AustinStartup

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Anthony Castoro, the CEO of Heatwave Interactive. The company has been at SXSW Screenburn showing off Platinum Life, their iSamJackson iPhone app, and Gods & Heroes. Perhaps you were at their party at The Belmont last night?

Have you been at a bar wanting to order a drink but your waitress or waiter was not around?  Odds are that it has happened to you this week.  If you are at SXSWi here in Austin, it has happened to you more than once.  Busy bars make it tough to order drinks – [...]

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We’ve got a guest post today from Better Than The Van co-founder Todd Hansen. When I saw their amazingly cool contest for SXSW, I just had to get some backstory from them on their startup, and how they are hoping to make a big splash at SXSW.
I started BTTV about two years ago as something [...]

Click Forensics, a leading provider of online advertising verification solutions, today opened the beta testing program for a new platform that will enable online display advertisers to make audience impression filtering and ad serving decisions in real-time. The technology, designed to complement existing brand safety solutions, also features analytics to measure the effectiveness of display [...]

The annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival has been known as the launchpad for web-based technology companies. The most famous is probably Twitter, but other companies such as Smule and Gowalla have launched during the festival. Austin-based Localiter is hoping to make a similar splash at the festival with their daily specials made possible by [...]

MyEdu, the definitive online source to increase success and save money in college, today announced $5.5 million in series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Bain Capital, one of the largest and most respected private investment firms in the world. Bain Capital has a long history of funding successful [...]

When we heard that Sprint was rolling out 4G service in Austin, we knew it was something that we wanted to check out. For years people have been talking about how great WiMax was going to be, and now it’s finally here. We’ve all had or tried out 3G network data services that generally saw [...]

Investcorp Technology Partners, the technology private equity arm of alternative investment manager Investcorp, announced today that its Fund III has agreed to acquire an equity stake in CSIdentity, the Austin, Texas-based technology leader in identity theft and fraud protection services. CSIdentity was started by entrepreneur and co-founder Bill Morrow. The Fund has made [...]

In a recent ReadWriteWeb article, Dana Oshiro asked, “will this year’s branded iPhone app be a recommendation app?” The answer is yes, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Recommendations have always, even if unconsciously, been tied to the internet, but now it’s time for all that data to be paid forward.