March 17th, 2008
It’s official, Mumboe is now out of beta and officially launching. Momboe is a web-based application that helps companies take the mumbo jumbo out of managing their contractual agreements. The company is running with the highly popular “freemium” model, so if you’re interested you can sign up for an account today. The company is presenting [...]
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March 10th, 2008
I had a chance to meet some great guys from Canada at SXSW, the team from BitStrips. They launched their website at SXSW yesterday. They describe it as YouTube for comics. The site allows you to create and re-use comic characters in comic strips that you can build, even though you may have no creative [...]
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March 3rd, 2008
Austin-based Motion Computing launched its new rugged tablet at the Gartner Wireless and Mobile Summit. The F5 is IP54 rated and designed to withstand exposure to moisture and dust, which should help Motion gain better marketshare in the rugged PC segment. The F5 also features a “field-ready” warranty, which covers short drops and exposure to [...]
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February 20th, 2008
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Justin Britten and Daniel Wilson, founders of a new company named Compulsivo. Their first product is a website that helps companies manage their beta programs named Prefinery.
Q: How did you first get the idea for Prefinery, and how have you bootstrapped it so far?
Prefinery is the outcome of our own [...]
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February 11th, 2008
InovaWave is changing its name as it refocuses the company. “The name change from InovaWave to Hyper9, Inc. supports our mission to take advantage of wider opportunities in the virtualization software market beyond performance optimization of virtual machines,” said Chris Ostertag, president and CEO of Hyper9, Inc.
The company also announced Ben Rouse as its Chief [...]
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February 7th, 2008
UGC Powered Media Inc. today launched a beta version of it’s citizen journlist website Neaju. “Neaju.com is the first site on the Internet that will allow any user to submit a news story to a world-wide audience without the editorial oversight that is often used to inject bias and spin into news reporting,” said Vadim [...]
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January 29th, 2008
DEMO prides itself on being the launchpad for new innovative companies. They want to be the first to break your new company to the media, and if you jump the gun and announce before DEMO, you can actually get kicked out, as mEgo knows all too well. Keeping your company under wraps doesn’t seem to [...]
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January 14th, 2008
Austin-based Mumboe seems to be executing a sort of turnaround strategy with a new name and a new Software as a Service (Saas) model. The company was founded in 2005 as FineTooth, which made software that helps companies manage large amounts of contracts. The new name is intended to invoke images of the word “mumbojumbo” [...]
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