Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
Nick Longo, director of Geekdom, provides this insight into Geekdom, a year-old collaborative coworking space in downtown San Antonio. It is Texas’ largest co-working site. Geekdom, which is a sponsor of Silicon Hills News, has expanded from the 11th floor to the 10th floor. It’s home to the TechStars Cloud. Geekdom 2.2 video from The [...]
Like countless pioneers, the quintessential Austin technology, music and film conference, South by Southwest ventures West. SXSW announced Tuesday that it plans to host SXSW V2V in Las Vegas next August 11th to 14th at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The show will focus on entrepreneurial innovation. The four day event seeks to bring together [...]
Every week, We Are Austin Tech, a group of entrepreneurs, technologists and other volunteers release a video highlighting someone who has contributed to the local technology industry. Last week’s video put the spotlight on Jason Cohen, founder of WPEngine and other startups including co-founding Capital Factory. We Are Austin Tech seeks to tell the story [...]
It’s not high-speed rail, but any kind of effort to connect San Antonio and Austin and provide the free-flow of the workforce in the region is a welcome one. Megabus.com will begin service in Texas on June 19th. The express bus company is offering fares from $1 to travel to Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and [...]
San Antonio-based Startech Foundation is now accepting applications to the Texas Emerging Technology Fund from south central Texas based technology startups. The program is aimed at providing seed stage funding for technology startups, university faculty and others focused on emerging technology. “Funds may be used for any legitimate business purpose but the primary focus of [...]
Startup Weekend Austin kicks off Friday and runs through Sunday. The event features a group of people who come up with business ideas and then spend 54 hours together hammering out the details and launching the companies. The event, which takes places at HubAustin Coworking at 4930 S. Congress Ave, is so popular that it [...]
BY SUSAN LAHEY Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News It cost Richard Garriott “tens of millions” of dollars to travel to outer space in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2008. Now his goal is to make it commercially feasible for people to travel for “ones of millions.” And he’s not alone. Garriott, an internationally known [...]
Bazaarvoice plans to offer 9.5 million shares of stock in its initial public offering, raising $114 million. The stock, priced at $12 a share and traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol, BV, will begin trading Friday morning, according to a news release from Bazaarvoice. The Austin-based company is offering 9 million shares and [...]
Austin Ventures announced that Andrew Busey, a well-known Austin entrepreneur, has joined its firm as a venture partner. Busey formerly served as vice present and general manager at Zynga, makers of Farmville. “In his new role, Andrew will help the venture team identify and attract very early-stage companies,” John Thornton, general partner of Austin Ventures, [...]
