So they’re technically not really an Austin company, but Rackspace announced some pretty major second quarter revenues today. $84M and growing each quarter puts them in the $350-$400M annual revenue range. Rackspace joins the small list of private companies that are announcing revenue numbers, even though they are not required to do so. Usually this means they are conditioning the market for some sort of financial event. Given the wave of liquidity lust that’s going [...]

Cleantech Friday by Steve (and Lauren) Guengerich After last week’s visit with Peggy Liu and her first-person account of the cleantech opportunities and challenges in China, I sought a similar first-person account of the other big Eastern hemisphere emerging power, India.    ME (last week):  “I want you to go ‘on assignment’ for me.  Take pictures of everyday energy and sustainability-related issues where you live/study/travel…things like the water supply, vehicle emissions, recycling, sustainable architecture, electric [...]