AustinStartup

The weekly paper in Lexington Kentucky ran an interesting story by Bill Bishop. Bill is co-author of a book named The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing us Apart. The article tells the story about the beginnings of IBM in Austin, and how the split up the typewriter division in Lexington [...]

FiveRuns, the application monitoring and systems management company for Ruby on Rails, today released the public beta for FiveRuns TuneUp, a free, socially networked application profiling tool for Ruby on Rails developers that provides rapid application performance analysis in development. The company also announced general availability of FiveRuns Manage 2.0, the subscription-based application performance management [...]

JP Morgan JMP Securities recently published their list of the “Best Privately Held Software Companies.” I’m sure they have criteria for what they mean by “best.” As we searched, we found several Austin-based companies.

Bazaarvoice
CoreMetrics
NetQoS
ReachForce
Solarwinds
Zilliant

Yes, we know that technically CoreMetrics is headquartered in the valley, but they started here and still have major operations here. Six out [...]

You can find the story here. It’s a great article about Stewart Friedman’s recent visit to Austin, his seminar at Bazaarvoice, and how leadership training is changing to serve the whole person. A pre-release copy of the book has proven to be an amazing read. You can pre-order a copy on Amazon.

Yodlee, Inc., and Q2 Software, Inc. today announced a partnership to enhance Q2’s electronic banking platform with personal financial management and bill pay capabilities from Yodlee. The integrated Yodlee PersonalFinance and Yodlee BillPay components will be available for all Q2 customers as value-added features for the Q2 online banking experience.
“Q2 Software is helping to set [...]

Uplogix, a provider of secure remote management (SRM) solutions, today announced the award of a five-year General Services Administration (GSA) contract. Uplogix’ inclusion on the GSA schedule is enabled by an agreement with government contractor EC America enabling federal agencies to purchase and deploy Uplogix remote management solutions from authorized Uplogix Government Channel Partners.
“With demands [...]

There’s never any news when a holiday falls on a Monday. So here’s some links to interesting posts in the blogosphere over the weekend.

On TechCrunch, Michael Arrington creates a post name Twitter with no content. Perhaps to symbolize Arrington’s growing frustration with Twitter’s frequent downtime. The post has 400 comments so far.
Over at GigaOm, Om [...]

Fluid Innovation has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Intellectual Property, 2008″ report by Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact [...]

ShangBy.com, an online retailer that takes consumers into the far away shops of Shanghai to find unique and customizable jewelry, is expanding into the Shanghai cashmere and pashmina market. ShangBy.com now brings users live via video feed on the Internet into Woo Scarf and Shawl, an established cashmere retailer in Shanghai that is famous with [...]

Versata Enterprises, Inc. (Versata), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions, announces today the acquisition of privately held Evolutionary Technologies International, Inc. (ETI), a recognized innovator of data integration products.
Versata will operate ETI within its Business Automation Business Unit. ETI joins Versata’s growing family of enterprise software companies, including Versata Software, Inc., Versata, Inc., Artemis [...]