Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
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 ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Do you like music videos? Do you miss old MTV? If you do, then you’ll probably like Rockify. Created by Joel Korpi, the Rockify platform is designed to present music videos in a better format than other sites on the web. But there’s a twist, Korpi has [...]
TechStars, a Boulder, Co.-based technology accelerator, is expanding to Austin with a new program that will start in August. “Forbes and Bloomberg have been calling Austin the No. 1 Boomtown and the best place for your startup for years now, and Google recently chose it as the second city to receive the fastest Internet on [...]
By LAURA LOREK Founder Silicon Hills News Startup founders can learn a lot from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that. And on Monday, three serial entrepreneurs in Austin shared some of the challenges they faced in building their companies and some tips on how others can succeed. Sam Decker, co-founder of Mass Relevance, [...]
Are you ready for a rumble? Tonight in Austin, some local startups will throw down their best pitches in a contest sponsored by Tech Cocktail. Tech Cocktail, a tech media company based in Chicago, throws parties at SXSW every year but it also holds a few Austin mixers every year. Tonight, Tech Cocktail will be [...]
BY ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Great tech startups need great developers – especially developers that are fluent in the latest coding languages used on the web. Unfortunately, the only way for companies to get such developers is to train them in house, or hope to find someone who has learned them on [...]
Startup Grind, based in Mountain View, Calif. seeks to foster entrepreneurship through storytelling. Derek Anderson founded Startup Grind, which now has chapters in 40 cities and 20 countries around the world. One of the latest chapters is Startup Grind San Antonio. The values of Startup Grind are important ones to foster an entrepreneurial environment. “We [...]
BY ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News This week, we talked with Circle Media founder and CEO Mark Piening about his new startup. Incorporated just last January, Circle Media officially launched at SXSW and was one of the five finalists in the Startup Austin Fast Pitch Competition. The Austin based company does data analysis [...]
This week Slice of Silicon Hills News Host Andrew Moore interviews StoryPress founder Michael Davis about his new iPad app for creating and saving family history through audio stories. “StoryPress is trying to change the way that family history is preserved and passed down from generation to generation by making it fun and easy to [...]
BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The Austin Startup session on Why Austin skewed aspirational Saturday morning as Bijoy Goswami of Bootstrap Austin and Kevin Koym of Tech Ranch explained that Austin is the city where you can “be yourself,” where people “look you in the eye and smile at you” and where [...]
