Fortune magazine release it’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Sure, we expected Google (No. 1) and Starbucks (No. 7) to be on the list. Who wouldn’t like crazy benefits like free meals, free coffee, and Segway’s as status symbols? They are legendary brands after all. But the Container Store (No. [...]
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It seems to be the week for news about LifeSize. Today the company announced record sales for the fourth quater and 2007 total. Annual sales reportedly tripled year over year. No actual numbers were announced, which is not surprising since LifeSize is a private company. According to Dun & Bradstreet, the company’s revenues are estimated [...]
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Ascension Orthopedics started in Austin back in 1996 by two doctors who were pioneering the field of carbon implants. In 2001 the company received FDA approval on their first product, a total joint replacement for the knuckle. The current product line includes implants for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, and toes. Today the company announced [...]
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Austin-based Itzbig, a recruiting technology company run by industry veterans Hank Stringer and Jim Hammock, is making good progress on their Bay Area expansion. When Jim McGovern came on as CEO, one of his strategic tasks was to expand the company beyond Central Texas into key technology markets like the Silicon Valley. The company seems to have [...]
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LifeSize announced it’s PlanetWise initiative today, an environmental initiative to promote green technologies. They also announced their partnership with The Climate Group. As part of the green program, LifeSize conducted an internal audit of company operations to measure their carbon footprint. “LifeSize is dedicated to being an environmentally friendly company, and our commitment starts with [...]
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SolarWinds announced the newest version of their ipMonitor software today. The new version has a large variety of new features that are intended to make it more attractive to the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. New features include SmartMonitor technology, networking mapping capability, and out-of-the-box support for Active Directory, Exchange, MS SQL Server, FTP, [...]
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Thoof, the personalized news site founded by Revver founder Ian Clarke and backed by AV, and which we covered here in a Q&A Wednesday , is rumored to be for sale, according to Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOm in a piece published on Thursday. Stacey did some investigative reporting, and has found that Alan Ren, [...]
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On Friday afternoon, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial released data showing that venture funding across the US was up, with 963 companies raising over $7 billion in the fourth quarter. Most interestingly, out of the top 10 deals in 2007, only 3 were in California (local company Heliovolt raised either [...]
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Our friends over at SXSWi announced that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, will deliver the keynote presentation on Sunday, March 9th at 2pm. Mark is one of the luckier guys in the world, and he’s been hitting the speaking circuit lately, appearing recently on 60 Minutes to try to explain the whole Beacon thing. The [...]
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NetStreams Inc., an Austin-based company focused on distributing high definition video and audio over standard IP networks, has raised $18 million from Austin Ventures in a Series B financing. Austin Ventures also funded the Series A found.
The Company claims that its DigiLinX™ IP Audio, Video and Control system is the first distributed A/V system [...]
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