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Mumboe, an Austin-based company designed to give businesses a simple, affordable way to track and manage their agreements with customers, partners and employees, has announced a partnership aimed at helping companies reduce contract costs and improve business accountability General Counsel Solutions, a leading provider of corporate legal services.  We’ve previously covered Mumboe here and here.
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Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced that its breakthrough ShoutIt! feature has been enhanced to allow users to publish product reviews, answers, and stories on Twitter. With a single click, consumers can now broadcast their product opinions and experiences on Twitter where they are immediately [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with the Larry Warnock, the Chief Executive Officer of Phurnace Software, Inc., an Austin-based provider of Java EE™ management tools .  Phurnace is a member of the AustinEmerging100 and has previously been covered here on Austin startup.  Phurnace is an interesting company here in Austin, having ties to both The McCombs [...]

Challenge Games, Andrew Busey’s latest startup and the company behind the popular online fantasy game Duels and the new fantasy baseball and card collecting game Baseball Boss, announced it has secured $10 million in Series B funding. The round is being led by Globespan Capital Partners with participation from Series A investor Sequoia Capital as [...]

On Networks, a creator and distributor of high quality short form video programming, announced today an original series aimed at young girls called Smart Girls at the Party. The show is created by and stars actor/writer Amy Poehler, and friends Meredith Walker, former senior producer for Nickelodeon’s Nick News, head of talent for Saturday Night [...]

This week’s Q&A Wednesday is with an Austin-based company that debuted at DEMO 08, Voyant.  Voyant has just released the latest Web 2.0 version of its free do-it-yourself financial planning platform that gives consumers greater control over their financial health.  We recently sat down with CEO David Kaufman to find out more about the company [...]

Spiceworks, the ad supported, Austin-based IT management company, has announced a pretty cool feature for their 400,000 IT managers -crowdsourcing.  The new features, called SpiceLists, enable users to collaboratively develop, share, and rank IT best practices, products and services, and reports – making it even easier for them to manage their networks. The SpiceLists address [...]

This week’s Q&A Wednesday is with Games2U, an exciting new Austin-based company focused on creative entertainment.  What’s that have to do with Austin Startup?  Well, there actually is a lot of cool technology that goes into the company.  So, we sat down with David Pikoff to find out more about the company and what the [...]

The Dallas Cowboys are getting into the social media craze.  Tapping Austin’s Pluck for assistance,  the Dallas Cowboys have announced plans to add social media capabilities across the team’s fan and retail sites.  Given the intersection of sports and technology, this combination makes sense for all football fans out there.  According to Derek Eagleton, internet [...]

This week’s Q&A Wednesday is with Mirage Networks, an Austin-based company focused on network security, which was recently named Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year.  Austin Startup sat down with Greg Stock, President and CEO of Mirage Networks, to find out more about the network access control market, the history of the [...]