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An upstart young Austin company hopes to solve a trillion-dollar problem for the wireless industry with its new multi-hopping technology. Vidur Bhargava, one of three founders of Wibole and PhD …

Spiceworks | April 28, 2011 | Press Release Adams Street Partners and Tenaya Capital Lead Growth Investment Financing Round AUSTIN, Texas – April 28, 2011 – Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced it …

Frisco, Texas-based EmFinders, a company that makes devices for tracking those afflicted by Alzheimers, down syndrome, dementia, or autism, recently announced that AT&T Inc. (T) will connect its EmSeeQ bracelets …

RootMetrics, an independent service that measures and ranks optimal cell coverage in major cities across the United States, published a report this week ranking the best mobile performance in Dallas. …

The Austin metropolitan area added 13,900 jobs in the past year, giving it a spot in the top 10 best performing metro areas, according to information from the Texas Workforce …

Facebook is joining the crowded marketplace of companies offering deals, by launching the appropriately named, “Deals.” The social network will attempt to break into five test markets today and will …

Appconomy, an Austin-based app developer, is also about collaboration and helping companies find each other. The company previously launched a ‘mobile mind map’ for Austin late last year, documenting the …

While the Amazon cloud crash affected big sites such as Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit last week, it hit home at smaller companies across the nation and in Austin and …

In the highest ranking of businesses on the Forbes report of the top 2,000 publicly traded companies worldwide, Dallas-based AT&T Corp. (T) landed at No. 14 and Round Rock-based Dell …

One might think that Austin-based mobile check-in and social networking company GoWalla would be happy that one of their competitors is now gone, but the story is more complicated. Groupon …

If you’ve ever wondered how you would fare as a billionaire running a business empire, you don’t need to wonder any more – there’s an app for that. Danta Entertainment, …

Location-based coupon dealer Scoutmob is now deep in the heart of Texas. The Atlanta-based company announced the addition of Austin to its listing of local mobile deal services along with …

Eon Corp. (EONC), an Austin-based company specializing in wireless telemetry technology, including the likes of advanced meter reading, announced it has settled all lawsuits involved with Raleigh, N.C.-based Sensus USA …

Chipset vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is hiring Android driver development engineers, marking the company’s move into the tablet and smartphone space. The move may be a wise one indeed, …

The Winklevoss twins, along with Divya Narendra, portrayed in the hit film The Social Network as angry men who claim Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social …

Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced a partnership with Japan’s Fuji Electric Systems Company Ltd. to create an insulated-gate bipolar transistor and other offerings for electric cars. Customer feedback will drive …

Austin is in line to grow with AT&T Inc., as the company will lease a 72,000 square feet space for its new mobility technology lab  in the northwest side of …

AUSTIN, Texas-Due to irreparable damages incurred from the recent 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11, officials from Freescale Semiconductor confirmed the closing of its wafer fabrication plant in Sendai, Japan. …

Those who sift through emails from Groupon, LivingSocial, Entertainment.com, Crowdsavings, Restaurant.com and others, now have a new local option to view the best deals in their cities from Austin-based coupon …

AUSTIN, Texas-It’s time to shine the silverware and grab a bib. Launched in 2008, Austin Restaurant Week will run another installment April 10-13, and April 17-20, to celebrate fine dining …

AUSTIN, Texas-Computer kingpin Dell Inc. (DELL) completed a deal to open a new research and development center in Silicon Valley and plans to hire 700 people by the end of …