When we saw the Slacker executives at happy hour they made no mention of this impending announcement. With the addition of Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and EMI Music to their existing relationship with SONY BMG, Slacker has nailed partnerships with the big four. They also announced that users will be able to transfer the personalized stations on the current desktop application to the new player with one click, and refresh them via the [...]
We wrote about ON Networks back in July as they were cranking up the pace at which they were creating original, short-form video content for the internet. One of the cool things about the content was that it was in HD, you could download it via iTunes, and shortly after the iPhone introduction they tuned their content for the iPhone format. Today they announced to the public one way in which they intend to make [...]
Cleantech Friday by Steve Guengerich If you are like me, whenever you’ve heard the word “China,” your eyes have slightly glazed over in the past. “Yeah, yeah” your brain says “I know there’s nearly 1.5 billion people living there and I ought to be thinking about how to get my products (or services) in-country.” But then, the next second, your brain says “but I’m still trying to figure out how to get in front of [...]
Boundless Network, a venture-backed promotional products distributorship, announced the acquisition of Dallas-based Footprint Marketing. Footprint has been recognized for the past two years as one of the top 10 fastest growing distributors in the promotional products industry. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, nor were the revenues of Footprint, however Boundless CFO Gary Kofnovec was quoted as saying that they are seeking other acquisitions of distributors with revenues between $2M and $10M. Boundless [...]
Today Babble Soft announced their Baby Say Cheese product, which is a web-based photo album and family tree application. The company was founded by Austin entrepreneur Aruni Gunasegaram, who was the founding CEO of Isochron. About the new product Aruni said, "Friends and family will no longer have to click through numerous, often uncaptioned, often similar pictures of baby. They can go to one place and see the pictures specifically chosen to illustrate memorable events [...]
If you register before Noon today you can avoid the lines at check in. Austin Energy will have a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle for you to look at. The event info is below. CleanTX Forum Grid Connected Vehicles: Will Electric Vehicles Soon Jam the Streets? September 19, 2007 The chances of vehicles plugging into the nation’s electric grid in the coming decade have never looked better. The Toyota Prius has proven to auto industry and [...]
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Today we have a field report from guest blogger Steve Harvey, who just got back from the Going Green 2007 conference, created by Tony Perkins of Red Herring fame. Attending the Clean Energy Venture Summit 2007 here in Austin in May helped me personally make the decision to move from high tech to cleantech. And, as Bryan noted last week (Austin Companies in "Going Green 100"), the Austin area is home to numerous leading emerging [...]
CoVi Technologies, an Austin-based company focused on creating an integrated, comprehensive video surveillance system, has raised an additional $4.1 million in equity financing. The company, which has raised nearly $60 million in equity financing since 2003, designs, develops and manufactures high-definition, television-quality systems, as well as offering a systems-based approach to high-definition video surveillance. Given the size of this round, and the fact that each of the last few rounds have been around $15 million, [...]
Indy Gill, the CEO of Austin-based UnwiredNation.com was interviewed recently over at PodTech.net. In case you missed it, the video is below.
