11May
11May
OmniLife Receives $250,000 SBIR Grant in Support of Transplants for Kids project
OmniLife, a health technology communication and collaboration platform, and collaborators Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Starzl Network have been awarded a $250,000 SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) will support the “Transplants for Kids” project, which will use AI / machine learning algorithms to align optimal donor grafts with children awaiting liver transplants. Previous work completed by members of the Starzl Network and...
11May
#ThinkBeforeYouClick: Wasabi’s IT Hero Nate Returns to Warn About the Dangers of Ransomware
Ransomware can be lurking anywhere. Education is the best defense against attacks. But when that fails, there’s always Wasabi. Don’t let the cybercriminals win. With cybercriminals extorting millions of dollars from organizations every year, ransomware is not going away any time soon. Protect yourself with proven security best practices, including regular ransomware awareness training and a robust backup and recovery strategy with immutable cloud storage. Click happens. But you don’t have to lose your data over it.
10May
INVEST Pitch Perfect winner: myBiometry aims to prevent asthma attacks long before they happen
Nationwide, more than 25 million people have asthma, including about 20 million adults and 5.1 million children and adolescents. If not well-controlled, the chronic condition can cause airways to swell and narrow, making it hard to breathe. This is called an asthma attack, and in a single year, more than 10 million people have one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resulting in 1.6 million emergency room visits and over 3,500 deaths. Now a Boston-based startup, myBiometry, is...
05May
Pixability Adds Two Key Industry Executives to its Advisory Board
Pixability (www.pixability.com), the only provider of software and insights for video advertising on YouTube and other leading Connected TV platforms, today announced that it will be adding two key executives to its advisory board. The advisory board includes some of the most respected leaders in the industry, representing agency holding companies, independent agencies and brands, and key ad technology luminaries. The additions to the board come after two straight years of record revenue growth and profitability driven by innovations in...
30Apr
Legally blind Leafs’ fan sees Friday’s game with eSight4 glasses
Eric MacDonald, 78, a father of four from Halifax was in town to watch his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs play the Boston Bruins with his grandson Mathew Smith. MacDonald has COPD and suffers from diminished vision. A charity "We Are Young" heard about his predicament and partnered with eSight to grant his wish to attend a Leafs game with an eSight 4 device - a high-def, high-speed camera, two OLED screens allowing him to actually see it. in Toronto on...
26Apr
David Zamarin Named Young Entrepreneur of the Year
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has named David Zamarin the 2022 Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Massachusetts and New England. DetraPel is an advanced materials company that manufactures protective coatings without any cancer-causing fluorochemicals. DetraPel offers revolutionary cleaners and disinfectants along with stain removers. All products are researched, developed, designed, manufactured, and distributed to retailers, industrial partners, and direct to consumers from DetraPel’s facility in Framingham, MA. Appearing on season 9 of ABC’s Shark Tank in 2017, Zamarin...
22Apr
Wasabi Technologies Partners with Signiant to Deliver Mission-Critical Infrastructure to Media and Entertainment Industry
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, has capped off tremendous momentum in the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry with a new technology alliance partnership with Signiant, the market leader in intelligent file transfer software, to enable accelerated transfer of media assets and associated metadata from customer locations into and out of Wasabi hot cloud storage. By leveraging the power of Wasabi hot cloud storage and Signiant intelligent file transfer, joint users can rapidly ingest content files of any size...
22Apr
ZetrOZ Meets Demand for sam® Wearable Ultrasound Soft Tissue Healing Device With Process Assessment and U.S. Manufacturing
As businesses return to normal operations with much more limited staffing, they can also expect to see workplace injuries increase, requiring employees to get specialized medical treatments or devices - which may be delayed or unavailable due to peaking supply chain logjams and regulatory challenges. ZetrOZ Systems, makers of the sustained acoustic medicine sam® device, is prepared to meet patients' needs through careful advanced planning and multi-site U.S. manufacturing. ZetrOZ's sam® is the only FDA-cleared, long-duration, home-use, ultrasound device to...
21Apr