By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Stephanie King attended a 3 Day Startup program at Geekdom in San Antonio last weekend with an idea for a company. “I quickly realized I needed more focus,” she said. Instead of pitching her idea, King joined Spotduct, a startup focused on creating short videos for brands […]
Brewing New Tech Startups at UTSA
July 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A can ban on the Comal River in New Braunfels prompted a University of Texas at San Antonio engineering team to create a solution. They created the PalmKeg, a mini-keg sized insulated beer cooler to make transporting beer on the river easy. “It’s the perfect eco-friendly beer container,” said Amber Ernst, senior at UTSA majoring […]
CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders
May 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman. Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […]
UTSA Hosts the Open BigCloud Symposium
May 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Some of the biggest trends in technology today are the cloud, a fancy name for data centers, and big data, the massive bits and bytes of information flowing through those data centers. At the University of Texas at San Antonio, more than 100 people met Wednesday to […]
Join a Special 3 Day Startup Focused on Cyber Security in San Antonio
May 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Did you know San Antonio has the second largest concentration of cyber security professionals outside of the Washington, D.C. area? The bulk of them are at the National Security Agency’s (also nicknamed as No Such Agency) Texas Cryptology Center. The NSA leased and renovated the old Sony chip manufacturing plant in 2005 and was expected […]
3 Day Startup Green Tech in San Antonio Sprouts Startups
April 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Growing up in India, Rohit Saxena often used biodegradable bowls and plates made from leaves. When he moved to the U.S., he couldn’t believe how many disposable paper and plastic dishes get tossed into the trash and landfills every day. Saxena’s team at 3 Day Startup Green […]
Code for America Coming to San Antonio
October 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News The City of San Antonio is now one of only 10 U.S. city governments chosen for the national Code for America program. Its status as a fellowship city was announced last week at the annual Code for America Summit. A national nonprofit organization, Code for America works […]
A Storify Wrap-up of the Nonprofit Tech Summit at Rackspace
September 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
