Meet the management team of the local Austin design center at the AWA happy hour! Much of my email revolves around which companies are growing and hiring in Austin. Qualcomm’s Austin design team continues to hire, and is hosting a happy hour Wednesday evening with the Austin Wireless Alliance. If you’re into digital signal processing, chip design, circuit design, and verification testing you should consider coming to The Belmont tomorrow from 5pm – 8pm for [...]

Aspyr Media, Inc., an Austin-based gaming company which specializes in adapting popular games to new consoles, will soon be bringing Guitar Hero to a PC near you.  The company announced today that that the third iteration of the wildly popular Guitar Hero franchise, Guitar Hero™ III: Legends of Rock, will be available to PC and Mac gamers for the first time ever this fall.  This is quite a score for Aspyr as Guitar Hero has [...]

It’s great to see the Austin Business Journal cover technology innovation with their Tech Innovation Awards series. Each week they will feature four finalists, and you can vote for your favorite. This week’s four include Bazaarvoice, ClickForensics, Pluck, and LifeSize. The award winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 29th. Online voting for Group 1 is here.

First it was Apogee Search in "The Journal" and now Austin-based Bazaarvoice is featured on page B3. The article reads like a case study about how customer reviews can increase conversion rates for web retailers, the largest of which are Bazaarvoice customers. The product reviews space is really starting to heat up with Bazaarvoice and another company named Power Reviews leading the charge. In a strange case of serendipity, Power Reviews announced $15M in a [...]

The AlwaysOn Network announced their first annual GoingGreen 100 list of the hottest private companies in greentech. They are trying to feature companies with "game-changing" technologies that make it possible for big businesses to go green. The winners list also goes on to note that greentech has become the 3rd largest investment class for venture capital. Companies were highlighted in several categories. The Austin companies that made the list include: EESTore in Energy Storage Heliovolt [...]