August 14th, 2008
The new social networking community at Scottrade (http://community.scottrade.com/) is being powered by Austin-based software company Small World Labs. The new community will allow Scottrade customers to interact through discussion groups and blogs, and share trading ideas, strategies, spreadsheets and analysis. The social network site will also allow the community to provide feedback to Scottrade product [...]
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August 7th, 2008
Austin-based Bazaarvoice seems to have a steady stream of announcements with the top ecommerce sites, with Buy.com being the latest. Buy.com shoppers can now post product questions alongside standard product information to be answered by other consumers who have direct experience with the product in order to help customers make the best possible purchasing decisions. [...]
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August 6th, 2008
Intersil, a maker of analog chips, announced a definitive agreement to acquired Austin-based D2Audio, a maker of digital audio power amplifiers, and member of the Austin Emerging 100. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
D2Audio was founded in 2002, and had received over $50M in funding over the years from various firms including Austin [...]
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July 28th, 2008
Here’s some of the interesting items we’re following:
Connie Loizos over at PEHub blogged about a conversation with former Austinite Mike Maples. In it he talks about the window for investing in social media companies, and what types of deals his new $33M fund is looking at now.
Lori Hawkins at The Statesman had a writeup on [...]
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July 24th, 2008
Site Controls, the leading provider of enterprise energy management, facilities intelligence and grid efficiency solutions, today announced the asset acquisition of Excel Energy Technologies, including its Ikanosphere™ energy management solution for retail chains.
Site Controls currently operates at thousands of client locations, monitoring nearly 300,000 endpoints for leading retailers. Through its September 2007 joint venture with [...]
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July 16th, 2008
Entorian Technologies (NASDAQ: ENTN), formerly Staktek Holdings, announced the acquisition of Augmentix Corporation, a leader in rugged computing solutions. Both companies are headquartered in Austin. The acquisition positions Entorian to further expand into high-growth markets and to build on its 18-year history of manufacturing and packaging intellectual property (IP) for thermally and performance-intensive environments. Terms [...]
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June 17th, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent stepped up to the plate today and made an offer to acquire all the shares of Motive for $2.23 per share. Only a fool wouldn’t take that. That share price makes the purchase price about $68M. The company has about $32M in current assets, which means that the company’s value as an entity that [...]
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June 16th, 2008
The news started to trickle on Friday, with paidcontent.org reporting that Austin Ventures had won the bidding for Entrepreneur Media. The New York Times blog picked up on the story today, but just repeated the facts of the paidcontent.org story. The reported price tag is around $200M and there is another Boston-based private equity firm [...]
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June 5th, 2008
NetQoS, an Austin-based provider of network and application performance management products, has acquired Helium Systems, a privately held financial trade monitoring software company based in Valencia, Calif.
NetQoS acquired substantially all assets of Helium Systems for cash, including its customer base and TradePVR monitoring technology, which has been renamed NetQoS Trade Monitor. The acquisition makes NetQoS the [...]
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June 2nd, 2008
Active Power today announced an order from a China utility, one of the largest subsidiaries of the China National Power Grid, for eight PowerHouse containerized continuous power systems. This announcement marks the second multi-system PowerHouse sale in as many weeks for Active Power.
“The utility provides power to a region that hosts several important events annually [...]
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