Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Do you want a doctor? Do you want to bypass the hassle of insurance claims and pay cash up front? Then BudgetDoc wants to make your life easier by creating a network of doctors willing to give discounts to patients that pay cash up front. Dr. Megan [...]
Finding Funding for your startup is hard, but Greenhouse is trying to make it easier. The company is one of several firms taking advantage of the JOBS act of 2012, which relaxes regulations for equity investing and allows individuals to own stock in new startups without being SEC accredited. This means that you, or a [...]
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 [...]
Everyone knows by now that tech talent is in short supply nationwide. So ZippyKid, a fast growing WordPress hosting site, is offering $3,000 and the latest iPhone to someone who refers the winning candidate for its job opening. The company, based at Geekdom in San Antonio, is hiring a senior systems administrator. ZippyKid offers managed [...]
San Francisco-based Pole To Win America will establish a new Austin office next month to offer video game testing services. Pole To Win America’s Austin office, which will focus on console and personal computer games, plans to hire 50 employees. The company has more than 80 customers and plans to expand its North American presence [...]
A startup software company, Jumpshot, has successful raised $98,255 on Kickstarter to create a software program to clean up the hard drive of PCs and combat malware and viruses. Its Kickstarter program exceeded its $25,000 goal and still has more than 40 days to go. The software comes on a really cute USB stick and [...]
It’s been awhile since I had a baby – 13 years to be exact. And boy have things changed. The Austin startup Belly Ballot puts a whole new twist into what’s in a name for baby. Belly Ballot, which bills itself as a social startup, lets expecting parents survey their friends and family via Facebook, [...]
Just like in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, the creators of White Whale Games are looking for that elusive big fish. But unlike the classic novel from which the founders chose their name, they’re likely to land their whale. And their “whale” is a fantasy sword fighting game for IOS, Mac and PC platforms that they [...]
Gazzang released its latest security software product: Gazzang zTrustee, a security management system. The Austin-based startup says the software as a service offering provides companies with a “universal key manager that stores and manages all cryptographic keys, certificates, configuration files, tokens and any other “opaque objects” an enterprise maintains to secure its most sensitive data.” [...]
By SUSAN LAHEY Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News When Richard Jalichandra, formerly CEO of Technorati, moved from Northern California to Austin to become CEO of MapMyFitness, he was surprised to find that Austin is the fittest city he’s ever seen. “We’ve got purple haired pierced hippies with six-pack abs” he observed. Which makes the [...]
