Digby, a homegrown Austin company and developer of mobile commerce software announced yesterday that it had raised $8 million in a recent round of Series C funding in the wake of announcing the company’s partnership with AT&T Inc. (T) last week.
Investors include Mass.-based Battery...
Telecommunications and infrastructure service solutions provider GENBAND is pushing efforts to attract third-party developers by providing cash awards for the top entries in the company’s 2011 GENFuzion Developers Challenge.
The Frisco-based hardware developer will accept entries until July 15, and offer cash to developers using...
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...
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...
The second-largest computer maker in the world is in the news again, this time with Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) announcing plans to invest $1 billion in cloud data centers to aid customers in the build, validation and architecture 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.
After a lengthy assessment of equipment and infrastructure damage and ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), told staff via an internal memo that has since been published, that the consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services company needs to combat problems with “operational execution,” and that Cisco has...
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 2011 and a total of 1,500 workers through the next ...
DALLAS, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced it will be buying National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. The two firms have signed “a definitive agreement.
The move combines TI...
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 from the city.
Upon final approval by the city council, the...
Apperian Inc., a mobile application management company for enterprise apps, has closed a $9.5 million round of financing from venture capitalists. The Boston-based company's cloud platform enables business to create, deploy and manage applications on Apple Inc.'s iOS and it plans to expand to...
IT spending will reach nearly $3.6 trillion this year, marking at 5.6% increase from $3.4 trillion in 2010, Gartner Inc. projects in its latest study. IT spending growth in telecom will be down however. Telecom is projected to slide from a 5.5% growth rate...
AUSTIN, Texas-Rock Health, a San Francisco-based mobile health and Health 2.0 seed incubator, launched officially at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival last week. The mission of the company is to provide healthcare expertise, development resources and funding to the...
AUSTIN, Texas-This is the first year IBM Corp. has involvement at Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) and the company felt the need to become a part of the festival to work with business and innovation, and of course, provide a ...
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 either the terms “face” or “book” in a name on the...
International Business News | February 2011 | Alex He
China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company.
The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...
International Business News | February 2011 | Alex He
China's Synacast Corporation, or PPLive, the operator the leading online TV service "PPTV", said on Thursday that Japan's Softbank has acquired a 35 percent stake into the company.
The Japanese mobile carrier acquired Synacast's stake for about...
AUSTIN-The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), a research arm of the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, was named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) this week and received a $400,000 grant to fund...
AUSTIN-Everyone is faced with a moment when accused of being dishonest. For instance, have you called in sick to kick off Austin City Limits or recover from your third day of South by Southwest? In an era of increased demand for efficiency, some businesses...
