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Editor’s Note: In this piece by Carlos Urreta, guest columnist and techie from Austin, Texas, Urreta reveals loopholes to securing the cheapest cell phone deal a user is likely to …

GameSalad Inc., an Austin and Los Angeles-based firm specializing in game creation for the Web, iPhone, iPad and Mac without the use of coding announced that the company has released …

While e-readers may contain thousands of volumes of books on a single, portable device and allows users to download new titles wirelessly from wherever they are, to many it feels …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

HOUSTON, Texas-The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is prepping equipment to jam wireless cell phones signals at facilities following the escape of an inmate from a maximum-security prison in …

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 …

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, 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-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 …

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 …