Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
Victor Rodriguez Special to Silicon Hills News About 800 Rackers (Rackspace employees) and members of the community attended the company’s 6th annual Green Day. Rackspace held the event on Wednesday at its San Antonio headquarters. San Antonio Backyard Chickens brought a bunch of chickens and educated Rackers on how to produce farm-fresh eggs in their [...]
By L.A. Lorek Data centers gobble up energy. But some of the smartest minds in the information technology industry want to change that. They are meeting in San Antonio today and tomorrow to rethink the old ways of putting together servers, power and cooling units and the rest of the guts of data centers to [...]
Rackspace wants to do for San Antonio what Dell has done for Austin, said Graham Weston, its chairman. “You’re here at the very beginning of something big” Weston said. That was evident Wednesday at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio when 11 teams took to the stage to showcase their cloud-based businesses [...]
Three months ago, a group of entrepreneurs moved into Geekdom in downtown San Antonio. Since then, the inaugural TechStars Cloud participants have been toiling away and working to create blockbuster cloud businesses that will change the world. Some have iterated, pivoted and overhauled their operations countless times. Names have changed. Teams have mixed it up. [...]
At the Starbucks across the street from Rackspace, Stacey Zuniga, a founder of Unwired Nation, last Friday talked about the company’s latest partnership. “We’re here to enable the enablers,” Zuniga said. Austin-based Unwired Nation creates a mobile app platform for companies. It recently joined the Rackspace Partner Program to offer mobile apps as a service [...]
Running a technology startup takes perseverance, money, luck, talent and the ability to adapt quickly. That’s the takeaway from Bill Boebel’s Startup Ignite talk at the Geekdom in San Antonio Friday night. Boebel, now an angel investor and managing director of Capital Factory in Austin, gave the audience of about 60 people an overview of [...]
And Cerealize, a site that allows people to make a customizable box of breakfast cereal, won the 2012 Startup Bus competition, according to this Fox Business News Story. The Startup Bus Finalists were: Bumper Crop (Florida) Happstr (NYC) Scoringo (Louisiana) Gourmair (Stanford) Adventeur (NYC) Spott (Mexico) Cerealize (SV) Curious City (DC)
At Rackspace headquarters, a slew of startup bus entrepreneurs pitched their ventures to a panel of celebrity judges Friday morning. Among the judges, Dave McClure, serial entrepreneur and head of 500 Startups, gave them frank feedback, laced with a lot of F-bombs. Dozens of entrepreneurs, from startup buses that originated in San Francisco, Boston, Cincinnati, [...]
The cloud hosting wars are starting to heat up in central Texas. Kansas-based Codero Hosting, a cloud hosting service provider, announced that is has hired Emil Sayegh as its president and CEO and he’ll be based in Austin. “In the next six months, Codero plans to add additional staff to its current headquarters in Lenexa, [...]
