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1. Broadbrand program to woo companies to western Mass Explore masshightech.com (Apr 26 2012) Information Technology Some companies including Hitpoint Studios Inc. in Hatfield already have. “I grew Hitpoint because I had local resources,” said Aaron St. John, co-founder of Hitpoint, during a recent panel discussion. “There’s no reason we can’t get the 400-person company in western Mass.” (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Massachusetts Technology Collaborative   Springfield   Northampton

2. Fiksu expands with Northampton office Explore masshightech.com (Mar 27 2012) Information Technology “We found people here [in Northampton] that we were unable to hire in Boston. We need to hire people where they are rather than where we are,” Mark Corner, vice president of engineering at Fiksu, told Mass High Tech. Corner, who will run the new office, is a recognized authority on mobile and pervasive computing and an associate professor on extended leave from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the company said. He added, “There is a nice synergy with all the universities in western Massachusetts. There are five different academic institutions here.” (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Amherst College   Amherst

3. High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke offers glimpse at construction of $165 million facility Explore masslive.com (Mar 26 2012) Information Technology Tour guides were John T. Goodhue, executive director of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Claire Christopherson, center director of administration and finance, and Van Duros, construction manager with Turner Construction Co., of New York, N.Y., which is building the 90,000-square-foot center between Cabot and Appleton streets. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Holyoke   The Republican

4. 'Geek Gathering' event planned to give Pioneer Valley techies some face-to-face networking time Explore masslive.com (Mar 25 2012) Entrepreneurship , Information Technology They’ve invited entrepreneurs behind the small, but fast-growing, computer and information-technology companies from around the Pioneer Valley as well as college students majoring in computer science and related fields and counselors from college career offices. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Big Y Foods   Springfield College

5. Hampshire College conference focuses on importance of videogame, digital animation business to Western Massachusetts Explore masslive.com (Mar 15 2012) Information Technology Anzovin was one of the panelists Thursday at “Digital Games: Playing in the Valley”, an afternoon-long symposium at Hampshire College aimed at fostering the Pioneer Valley’s videogame and digital animation industry. The event was sponsored by Hampshire college, the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council and MassDiGI, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Hampshire College   Amherst   Northampton

6. Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council hosts Hampshire College discussion of the Valley and video gaming industry Explore masslive.com (Mar 12 2012) Information Technology The Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts, along with Hampshire College and the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI), will host “Digital Games: Playing in the Valley,” a symposium on Friday featuring leaders from the video game industry, academia and government discussing games, entrepreneurship, education and economic development. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Hampshire College   Amherst   The Republican

7. Holyoke ceremony will mark some of the final exterior work on $165 million high performance computing center Explore masslive.com (Mar 9 2012) Information Technology The partners are the University of Massachusetts, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Northeastern University, EMC Corp., of Hopkinton, an information storage, back-up and recovery firm, and Cisco Systems Inc., a California-based internet network equipment maker. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke

8. Computer company to bring 30 jobs to former Cahillane dealership in Northampton Explore GazetteNET (Mar 9 2012) Information Technology As many as 30 new jobs will relocate to the city later this year when a computer company moves into the former Cahillane Dodge car dealership on South Street. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   West Springfield   Springfield   Northampton

9. Amherst symposium to focus on video game industry Explore Boston.com (Mar 8 2012) Information Technology Along with Hampshire College and the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts, MassDIGI is a sponsor of the Amherst symposium. Symposium organizers cited figures estimating that the video game sector in Massachusetts generates up to $2 billion in economic activity. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Hampshire College   Amherst

10. Applicants sought for MassMutual Scholars - Career Pathways renewable scholarship program Explore masslive.com (Mar 7 2012) Education , Financial Services , Information Technology MassMutual is offering 40 scholarships worth up to $20,000 each to high-school seniors in Hampden and Hartford counties who plan to study business, financial services or information technology at a local college. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   MassMutual   Springfield   Chicopee

11. "PLAYING IN THE VALLEY" Explore From the EDC (Mar 1 2012) Information Technology The Video Gaming industry is growing in Massachusetts. Video gaming represents a $2 billion dollar industry and employs almost 4,000 people across the state (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Hampshire College

12. Green Earth Computers helps tech world stay eco-friendly Explore masslive.com (Feb 21 2012) Green Region , Information Technology Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill, owner and head technician of Green Earth Computers, is helping the tech world stay eco-friendly. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amherst   The Republican

13. Lightower lines up $380M credit facility Explore masshightech.com (Feb 15 2012) Information Technology Last month Lightower was chosen by the Massachusetts Broadband Institute to supply the MBI’s new rural broadband deployment in western Massachusetts with access to its fiber network to give it access to the Internet. Under the agreement, MBI will lease fiber from Lightower on a separate pair of lines to connect the MassBroadband 123 network to a primary Internet access point in Boston. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Massachusetts Broadband Institute

14. Harvard to Receive High Performance Computing Grants Explore Scientific Computing (Feb 6 2012) Information Technology The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is a ground-breaking collaboration of five of the state’s most research-intensive universities, state government and private industry — the most significant collaboration among government, industry and public and private universities in the history of the Commonwealth, and the first facility in the nation of its kind. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Amherst   Holyoke

15. High-speed Internet on horizon for towns Explore Home - North Adams Transcript (Feb 3 2012) Information Technology MassBroadband 123 received $45.4 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and an additional $26.2 million from the state, and will lay 1,300 miles of fiber-optic cable and over 35,000 utility poles. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Massachusetts Technology Collaborative   Springfield

16. Fledgling Holyoke computer center gives $600000 in grants Explore masshightech.com (Jan 30 2012) Information Technology While it still has yet to have its own home built, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke is already giving out grants, announcing $600,000 seed grants going to seven research teams. The seed grants range from $45,000 to $130,000 each, going to multi-university collaborative teams doing research in areas that high performance computing could have an impact – New England coastal ecology studies to medical imaging, the center said in a release today. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   MassDevelopment   Amherst

17. Springfield-area small businesses urged to develop their own websites as marketing tool Explore masslive.com (Jan 27 2012) Information Technology Garvey Communication Associates and Western New England University on Tuesday hosted a free seminar for small businesses on “Growing and Managing Your Business with Google” in Rivers Memorial Hall at Western New England University. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Western New England University   Springfield   The Republican

18. Faculty innovation earns UMass 13th spot on Association of University of Technology Managers list Explore masslive.com (Jan 26 2012) Education , Information Technology According to the statement, Caret told the Board of Trustees Committee on Science, Technology and Research that the university was able to generate $40 million from faculty discovery and innovation and “is a testament to the great quality of the UMass faculty on all five campuses and also shows that the university is extremely focused on obtaining its fair share of the proceeds when products reach the marketplace." (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Amherst   The Republican

19. A Connection For Growth Explore WBJournal.com (Jan 22 2012) Information Technology In today's global, information-driven economy, high-speed Internet access may be the most important piece of infrastructure. That's why Governor Patrick and Lieutenant Governor Murray have made it a priority to bring broadband to North Central and Western Massachusetts. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   Massachusetts Technology Collaborative   Massachusetts Broadband Institute

20. Lightower to link MassBroadband 123 to the Net Explore masshightech.com (Jan 4 2012) Information Technology Boxborough-based Lightower Fiber Networks LLC has been chosen by the Massachusetts Broadband Institute to supply the MBI's new rural broadband deployment in western Massachusetts with access to its fiber network to give it access to the Internet. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Massachusetts Broadband Institute

21. Estimating Software Helps Fuel Manufacturing Initiatives With Colleges Explore PR Newswire (Dec 8 2011) Information Technology , Manufacturing "Manufacturing initiatives, emerging at an increasing rate, indicate the growing concern to help bring more manufacturing jobs back to America. Without an actively growing job market, the future of U.S. manufacturing could remain on the decline. For more than a decade, manufacturers have also continued to experience a reduced pool of adequately skilled candidates from which to select for hire," states Jay Snow, Marketing Manager at MTI Systems, Inc. "Our manufacturing customers tell us, if colleges could take the initiative to train students on the software used by their manufacturing company, these new employees would be that much further ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Springfield

22. Holyoke Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center completes first stage of construction Explore masslive.com (Nov 29 2011) Information Technology The so-called topping off ceremony is a milestone in the construction of the $168 million technology hub that is to join together five universities and two businesses, but the building is far from complete. It is expected to be another year before the computing center, being constructed at the site of the former Mastex Industries on Bigelow Street, will be finished. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College

23. Springfield Data Center iron workers conduct 'topping out' ceremony Explore masslive.com (Nov 27 2011) Information Technology Construction of the $110-million Springfield Data Center for Information Technology on Elliot Street has created 200 construction jobs, according to the state. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Springfield   The Republican   Technical High School

24. Holyoke computing center contractors to teach project details to vocational students Explore masslive.com (Nov 25 2011) Education , Information Technology Vocational students will learn about the $168 million high performance computing center from the contractors building it. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Northampton

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