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Last week an uncommon thing happened, 20 women working in technology got together to talk shop. Yes everyone, women do exist in tech. It’s not all greasy haired programmers and shiny suit wearing entreps. Looking around at any tech party in Austin, you usually think “There are too many damn men in this room”; and you’d be right.

Terapio Corporation, a development stage biotechnology company based in Austin, Texas, today announced it has secured $5 million in equity financing from Santé Ventures.
Terapio is developing a pipeline of therapeutic applications based on the unique properties RLIP76, a transport protein that helps move large molecules across the cell membrane. The [...]

I don’t like Twitter. I’ve never been coy about that. When it first launched, I thought, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” When it exploded in use, I thought, “This too shall pass.” When Ashton Kutcher sent a picture of his wife’s ass to the world, I thought, “We have reached the point of no return.” And yet, here we still are.

Our friends at Twitter rolled out their much-anticipated Lists feature to all users today. The new capability is very useful for finding and following users in certain verticals or categories, and we think that it is reasonable to expect an explosion in list-making over the weekend.
ReadWriteWeb has a great piece on Lists, which includes their [...]

Austin-based Digby raised another $5.5M from the new Blackberry Partners Fund last week, adding to a reported $2.5M Series A round. Considering that the fund made investments in only three companies as their first foray into the venture world, Digby is in good company. They had a nice writeup in the Statesman about it on [...]

N-trig, providers of DuoSense technology, combining pen and capacitive touch in a single device, brings the power of technology and the human touch together to begin a new era in interface technologies and lead the Hands-on computing evolution. With the industry’s only combined pen and multi-touch capabilities, N-trig is transforming the way people interact with [...]

Manticore Technology, a leading provider of easy-to-use, powerful, automated demand generation solutions, today announced the revolutionary next version of its flagship product, delivering robust capabilities for marketers with complex needs, while continuing to deliver the true value of SAAS, with an incredible one-hour implementation and unmatched ease of use.
Manticore Technology ‘09, Enterprise Edition has been [...]

Alereon today announced Toshiba’s new Wireless USB dynadock(TM) is powered by Alereon’s AL5000 Worldwide Wireless USB Chipset. The new Toshiba solution is the world’s highest performance and the only full featured docking station to meet the needs of the office environment. In addition, when used in conjunction with a Toshiba PCIe ExpressCard34 or WUSB adapter, [...]

We’ve been hearing rumors that eZee, one of the Austin Emerging 100 and a member of the Austin Technology Incubator, is ceasing operations. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but we’ll keep you posted if we hear something official.

Many of our readers have participated in the Moximity beta program ever since the launch, and it’s appearance in the iTunes App Store. Now the company has launched the companion website. You can check in at locations now from your laptop, and modify the radius of your search to see your friends. Depending upon your [...]