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March New Tech Meetup – Boulder

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:49:38 +0000

New Tech Meetup in Boulder began with a discussion of the possibility of bringing Google’s pilot fiber network to Boulder. The City of Boulder plans to submit the required technical and factual information required in the RFI but community interest and submissions also represent an important piece of the response. Those interested in [...]

Graphic.ly Acquires iFanboy

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:20:55 +0000

Graphic.ly announced its acquisition of iFanboy today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Graphic.ly, a 2009 Boulder TechStars alum now headed by Micah Baldwin, seeks to create the iTunes of digital comics including a store to purchase comics and related materials, digital delivery optimized for reading on a computer or mobile [...]

February New Tech Meetup – Boulder

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:51:03 +0000

The Boulder edition of New Tech Meetup got off to an entertaining start featuring a fireside discussion between Robert Reich and Jason Calacanis who was in town for the first Boulder Open Angel Forum. Calacanis started the Open Angel Forum in response to Angel groups that charge companies to present, a practice he is [...]

Red Door Panel Discusses Social Media and the Customer Lifecycle

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:15:32 +0000

Red Door Interactive convened its first panel of 2010 to discuss the use of social media to accelerate the customer lifecycle. Moderator Scott Esmond of Red Door prompted the panel discuss the impact of social media at each stage of the customer lifecycle: acquisition, conversion, and retention/loyalty. The panelists at the event were: Tony Felice: Red [...]

NewsGator Acquires Tomoye

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:36:45 +0000

NewsGator announced that it has acquired Tomoye, which provides a community and social platform for organization’s using SharePoint. Along with its product offering, Tomoye brings a strong presence in the government sector including the social community for the US Army with over 150,000 users. NewsGator, whose previous customer base was concentrated in the [...]

January New Tech Meetup – Denver

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:43:37 +0000

New Tech Meetup held its Denver edition last night and featured two new company presentations along with Matt Emmi (new gadgets) and Su Hawk (potential changes to CO software tax law), who revisited their presentations from the Boulder meeting. ProVault allows individuals going through a divorce to prepare their sworn financial disclosure online, a process [...]

OneRiot Launches RiotWise Real-Time Ad Network

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:34:03 +0000

Today, OneRiot announced the broad availability of RiotWise, an ad network for the real-time web. The network can provide contextually relevant ads to real-time applications, clients and search engines. Developers have flexibility in displaying the ads from traditional banner displays to integration into the real-time stream. Based on its pilot, OneRiot reports [...]

January New Tech Meetup – Boulder

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:57:11 +0000

New Tech Meetup kicked of the year to a full house and a full slate of presenters. First up was Lorenzo Carver presenting Liquid Scenarios, which makes it easy to calculate the value of illiquid assets such as stock in a private company. According to Carver where the product really excels is when [...]

Filtrbox Acquired by Jive Software

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:21 +0000

Filtrbox announced that it has been acquired by Jive Software. Both companies are venture backed and play heavily in the social media space. Filtrbox allows users to set up “filtrs” for specific words to monitor mentions on both traditional and social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook. Jive expects to integrate Filtrbox [...]

Rally Software Scores $16M Funding Round

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:03:47 +0000

Rally Software announced that it has secured a $16M round of funding led by Greylock Partners. Rally is a leader in Agile application lifecycle management, providing products and services that facilitate software development using the Agile method. The new funds will allow for accelerated hiring of engineers. Rally has continued on a [...]