Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
San Antonio has landed its own chapter of Health 2.0 and an organizational meeting will be held Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at Geekdom. The organization’s mission is to support health technology startups. Health 2.0, based in San Francisco, started as an annual convention and now has 64 chapters around the world. Cynthia Phelps, founder [...]
RetailMeNot has filed a registration statement with federal regulators for an initial public offering worth an estimated $230 million. The Austin-based online coupon site, formerly Whale Shark Media, has applied to have its stock listed on the Nasdaq market under the ticket symbol “SALE.” The company also reports that it is “an “emerging growth company” [...]
The big takeaway from watching this summer’s buddy comedy, The Internship, about two middle aged laid off salesmen who become interns at Google, is don’t get so enamored of the latest technology and gadgets that you neglect real life. And Google, for all its glory, is just a tool that humans use to get what [...]
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News After eight weeks of hard work and not much sleep, 17 students graduated from the Rackspace Open Cloud Academy on Friday in San Antonio. The graduates are now certified in A+, Network+, Linux+, Apache, MySQL, Rackspace system administration, Red Hat system administration, cloud basics, and critical thinking. [...]
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Fresh off a trip to Washington, D.C. to tout immigration reform, San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro met with local business leader to drum up support for current legislation pending before Congress. On Tuesday, Mayor Castro joined President Obama and other government and business leaders at the White [...]
Remember when Google became a verb? It was 2006. And now tweet has become a verb too! The world is getting much more high tech and a lot quicker at that. In a “Quiet Announcement” on the Oxford English Dictionary site that has been picked up globally by just about every news outfit, John Simpson, [...]
National Instrument’s James Truchard, co-founder, president and CEO was named one of the top 100 CEO leaders in the country in promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, known as STEM, fields in the U.S. The STEMConnector magazine released its official list and presents 100 corporate CEO profiles along with their thoughts on the need for [...]
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Simulating an earthquake on a wooden building model equipped with sensors or studying energy flow on a miniature power plant and power grid. Those are a few of the hands-on activities for high school kids to learn about physics thanks to a program created by National Instruments. [...]
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News If you want to teach leadership and decision making skills, games are the way to do it, explained Jeff Johannigman, former game designer who now works as Learning Performance Specialist at General Motors. Johannigman spoke at the Elearning Symposium at the Omni Southgate Wednesday. The symposium, hosted [...]
There’s a new map in town: ATXup. Nick Hammond, an Austin-based software developer, created the map using an open source program called RepresentMap. Other startup communities worldwide are using the same program to map their emerging tech startup economies. Some of the latest additions to the map include: Nitero Inc., Trails.by, Longhorn Startup Camp, Clay.io, [...]
