Facebook Landing Team transports company culture
Vancouver Sun | March 30, 2011 | Mike Swift AUSTIN, Texas - As Facebook evolves from insular Silicon Valley start-up to a global company with a necklace of offices around the planet, it is relying on a...
View ArticleScoutmob adds mobile coupon deals to Austin
Location-based coupon dealer Scoutmob is now deep in the heart of Texas. The Atlanta-based company announced the addition of Austin to its listing of local mobile deal services along with nine other...
View ArticleWSJ: Softbank’s Son Stills Twitter to Protest New Japan Internet Rule
Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Yoree Koh This much is clear: Masayoshi Son has been an angry man these past few days. While Japan’s richest man has recently used Twitter to share news of his...
View ArticleWalmart buys Silicon Valley social media firm for smartphone push
Walmart may be trying to get into your pocket – through social media that is – after purchasing silicon valley based Kosmix for an undisclosed sum, according to Reuters. The shopping chain giant is...
View ArticleDigby teams with AT&T, raises $8 million
Digby, a homegrown Austin company and developer of mobile commerce software announced yesterday that it had raised $8 million in a recent round of Series C funding in the wake of announcing the...
View ArticleGroupon acquires Whrrl, sparks questions
One might think that Austin-based mobile check-in and social networking company GoWalla would be happy that one of their competitors is now gone, but the story is more complicated. Groupon acquired...
View ArticleAmazon web-hosting crash hits Texas companies
While the Amazon cloud crash affected big sites such as Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit last week, it hit home at smaller companies across the nation and in Austin and Texas as well. The...
View ArticleMobile Scene mind map spreads to Houston, Dallas
Appconomy, an Austin-based app developer, is also about collaboration and helping companies find each other. The company previously launched a ‘mobile mind map’ for Austin late last year, documenting...
View ArticlePress Release: Unisys Mobile Solution Makes Bill Payment Easy for Customers...
Unisys | April 26, 2011 | Press Release Innovative solution uses Unisys ClearPath ePortal technology to let CEDAE customers pay bills anywhere using their smartphones Sao Paulo, April 26, 2011 –...
View ArticleShould Austin strive to be Austin or Silicon Valley?
There was a lot of talk at the Texas Labs Venture Expo today about whether Austin should strive to be the next Silicon Valley, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently suggested. In late April, Gov. Perry...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs should take funding, stay humble
Wireless leaders of the future were among an audience at panel session for competitors in a global investment competition at the University of Texas at Austin Thursday in which past winners and...
View ArticleSILICON VALLEY: JiWire raises $20 million for location-based advertising
JiWire Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to date at $45 million. The San Francisco-based company provides a platform to deliver advertising across mobile...
View ArticleInterspire grows e-commerce platform, Austin workforce
E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011. The Sydney-based company announced that healthy...
View ArticleMobile phone advertising skyrockets 128%
ComScore Inc. (SCOR), a company specializing in business analytics, released a study that claims that the number of mobile display advertisements have more than doubled in the past two years. The...
View ArticleUndercoverTourist.com launches BlackBerry app to round out app trio
UndercoverTourist.com, an Austin-based provider of online discounts for travel to Orlando, Fla.-based destinations such as Disney World, Universal Studios Orlando, SeaWorld, Richard Petty Driving...
View ArticleCatapult Systems, Seed Labs launch new mobile app division
Austin-based technology consultancy Catapult Systems announced a partnership with Seed Labs to create a new division known as Mobile Alchemy to focus exclusively on developing custom apps for mobile...
View ArticleCisco launches new connected stadium Wi-Fi offering
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) wants to dominate the sports stadium and entertainment industry by catering to the end user and wants to make flawless reception and especially smartphone and tablet use a...
View ArticleAustin mobile video companies flourish
Austin is known as the home of the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival, which has become one the premier tech culture events in the world. When you consider that two of the three named components of...
View ArticleMobile payments firm ViVOtech scores millions in Motorola funding
Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility have sunk $24 million in funding into Santa Clara based mobile payment firm ViVOtech, along with Singapore’s EDBI, Citi Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Draper...
View Article“TVcheck”, the new app which aspires to revolutionize the social TV experience
France Telecom – Orange | July 12, 2011 | Press Release With social networks and multi-screen functions now part of everyday life, you no longer want to wait until the following day before you can talk...
View ArticleYelp still toying with IPO, but hasn’t started the process claims CEO
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said his firm would likely go public over the next year or so but had not yet started the process, as it continues to grow its mobile following. “We haven’t started the...
View ArticleSpotify music service launches in the U.S.
After two long years of negotiations with record companies, Spotify, a Swedish streaming music service, is finally launching today in the U.S. after hammering out deals with the big four labels of...
View ArticleApple and Android roundup: iPad 2 demand, software updates and ad markets
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. (APPL) and its iPad 2 is still the most popular tablet around the globe, even after it’s been on the shelves for four months. In the last couple of weeks, Apple has...
View ArticleJumbuck says mobile matches made in heaven
Jumbuck, an Australian VAS firm, is trying to translate the love affair people have with their phones into real life social relationships. “The mobile phone is a device that has a wonderful intimate...
View ArticleStampt hopes to replace paper coupons with digital loyalty cards
San Francisco based startup Stampt today unleashed its digital loyalty reward card program across the US. The service, which aims to swap out paper coupons of the “buy-10-get-1-free” variety with a...
View ArticleMotorola Solutions invests in micro-location firm Nearbuy Systems
Motorola Solutions Venture Capital has led a $1 million round of financing for Menlo Park based Nearbuy Systems which specializes in indoor “micro-location.” Motorola Solutions joined Eric Schmidt’s...
View ArticleGoogle kicks off “Texas get your business online” workshops
Google Austin: A first-person, customer update Google. They are the digital version of General Electric, but for the 21st century. Both are classic, American-headquartered, global conglomerates,...
View ArticleUpstream drops anchor in Silicon Valley
Mobile marketing platform company Upstream says it will be opening new offices in Redwood City, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley. The firm, whose MCS marketing technology platform boasts over...
View ArticleGroupon and Foursquare team up on daily deals
Two top social apps are apparently joining forces, with news Groupon and Foursquare are teaming up with a daily deal partnership. Location based social app Foursquare has long been trying to make some...
View ArticleGoogle opens up for international phone calling
Google has expanded its VoIP calling service beyond the US market, launching its service in 38 languages with payment options in four currencies. The software giant had launched a rather limited VoIP...
View ArticleFast-growing WhaleShark nets investment from Google, adds HomeAway CEO to board
The Statement | August 2, 2011 | Lori Hawkins In a move that expands its network of high-profile supporters, fast-growing WhaleShark Media said it has received an investment from Google ….. Full...
View ArticleAcquired mobile advertising executive leaves Apple
Andy Miller is leaving Apple Inc. (AAPL) for a job in venture capital, AllThingsD reports. The mobile advertising executive came to Apple in 2010 by way of a $275 acquisition of Quattro Wireless, a...
View ArticleMobile ad firm Blyk names insider Eric Kip as CEO
Reuters | August 29, 2011 | Tarmo Virki Blyk, a pioneer in the mobile-telephone advertising business, said on Tuesday it has appointed its chief commercial officer, Eric Kip, to take over as chief...
View ArticleLiving local, growing global – Appconomy leverages Austin talent base to...
Appconomy’s Steve Guengerich is not from Austin, but he says he got here as quickly as he could. He came in the 1990’s, moving his company from Houston when it was ready to go public. Now his latest...
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