AustinStartup

We reported back in January that we heard Pluck was for sale. Today it’s being reported that Demand Media, run by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, is acquiring the company for between $50M and $60M. Pretty good for a company with about $10M in 2007 revenue. Mashable has good coverage of the news with Rosenblatt and [...]

Zales and Gordon’s Jewelers joined the long list of top e-commerce websites that utilize Bazaarvoice’s ratings and reviews technology. That little jewelry store in the mall is a $2.1B per year business that has 2,200 retail outlets. Bazaarvoice’s advanced word-of-mouth analytics tools allow Zales to tune into this archive of customer opinions in order to [...]

Austin-based SolarWinds, which makes network management and monitoring software, has been shoring up the board of directors lately. John Thornton of Austin Ventures was added in February, and Salesforce.com CFO Steven Cakebread was announced as another board addition in early February. It’s a pretty odd move for a private company. Unless of course you need [...]