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Almost two years ago Bazaarvoice started a counter on their home page marking the number of pieces of user-generated content (UGC) they had served up on the web. We estimated that later that same year they would hit 20 billion reviews. Now, as you can tell from the home page, the company has reached the [...]

The annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival has been known as the launchpad for web-based technology companies. The most famous is probably Twitter, but other companies such as Smule and Gowalla have launched during the festival. Austin-based Localiter is hoping to make a similar splash at the festival with their daily specials made possible by [...]

RenewData, a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines. RenewData’s revolutionary end-to-end platform is the industry’s first solution to expedite eDiscovery of both [...]

It’s time for Capital Factory 2010 to start kicking off with the opening of applications, startup speed dating, and office hours where you can meet the mentors and share ideas. If you didn’t keep track of Capital Factory in our inaugural year last year, five companies were selected for the program (Cubit Planning, Hourville, Sparefoot, [...]

Click Forensics, Inc., the industry leader in audience verification and traffic quality improvement for the online advertising community, today announced that it is working with eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, to help protect eBay advertisers from fraudulent traffic and to improve conversion rates for merchants using eBay’s AdCommerce advertising platform. By working together to [...]

IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed (but you can speculate in the comments). Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies [...]

Austin-based SpiceWorks announced last week that version 4.5 has come out of beta, and the final is shipping. This is the 17th software release in 3 years for the company, and contains a handful of great new features. The tool contains support for HTTPS/SSL, so that it can manage networks outside of your firewall with [...]

One of the interesting things that we discovered during our first year of Capital Factory was that very few companies had a complete founding team. By complete, I mean the founding team had people with both knowledge of their product and industry, and technical skills.

This was originally posted on the Dachis Group Collaboratory.
A recent study by Robert Half and Associates found that 54% of companies ban the use of public social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the workplace. The reasoning could be that productivity would be hampered, or that your organization must be compliant with regulations from [...]

uShip, the global online shipping marketplace, today announced it has surpassed $125M in business transacted in just five years, two-thirds of which has occurred during the recession. In 2009, uShip’s revenues doubled versus 2008 and the company also enhanced local settings for customers in the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. uShip turned profitable [...]