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PetsMD.com, the number one name in free online pet health information, today unveiled their newest consumer friendly feature, the PetsMD Symptom Checker iPhone Application. “Our users have told us that they love the Symptom Checker application and want to take it with them on their iPhone,” says Tina Cannon, President and CEO. “Pet owners wanted [...]

Have you ever read about the things that go on in Washington DC, and think to yourself that some piece of legislation isn’t very helpful for those of us who work in the technology field, or are trying to start a business? Well, now we have a chance to send one of our own — [...]

We assigned a special guest blogger, Scott Francis, to cover Conformity’s recent launch. Scott is Co-founder and CTO of BP3, an Austin-based business process improvement consultancy.

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Joseph Kelly, COO of Infochimps.
Q:  Give us the elevator pitch for your company?
Infochimps is a website to find, share, or sell any dataset in the world.  Our collection has over 5,000 datasets on topics from number of deaths in a Rambo movie to US census data.  Much of our data [...]

Today the Dachis Group is announcing the launch of the Collaboratory, as well as my role as Director of the Collaboratory. Let me start by telling you a little bit about Dachis Group, and some of the unique and interesting features of the Collaboratory. You’ll understand quickly why this is one of the most exciting [...]

Austin City Limits is upon us, Austinites! Austin Startup caught up with Scott Owens this week to talk about DoStuff Media. You may not be familiar with the company, but it most certainly fits the bill of the “story behind the story.” In fact, DoStuff Media is a testament to the ongoing convergence of Austin’s vibrant technology and music scenes.

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Carrie Chitsey, the CEO of Txt4CRM.

Q:  Give us the elevator pitch for your company?

Mobile text messaging has matured beyond teenagers and TV reality show voting to become a powerful, mission critical component of any brand’s CRM strategy.  It’s broad reach and immediacy of response is why it has become the [...]

As one of the co-founders of Tech Ranch Austin, Kevin Koym is well known in the Austin tech community as a person who has help to foster entrepreneurship. Matt Scherer sat down with him to discuss how Austin Innotech, set for Oct. 29, at the Austin Convention Center, would help tech entrepreneurs.
Q: How [...]

Normally, my goal with this space is to write about Austin-area companies that are intriguing, but maybe not “on the radar” yet. But, I’m cheating a bit this time, by writing about Conformity. I met Scott Bils, its founding CEO, more than three years ago when we were both laboring away at ventures – me [...]

80legs, a startup that provides a web crawling service for the masses, officially launched on Wednesday at DEMOfall in San Diego.