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SmarteSoft raised $2M from Daylight Partners and the Central Texas Angel Network, according to recent news reports. Smartesoft’s test automation technologies enable non-technical users to completely develop test suites from scratch. The functional and performance test products are designed for extreme speed of implementation, and do not require any programming or scripting skills. Customers range [...]

The Panel Picker is back! SXSW wants to know who you want to see on a panel at SXSW Interactive in 2009. The folks at the festival are interested in your feedback, although your votes are not binding, and who knows what sort of cool new stuff could happen between now and March! Officially your [...]

The Rackspace (NASDAQ: RAX) IPO priced, floating 15 million shares at $12.50 per share, netting the company roughly $180M in cash, which is significantly lower than the $400 they hoped to raise. This gives the company a market cap of well over a billion dollars. Noting that good companies don’t go public in bad markets, [...]