At Capital Factory Friday morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a new partnership with the Austin Community College District to offer its App Development with Swift curriculum to students. The program, which Apple is rolling out at more than 30 community colleges nationwide, allows students to learn app development skills that will prepare them for […]
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Visits Austin and Announces New Training Program with Austin Community College
August 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Polygraph Media is Disrupting the Advertising Industry through Data and Analytics
August 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Chris Treadaway doesn’t chain smoke or drink cocktails all day at his office at WeWork at the Domain. But he is living a Modern-Day version of Mad Men, the AMC TV series that dramatized the lives of ad men in the 1960s at a fictional New York advertising agency. Today, Treadaway is involved in the […]
11 Startups Join DivInc’s Latest Accelerator Program
August 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In 2016, Preston James, Ashley Jennings, and Dana Callender founded DivInc to bring greater entrepreneurial diversity to Austin’s technology industry. The 12-week accelerator program, based at Capital Factory, has graduated two cohorts so far and made a big impact on providing women and minorities with greater access to mentors, funding, partnerships and the overall inner […]
Indeed.com Acquires Interviewed
August 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Indeed, a global job site based in Austin announced it has acquired Interviewed, a human resources technology company based in San Francisco. “Indeed’s mission is to help people get jobs, and today we make it easy for millions of job seekers to find and apply to jobs all over the world,” Chris Hyams, president of […]
Techstars Cloud Selects 11 Companies to Participate in “Cloud 2016”
November 3, 2015 by 1 Comment
Techstars Cloud in San Antonio announced its latest class of 11 companies participating in its second program this year. “We have a group of amazing founders from all over the world,” Blake Yeager, managing director of Techstars Cloud wrote in a blog post. In addition to the U.S., startups from Spain, Taiwan and Ireland are […]
Cognitive Scale Launches in Austin
October 22, 2014 by 2 Comments
Cognitive Scale launched Wednesday in Austin. The startup, founded 18 months ago, has operated in stealth mode until now. Cognitive Scale has created a “cognitive” cloud platform that can mine huge databases and understand natural language to present data in an easy to understand format. The cognitive cloud simulates the human thought processes and mimics […]
Silicon Hills News’ Latest Magazine on Tech Startups Taking Off
October 7, 2014 by 2 Comments
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Rockets launching are a symbol of Texas’ rich history in the space industry. Although innovation has become a buzzword in many circles it still rings true in Texas and the neighboring states of Louisiana and Mississippi, which all have NASA facilities. Space exploration is at that heart […]
Startup Week Founder Jacqueline Hughes: The Person Behind the Community
September 24, 2014 by 6 Comments
BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Jacqueline Hughes seems the antithesis of a typical event coordinator—what Austin Technology Council’s Grover Bynum calls “whistle and clipboard” people. Event coordinators have reputations for being frenetic, type A, wearing frozen, stressed smiles. Hughes, curled up in an easy chair at Techstars Austin, seems relaxed, chill, though […]
Innovative Startups Should Apply to the SXSW Accelerator
September 3, 2014 by 1 Comment
At South by Southwest Interactive for the past six years, innovative tech startups have clamored to get into the SXSW Accelerator to showcase their company before a tech-savvy audience. This year, the deadline to apply to participate in the SXSW Accelerator is Nov. 7th. But don’t procrastinate. This is a highly selective accelerator that only […]
The Techstars Cloud Program Returns to San Antonio in 2015
July 23, 2014 by 12 Comments
I am very excited to have the opportunity to restart and lead the Techstars Cloud program: http://t.co/jMnKZomSuq cc @techstars — Blake Yeager (@blake_yeager) July 23, 2014 The Techstars Cloud program launched in San Antonio in 2012 with 11 companies and the next year another 11 startups participated in the 2013 program. But the program, launched […]
