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AUSTIN, Texas-The City of Austin announced that eBay Inc. would increase its Austin office by 1,000 jobs during the next 10 years if city representatives approve an economic incentive proposal …

Vancouver Sun | March 30, 2011 | Mike Swift AUSTIN, Texas – As Facebook evolves from insular Silicon Valley start-up to a global company with a necklace of offices around the …

AUSTIN, Texas–There was little carrier exposure in terms of physical presence at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin this year, which is largely a shame due to all the opportunities …

AUSTIN, Texas-Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products at Google, gave a keynote on Google Maps at South by Southwest (SXSW) on the first day of the Interactive Festival, March 11. …

AUSTIN, Texas-Thirty-two hungry entrepreneurs showed off their products and services at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival. The …

AUSTIN, Texas-Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale) and Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced this week that the catastrophic earthquake in Japan has disrupted manufacturing operations for both companies, which have facilities …

AUSTIN, Texas – Thirty-two hungry entrepreneurs showed off their products and services at the SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft Corp. BizSpark on March 14 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive …

AUSTIN, Texas – Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said he will introduce antitrust legislation to curb the influence of telecommunications lobbyists, but that effort will ultimately fail without the support of …

AUSTIN, Texas – Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said he will introduce antitrust legislation to curb the influence of telecommunications lobbyists, but that effort will ultimately fail without the support of …

An unfortunate side effect of a “cool” conference like SXSW is you find a lot of people who truly, deeply believe that they themselves, personally, are changing the world for the better. It’s somewhat sweet, somewhat cheesy, and very, very naïve.

You can’t talk about mobile gaming without talking about Angry Birds, which is why Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle of Rovio Mobile joined RCR Wireless on an exclusive panel this afternoon in the news desk at the Alcatel-Lucent suite at SXSW.

AUSTIN, Texas-Marissa Mayer, VP of consumer products at Google, gave a keynote on Google Maps at South by Southwest (SXSW) on the first day of the Interactive Festival, March 11. …

Today’s highlights ran the gamut from payment apps to digital wallets, location-based services, and social gaming, to mobile apps for social good.

“This is a mass market thing – if you have 60 million people playing the game, it’s not just geeks anymore,” said Brian Reynolds, founder of Zynga in a keynote at SXSW today. The gaming company responsible for Facebook games like Farmville and Mafia Wars has turned playing video games into a social phenomena – not a private pastime but rather, a hobby to be shared and celebrated.

Remember SXSW 2010, when check-in services such as FourSquare, Gowalla and BrightKite were hitting the big time? Austin was awash with people walking into closed doors as they stared intensely at their handsets, making sure they registered that all-important Starbucks check-in.

AUSTIN, Texas-Appconomy, a local startup app developer, unveiled the company’s first app, barely preceding the start of South by Southwest (SXSW) on March 11. The app is named “Grouped{in}” and …

AUSTIN, Texas-Downtown Austin is likely to blossom fruit this week in the form of Apple Inc. Several local news agencies are reporting that Apple will open a temporary store in …

AUSTIN-Some argue that there is little to a name, but if any of those people work in the world of the Web, they are very wrong. For companies that use …

AUSTIN-Mike Tyson, former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, will visit the SXSW Interactive Festival from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 13 at the ScreenBurn Arcade located …

AUSTIN, Texas—South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival officials have confirmed that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is expected to speak at 9:30 a.m., Monday, March 14, at the Town Lake ballroom …

AUSTIN-Samsung Electronics will host a series of free, interactive, full-day bada platform code camps in Austin, Texas; Atlanta; Boston; Denver and Vancouver, B.C., Canada, to cover the basics of the …

PLANO, Texas— Dell Services recently announced a line of six new services and solutions that are designed to aid enterprise customers achieve benefits of mobile collaboration, computing and communications-enhanced business …