Even in a time of macroeconomic uncertainty, growing companies are hiring. The best and brightest are always in high demand. Recruiting is difficult, and expensive yet it’s one of the most important things in any organization. A company is only made up of the people who are recruited into it, and the company culture is [...]
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Austin-based Click Forensics today announced a new feature for the Click Forensics for Advertisers™ solution which allows brands to identify and track organizations and individuals unlawfully using trademarked names for search marketing campaigns. The new feature produces updated reports on potential trademark abusers who use well-known brand names to generate Pay Per Click (PPC) traffic. [...]
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It’s hard to believe the end of the year is here, which means that preparations are being made for the 2009 Silicon Hills poster. You’ve seen them all around town, and you’ve probably been given a few posters as gifts over the years. For 2009, a 5-foot version of the poster will be featured at [...]
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Small World Labs, an Austin-based provider of enterprise social media solutions and online community building expertise, today announced an agreement with the ProTech group of companies that will make Small World Labs software available throughout the United Kingdom. ProTech, a 12-year-old provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software used by the Professional Footballer’s Association, the Liberal [...]
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Austin-based Moximity released a limited beta of their new mobile application on Thursday. The launch was celebrated at an amazing party at The Belmont after the TechCrunch Meet-Up. Moximity allows you to see restaurants, clubs, and other locations that are in close proximity to your location, and to broadcast your location to your friends via [...]
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Earlier in the month we wrote about the public beta of AntStorm, and it seems to be going well. The company announced today that more than 2,500 trails have been created by registered users. AntStorm users share collections of their favorite links about a particular topic as “trails” on AntStorm and the major search engines. Groups [...]
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On Networks, a creator and distributor of high quality short form video programming, announced today an original series aimed at young girls called Smart Girls at the Party. The show is created by and stars actor/writer Amy Poehler, and friends Meredith Walker, former senior producer for Nickelodeon’s Nick News, head of talent for Saturday Night [...]
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Here’s a summary of other Austin tech news.
Austin Ventures Promotes Craig Milius to General Partner. Craig is on the boards of CreditCard.com and HomeAway, and has worked with Newgistics since its inception. Recently, he spoke at Texchange on topic of technology as a service.
Zilliant Signs UK Company Travis Perkins. Travis Perkins is the leading supplier of [...]
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Early in the Summer Itzbig employees started hitting the streets, and word was that the VC funding was announced, but when it came time to write checks the pen ran out of ink. No word on if it was Rho Ventures or Sevin Rosen that backed out of the funding committment. Apparently Jim McGovern wrote [...]
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Inc. Magazine has released their annual list which used to include the top 500 private companies, but for the second year has expanded to 5000. There are 378 Texas-based companies in the list, which means 7.5% of the fastest-growing private companies are in Texas. In browsing through the list, here’s the Austin-based tech companies that [...]
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