Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
BY SUSAN LAHEY Silicon Hills News Reporter The pitch was: Move your company to Austin for free. Five companies in other parts of the country or the world competed for a $100,000 package that included: • A $35,000 investment from CTAN. • Three months rent in a 3 bedroom house from HomeAway. • Six months [...]
Matt Peterson, founder and CEO of Dejaset, a music technology company in Austin, dropped into the Silver Fox Studios today to chat with Slice of Silicon Hills News Host Andrew Moore. Dejaset allows bands to capture recordings of live performances and sell them immediately to fans. Peterson has created an application for the bands to [...]
Well that didn’t last long. One minute, Heyride is making all this noise in Austin and disrupting the taxi industry there. And the next, it’s swallowed whole by SideCar, a competitor, based in Silicon Valley. On Thursday, SideCar, a ridesharing startup, announced it acquired the assets of Heyride. SideCar has a free app for smart [...]
This week, We Are Austin Tech, the weekly video site highlighting local movers and shakers in the technology industry, has put the spotlight on Erica Douglass, founder of Whoosh Traffic. Douglass moved to Austin last year from Silicon Valley. Susan Lahey wrote this profile of her last year. “Erica started a web hosting and development [...]
BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Quick, how many tools do you use to stay in touch and on top of your schedule? Think Facebook, Google Plus, Base Camp, Dropbox, Survey Monkey, Doodle and email, email, email, email, email. Most of us have to go to at least half a dozen sites to [...]
Andy Keil has some projects he just hasn’t had the time to finish. So Keil, head of products at Handsome, launched Finish Up Weekend. It’s an invitation-only event that takes place at Chicon Collective, a funky new co-working space in downtown Austin. The tag line for the event is “Let’s get shit done.” Already, Keil [...]
Josh Sklar, founder of Heresy, thinks the advertising industry is broken. “In the late ‘80s the business was still sexy, it was still like the Mad Men days,” Sklar said. “The client would come to us and we would work together and we would build something.” Then over the years, ad production became more of [...]
Crytek GmbH announced it has opened its fist U.S.-based video game studio in Austin. It is the ninth studio worldwide for the company. “Crytek has always enjoyed a special relationship with gamers and business partners in North America, so establishing a permanent presence in the US was a natural step,” Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said [...]
Cospace, one of Austin’s original and popular coworking spaces, shut down last week. The site, located at Highway 183 and Lamar in North Austin, is working with TechRanch, a nearby tech incubator and coworking site, to relocate its members. While the physical space is gone, the Cospace brand continues to live on and serve entrepreneurs [...]
We Are Austin Tech, a weekly video segment featuring Austin’s technology industry movers and shakers, has released its latest video featuring VolunteerSpot Founder and CEO Karen Bantuveris. Bantuveris founded VolunteerSpot, which creates tools for moms, nonprofit organizers and others to coordinate volunteers, in 2009. Last summer, VolunteerSpot raised $1.5 million from ff Venture Capital of [...]
