June 10th, 2008
Roy and Bertrand Sosa, two incredible entrepreneurs that started NetSpend, announced a $100M fund for emerging companies under the name MPower Ventures. Their first investment, something called MPower Labs which is the research and development arm. From the website’s front page:
MPower Labs is a global research and development incubator and business accelerator serving MPOWER Ventures [...]
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June 10th, 2008
SolarWinds announced today that its online community for network engineers, Thwack, celebrated its first anniversary. To commemorate the event, SolarWinds released a new free tool for monitoring Microsoft Exchange servers.
The Thwack community site was founded by network management software leader SolarWinds to provide its more than 16,000 members with a venue for sharing ideas, technical tips [...]
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June 9th, 2008
Austin-based Digby announced their mobile commerce platform today. Previously the company had announced the Digby Marketplace which allowed people to shop using their BlackBerry at retailers like Best Buy, FTD, Godiva, Barnes & Noble, and OfficeMax. Today the company announced “Powered by Digby” which allows retailers to have their own mobile commerce websites. Godiva Mobile [...]
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June 3rd, 2008
Mirage Networks, an Austin-based developer of Network Access Control (NAC) technology, has been named the winner of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Best Entrepreneurial Company Award. The award is presented annually to the company with fewer than 300 employees showing the highest achievement in innovative product development, strategic business development and focused market strategy.
“NAC technology [...]
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June 2nd, 2008
Alereon announced a full range of high performance worldwide reference designs for Wireless USB applications. Included are the Worldwide PCIe Half-MiniCard and Worldwide PCIe ExpressCard/34 reference designs for host laptops; and the Worldwide Wireless USB Graphics Adapter reference design for device solutions. Leveraging on Alereon’s first generation products, which were certified by the USB-IF, the [...]
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June 2nd, 2008
ON Networks today announced that it was named one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies by AlwaysOn. The OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology companies in digital entertainment and media. ON Networks was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria – innovation, [...]
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May 30th, 2008
FiveRuns, the application monitoring and systems management company for Ruby on Rails, today released the public beta for FiveRuns TuneUp, a free, socially networked application profiling tool for Ruby on Rails developers that provides rapid application performance analysis in development. The company also announced general availability of FiveRuns Manage 2.0, the subscription-based application performance management [...]
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May 29th, 2008
JP Morgan JMP Securities recently published their list of the “Best Privately Held Software Companies.” I’m sure they have criteria for what they mean by “best.” As we searched, we found several Austin-based companies.
Bazaarvoice
CoreMetrics
NetQoS
ReachForce
Solarwinds
Zilliant
Yes, we know that technically CoreMetrics is headquartered in the valley, but they started here and still have major operations here. Six out [...]
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May 28th, 2008
Yodlee, Inc., and Q2 Software, Inc. today announced a partnership to enhance Q2’s electronic banking platform with personal financial management and bill pay capabilities from Yodlee. The integrated Yodlee PersonalFinance and Yodlee BillPay components will be available for all Q2 customers as value-added features for the Q2 online banking experience.
“Q2 Software is helping to set [...]
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May 28th, 2008
Uplogix, a provider of secure remote management (SRM) solutions, today announced the award of a five-year General Services Administration (GSA) contract. Uplogix’ inclusion on the GSA schedule is enabled by an agreement with government contractor EC America enabling federal agencies to purchase and deploy Uplogix remote management solutions from authorized Uplogix Government Channel Partners.
“With demands [...]
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