| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.10.2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2 is a big hit on social media | Red Dead Redemption 2 fans posted 1.13 million posts on social media during the days surrounding the game’s October 26 launch, according to consumer trends and insights firm Crimson Hexagon.
From October 21 to October 28, Crimson Hexagon sa... |
| 30.10.2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2 is a big hit on social media | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Red Dead Redemption 2 fans posted 1.13 million posts on social media during the days surrounding the game’s October 26 launch, accordin... |
| 30.10.2018 | Twitter’s doubling of character count from 140 to 280 had little impact on length of tweets | Twitter’s decision to double its character count from 140 to 280 characters last year hasn’t dramatically changed the length of Twitter posts. According to new data released by the company this morning, Twitter is still a place for briefer ... |
| 22.08.2018 | Boston Tech Watch: Actifio, DraftKings, WaveSense, BabelBark & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 8/23/18, 9:05 am. See below.] Time to catch up on recent news from the Boston-area tech sector:
—We’ve got more details on Actifio’s recently announced $100 million f... |
| 16.08.2018 | Analytics firm Crimson Hexagon regains Facebook access following scrutiny over government contracts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nearly a month after Facebook suspended Crimson Hexagon following a high-profile Wall Street Journal story scrutinizing its contracts w... |
| 16.08.2018 | Crimson Hexagon regains Facebook data access | Analytics company Crimson Hexagon says Facebook has reinstated its data access to Facebook and Instagram.
That access was suspended last month, with Facebook saying it was investigating whether the company had violated any of its data use p... |
| 16.08.2018 | Analytics firm Crimson Hexagon regains Facebook access following scrutiny over government contracts | Nearly a month after Facebook suspended Crimson Hexagon following a high-profile Wall Street Journal story scrutinizing its contracts with government agencies, the Boston-based data analytics firm has stated that its access to Instagram and... |
| 27.07.2018 | Boston Tech Watch: SessionM, Salesforce, Facebook, Squadle & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s time to catch up on a flurry of recent Boston-area tech headlines:
—SessionM, a seller of marketing automation and customer loyalty software, said it grabbed $23.8 millio... |
| 23.07.2018 | Crimson Hexagon: The Next Cambridge Analytica? | Facebook hasn’t had the best year so far in 2018, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposing rampant misuse of user data and voter manipulation on both sides of the Atlantic. While investigations are still on-going, Cambridge Analytica h... |
| 20.07.2018 | Facebook suspends analytics firm over data usage | NEW YORK - Facebook says it has suspended Boston-based analytics firm Crimson Hexagon while it investigates how it collects and shares Facebook and Instagram's user data.
Facebook has been facing increased scrutiny over how third-party firm... |
| 20.07.2018 | Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid investigation into data usage | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook is scrutinizing a Boston-based analytics firm over its contracts with government agencies, the Wall Street Journal reported on... |
| 20.07.2018 | Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid investigation into data usage | Facebook is scrutinizing a Boston-based analytics firm over its contracts with government agencies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Apps from the firm, Crimson Hexagon, have been suspended from Facebook and Instagram while Faceb... |
| 20.06.2018 | Crimson Hexagon’s AI consumer insights platform powers GM’s customer care | For General Motors, which sells about 10 million cars a year in dozens of countries, keeping a finger on the digital discourse isn’t always easy. The challenge is how to reach a global community of car owners across countless social media c... |
| 20.06.2018 | Crimson Hexagon’s AI consumer insights platform powers GM’s customer care | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For General Motors, which sells about 10 million cars a year in dozens of countries, keeping a finger on the digital discourse isn’t al... |
| 03.01.2018 | Why Twitter won’t remove Trump’s nuclear tweet | Trump’s tweet raising the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea isn’t in violation of Twitter’s guidelines, the company says, and will remain online. In the tweet, Trump boasted that his “Nuclear Button” is “much bigger” and “more powerf... |
| 07.11.2017 | Twitter officially expands its character count to 280 starting today | Twitter’s expansion to 280 characters is rolling out publicly today to all users in supported languages, including English. The company had first announced the controversial plan to move beyond its traditional 140 characters back in Septemb... |
| 08.03.2016 | Crimson Hexagon Raises $20M in Equity Financing | Crimson Hexagon, a Boston, MA-based provider of social data analysis to inform strategic enterprise decision-making, raised $20m in growth equity financing.
The round was led by Sageview Capital.
The company, which had raised $17.5m in fund... |
| 08.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 8, 2016 | Crimson Hexagon raised $20M; Spotinst secured $2M; Fullcube closed a $1.15M Seed funding
Fullcube, provider of a subscription management platform, closed $1.15 million in seed funding from angel investors. We’ve reached out to the company t... |
| 08.03.2016 | Crimson Hexagon Gets $20M to Speed up Its Growth in 'Social Intelligence' | An early entrant in the field of social media analytics appears to be hitting its stride nearly a decade into its existence. Boston-based Crimson Hexagon announced a $20 million round—after raising just $17.5 million in total previously—tha... |
| 07.03.2016 | New Money: Inmoji Lands $5M Series A, Golden Seeds Leads $2M Round for Constant Therapy | Get a daily dose of Boston startup funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. New Money is BostInno's report on all the tech funding deals this week. Check back for updates.
Inmoji (Boston and San Francisco)
Amount: $5 million Series A
Investo... |
| 07.03.2016 | Social media analytics service Crimson Hexagon raises $20M | Crimson Hexagon is announcing that it has raised $20 million in additional equity funding.
Founded in 2007, the Boston-headquartered company helps brands and ad agencies track conversations across social media. It says its customer base has... |
| 12.01.2016 | 10 text, sentiment, and social analytics trends for 2016 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Text, sentiment, and social analytics help you tune in, at scale, to the voice of the customer, patient, public, and market. The techno... |
| 12.01.2016 | 10 text, sentiment, and social analytics trends for 2016 | Text, sentiment, and social analytics help you tune in, at scale, to the voice of the customer, patient, public, and market. The technologies are currently being applied in an array of industries ranging from healthcare to finance, media, a... |
| 18.02.2015 | Social platform Wayin adds a search engine to better sift those valuable posts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You may think of your opinionated tweets and post... |
| 18.02.2015 | Social platform Wayin adds a search engine to better sift those valuable posts | You may think of your opinionated tweets and posts as just so much talking. But brands are engaged in a war of tools to better find and use what you and millions of your fellow social media-ites are saying about them and their products.
Tod... |
| 21.10.2014 | Crimson Hexagon opens new European headquarters and joins vibrant innovation community on London's South Bank | - Social media data analytics leader moves into new offices on banks of the River Thames -
London, UK - 21 October 2014 - Crimson Hexagon, the social media analytics software company, has opened its new European headquarters on London's Sou... |
| 08.11.2013 | Banana Republic, CNNMoney And CNBC Among Top Twitter Accounts During TWTR IPO | Data from social media analytics companies Crimson Hexagon and Topsy give insight into the chatter during Twitter’s IPO using data gleaned from (what else?) tweets. Most of the accounts that produced the top tweets are expected (like Twitte... |
| 20.12.2012 | Why Twitter Buzz ≠ Movie Ticket Sales | Most film studios operate under the assumption that the more buzz and positive sentiment a movie has on Twitter, the better the movie will perform at the box office. It ain’t necessarily so…
Instead, it’s quality over quantity. Or maybe, in... |
| 08.09.2012 | 5 scintillating stories we missed this week | To say it was a busy week in technology and gadget news is a bit of an understatement.
The four-day work week was jam-packed with a smattering of smartphone, e-reader, and tablet press events and revelations. If that wasn’t enough, Y Combin... |
| 29.08.2012 | Twitter Launches “Twitter Certified Products” — Partners With DataSift, Gnip, HootSuite & Others | Twitter just launched its “Certified Products Program” to highlight “the best products and services to thrive on Twitter.” The program is meant to help companies find “the best tools to engage with their customers” and “understand what peop... |
| 11.01.2012 | If Twitter Had Its Own Primary, Ron Paul Would Be Winning | The Republican Primaries are underway, with two states already in the rearview mirror. The second primary, New Hampshire, wrapped up last night. Mitt Romney took home the most votes from New Hampshire voters, winning just about every county... |
| 10.11.2011 | Austin-based Mass Relevance partners with Twitter | Twitter wants to harness the power of TV to encourage people to log on to the micro-blogging site.
To that end, it struck up a partnership with Austin-based Mass Relevance today. Mass Relevance created a content curation system for an estim... |
| 07.11.2011 | New partnerships make Twitter more valuable for media companies | Twitter has granted access of the more than 250 million tweets sent daily to two firms — Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon, the company announced Monday. The firms will now be able to work directly on creating and maintaining partnerships ... |
| 07.11.2011 | Twitter Names Mass Relevance, Crimson Hexagon As Curation Partners | Twitter today announced formal partnerships with Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon to allow the two companies to repurpose tweets for use on websites, television shows, jumbotrons and more. Mass Relevance helps clients curate the Twitter f... |
| 07.11.2011 | New partnerships make Twitter more valuable for media companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter has granted access of the more than 250 m... |
| 27.05.2011 | Funding roundup - week ending 05/27/11 | The king of funding this week has to be social gaming stalwart Kabam, with an $85 million Series D
Seed-stage
Unsocial, a mobile app for connecting with new people at business events like conferences and tradeshows, secured an undisclosed r... |
| 24.05.2011 | Crimson Hexagon Secures $5M in Series B Funding | Crimson Hexagon, a Cambridge, MA-based social intelligence company, has secured $5m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Charles F. Dolan, founder and chairman of Cablevision Systems Corporation.
The company intends to use the funding ... |
| 24.05.2011 | What you need to know - 05/24/11 | Twitter might have closed $40 million purchase of TweetDeck; Lady Gaga album struggles on Amazon
Among many promotions for Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, Amazon was offering the album for just $0.99--but its servers couldn't handle t... |
| 12.01.2011 | Twitter stats show Kindle dominates ereader market, Nook catching up, Kobo not counted | Article content
Fast Company has reported some interesting stats from a study analyzing Twitter commentary around three ereaders. Or at least two ereaders, Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Nobles’ Nooks and one tab, Apple iPad, which is a t... |
| 08.10.2010 | Twitter Users On AT&T Foaming At The Mouth In The Hopes Of A Verizon iPhone | Okay, now that it seems to be established that the iPhone is coming to Verizon next year, the next question is: just how many people will make the jump from AT&T to the new network? Last month, we reported on a survey by market research... |
| 05.04.2010 | Crimson Hexagon Raises $2M | Crimson Hexagon, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of real time market research to agencies, brand, media firms and their partners, has completed a $2m Series A-2 funding round.
The round, led by Golden Seeds, was completed through a combinati... |
| 28.02.2010 | How We Hate NBC's Olympics Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown | The coverage of the Winter Olympics on NBC has been painful to watch. In addition to the tape delays which ruined the outcomes for anyone paying attention to any other news, sports or social media outlet other than NBC, there are a lot of o... |
| 17.06.2009 | And the Winner Is…New England Innovation, at the MITX Technology Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, an organization of 7,500 New England professionals in the Internet and digital marketing and advertising fields, handed o... |
| 14.10.2008 | Harvard Spins Off Brand Monitoring Startup Crimson Hexagon | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has been grabbing headlines this week. On Sunday, it went public with news about a Beverly, MA-based spinoff called SiOnyx that hope... |
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