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The Funemployment Movie Seeks to Showcase Austin’s Tech Startup Scene

lalorek — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:45:09 +0000

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The entrepreneur’s reality began to warp as the pitch competition took on a Shark Tank feel. The entrepreneur made an introductory joke…nobody got it. Then the investors began asking more and more personal questions. Nobody would really ask those kinds of questions would they? Soon it was [...]

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San Antonio Gets Its Own Health 2.0 Chapter

lalorek — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:09:02 +0000

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 [...]

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RetailMeNot Files its IPO Worth An Estimated $230 million

lalorek — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:35:35 +0000

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” [...]

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The Internship’s Message is to Enjoy the Real World

lalorek — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:57:58 +0000

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 [...]

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Rackspace Open Cloud Academy Graduates its First Class

lalorek — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:45:38 +0000

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. [...]

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San Antonio Mayor Castro and Local Business Leaders Support Immigration Reform

lalorek — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:18:57 +0000

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 [...]

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Tweet, Big Data, Geekery Added to the Oxford English Dictionary

lalorek — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:35:09 +0000

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, [...]

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National Instrument’s CEO Named Top Leader in Promoting STEM

lalorek — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:15:00 +0000

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 [...]

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National Instruments Helps Train Teachers in the STEM Fields

lalorek — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:31:38 +0000

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. [...]

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Using Gamification and “Rat Chow” for Learning New Skills

lalorek — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:22:16 +0000

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 [...]

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