA-based Cotendo, for... Read more »

• How Not to Name a Startup: The Curse of the Camel Case

  What’s in a tech startup name? More specifically, is there a correlation between the type of name a company has and its success?

  That’s a question every startup founder and investor should be interested in. Because... Read more »

• Cyber-Ark Closes $40M, Looks to Go Big in Security

  Strange name. Big money. Newton, MA-based Cyber-Ark Software said today it has raised $40 million in investment led by Goldman Sachs and Jerusalem Venture Partners. The deal includes the purchase of... Read more »

• TripAdvisor Going Public and Independent; Boston Tech Scene Yawns

  It’s probably the quietest Boston-area public offering of the year. But why? Maybe because it’s a spinoff from an already public company, and the deal was announced back in April. Or... Read more »

• Skyword Scores $6M to Blend Media and Marketing

  Boston-based Skyword is moving up in the world. The startup, which makes a software platform for brands to create Web content, said today it has closed $6 million in financing from Cox... Read more »

• Biofuels Firm Coskata, Backed by Boston VCs, Files for IPO

  Here’s another data point for New England cleantech investors. Coskata, a Warrenville, IL-based developer of cellulosic ethanol, has filed paperwork for an initial public offering. The proposed maximum offering is $100... Read more »

• Hacker’s Putty, Soggy Doggy, & Other Gift Ideas from Daily Grommet

  Holiday shopping season is a fun time of year for a company like Daily Grommet. The Lexington, MA-based Web startup finds unusual consumer products and tells a story about one such “grommet” each day... Read more »

• IBM Eats Up Emptoris, 20th Acquisition in MA Since 2003

  News flash: Another Massachusetts software company is joining Big Blue. Armonk, NY-based IBM (NYSE: IBM) said today it is acquiring Emptoris, a Burlington, MA-based maker of supply and contract management software.... Read more »