Moximity Website Launches

Many of our readers have participated in the Moximity beta program ever since the launch, and it’s appearance in the iTunes App Store. Now the company has launched the companion website. You can check in at locations now from your laptop, and modify the radius of your search to see your friends. Depending upon your [...]

HomeAway Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art World Headquarters

HomeAway, Inc., the world’s leading vacation rental marketplace, today officially broke ground for its new Gold-level LEED-certified offices under construction at 1011 W. 5th St.
The four-story, 86,000-square-foot mixed-use building is a development of Schlosser Development, and will also house modern home décor store West Elm and other retailers. The project represents Schlosser Development Corporation’s fourth [...]

Your Network Is MORE Important In A Bad Economy

Thom Singer is the director of business development for vcfo, inc. He is also the author of three books on the power of business relationships and networking. He can be reached at www.thomsinger.com.
Have you heard? The international economy is not doing great. One cannot pick up a newspaper, read a website or hear a broadcast [...]

Spiceworks Hits 500,000 User Milestone and Doubles Advertisers

On the opening day of the inaugural SpiceWorld 2008 user conference, Spiceworks announced that the user base for the industry’s first free crowdsourced IT management application for small and medium businesses has doubled to more than 500,000 in just nine months – making the Spiceworks IT Desktop the world’s fastest growing IT management application. In [...]

Austin Ventures Commits $75M to AVRON

Austin Ventures, fresh off the close of $900M for a new fund, announced the commitment of up to $75 million of equity capital for the creation of AVRON Partners, Inc., a new supply chain services acquisition and strategic business development company. The new organization has been formed in partnership with Ronald T. Sorrow, co-founder and [...]

Rackspace Makes Cloud Announcements

Rackspace is in Austin today hosting an event at Austin City Limits, complete with BBQ lunch! We didn’t really hear about this event ahead of time, so we couldn’t help them promote it. Don’t they know who we are? (totally kidding) For future reference, Rackers, keep us in the loop. Despite that, every mover and [...]

Small World Labs In Showbizzle

Small World Labs, an Austin-based provider of enterprise social networking software and online community building expertise, today announced a partnership with one of Hollywood’s most successful writers and producers, resulting in “Showbizzle,” a unique form of Internet entertainment that blends traditional broadcast storytelling with the two-way conversions enabled by social media.
“We have seen many transformations [...]

AV Launches Port Logistics Group with 3 Acquisitions

Austin Ventures (“AV”), one of the nation’s leading venture and growth capital firms, announces the acquisition of three companies to launch Port Logistics Group (“PLG”). The investment was made in partnership with Robert Stull, a leading executive in the transportation logistics and distribution services industries. Mr. Stull will lead PLG as its President and Chief [...]

Monday News Summary

Here’s a summary of some of the local tech news here in Austin today.

Convio rolled out some new functionality today that helps support non-profits that operate through an affiliate model (we’re thinking like state and local chapters of the Red Cross and such).
Bazaarvoice has added Cars.com to it’s growing list of the top internet retailers.
HomeAway [...]

What a Week!

Last week was just crazy.
We had the Texas Wireless Summit, which also included the Wireless Seedstage Forum (posting coming soon). Congratulations to Moximity for winning the award for “best pitch” at the forum. Thursday was also Innotech and the Post Conference Cocktails afterward put on by Austin Tech Happy Hour and the Austin Technology Council. [...]