06May
05May
Friend & Flowers Return With Wasabi, Take on Amazon in “Hot Storage”
In the market for cloud storage and related tech services, there is Amazon—and then there’s everybody else. The Seattle-based company’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Web Services business generated $12.2 billion in sales last year, and it controls an estimated 33 percent of the global market for cloud infrastructure services, according to a recent analysis by Synergy Research Group. But that isn’t deterring Wasabi Technologies, a new Boston data-storage startup, from entering the fray. And the 18-person upstart is taking direct swipes at Amazon...
05May
Carbonite founders’ new startup aims directly at Amazon Web Services
Nearly a year after Carbonite Inc. co-founders David Friend and Jeffrey Flowers first raised money for a stealthy new cloud storage startup called BlueArchive Inc., the duo is publicly launching their company with a new name and an ambitious plan to undercut the fastest-growing segment of Amazon.com Inc.'s business. Now called Wasabi, the startup is offering to store large amounts of data at a fraction the price of Amazon Web Services' S3 offering — the flagship product of a cloud computing...
05May
How to size up a new cloud service like low-priced Wasabi
Saving money may be a good enough reason to try a brand-new cloud storage service -- if it can deliver on its promises. That's the equation some enterprises may use when they look at Wasabi Technologies, an object storage startup that says it offers six times the performance of Amazon's S3 service at one-fifth the price. The service is available globally on Wednesday. Read more >>
05May
High-tech glasses bring high hopes
The headset Airey wore was created by eSight eyewear, a Canadian company started by Conrad Lewis, an engineer with two legally blind sisters. Airey's was the third prototype created by eSight. Read more >>
03May
Biopharma company TetraGenetics grabs funding
JDRF T1D Fund has made an undisclosed investment in TetraGenetics. Based in Arlington, Massachusetts, TetraGenetics is a biopharmaceutical company developing new treatments for autoimmune diseases. Read more >>
02May
The pink powder that could revolutionize aquaculture
Biotech startup KnipBio is scaling up production of a single-cell organism as a sustainable aquaculture feed ingredient. Read more >>
01May
15 years later, a blind man sees his wedding thanks to eSight and KBS
Andrew Airey’s recollections of his wedding day are blurry. So assistive technology company eSight and agency KBS let him experience it again on Facebook Live this weekend. Read more >>
01May
Myomo pioneering an IPO that includes small investors
You might consider it a “people’s IPO.” If the medical robotics company Myomo Inc. goes public this month, as planned, it would be among the first initial public offerings by small companies on a major stock exchange funded not just by institutions but also by small investors, who are typically locked out of such transactions. Read more >>
29Apr