Hotels.com, a Dallas-based hotel booking service and website, announced the launch of the company’s first mobile apps for the Android and iPhone platforms today.
The new apps offer users the option to look for last minute deals, browse and sort hotels, view and make user...
Austin-based Tabbedout, a company that offers a free mobile payment app for Android and iPhone platforms, released that the company has garnered $5.75 million in a Series A funding coup. New Enterprise Associates was the largest group in the funding with $3.7 million invested....
The McCombs School of Business’s Texas Venture Labs launched its inaugural Venture Week on Wednesday with a conference at the University of Texas that showcased some of the city’s hottest tech start-ups and showed off some entrepreneurial success stories.
The ...
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 candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, says Wibole can...
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 has closed a $25 million financing round with new investors Adams Street Partners and Tenaya Capital...
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 to 911 operators across the country. Financial details of the...
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 to 911 operators across the country. Financial details of the...
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 verdict is in, and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) takes top...
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 Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The ...
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 try to pull users from Groupon and LivingSocial. The five...
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 Central Texas mobile community in terms of companies, investors, media and support...
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 Texas as well. The Amazon.com cloud center in Virginia was...
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 Inc. (DELL) cruised in at No. 182.
AT&T reported sales of $124.3 billion, profits of...
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 Inc. (DELL) cruised in at No. 182.
AT&T reported sales of $124.3 billion, profits of...
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 acquired Pelago, the parent company of local discovery app Whrrl, which is a similar...
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, an Austin-based educational gaming company, launched a release of its game Robot Tycoon for...
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 nine other cities: Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Seattle and Washington...
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 Inc., a global provider of FlexNet-branded, tower-based, smart grid communications networks and water, gas...
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, considering that market research outfit Gartner expects tablet sales to jump from 70 million...
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 networking monolith, were denied more compensation from the company after a...
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 Freescale’s new product line, which will be marketed to the...
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 town, near Parmer Lane and Spectrum Drive.
Officials at AT&T remain quiet...
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 town, near Parmer Lane and Spectrum Drive.
Officials at AT&T remain quiet...
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.
After a lengthy assessment of equipment and infrastructure damage and ...
