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If you’re watching the financial markets today, Dell is all over the financial news with their quarterly earnings disappointment. The company reported a 9% growth in revenue to $15.64B but their earnings fell slightly short. The company posted $0.34 per share in the previous quarter, up from the same quarter last year of $0.27 per share. But the street was expecting $0.35 per share on less revenue. The stock had run up 9% during the [...]

Freescale is kicking off their Green Design Challenge for the Americas. The challenge encourages students and embedded system engineers to utilize Freescale products to create green products. "One of the greatest challenges facing the engineering community is to increase energy efficiency in everything we create," Freescale Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer told a crowd of engineers at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Americas in June. Regional winners will receive cash prizes and first place regional [...]

Today in New York, BSG Chairman Steve Papermaster and New Paradigm founder Don Tapscott held a news conference to announce the acquisition of New Paradign, which is now becoming part of BSG Alliance. Steve announced the news itself, and the history of the growing relationship and friendship with New Paradigm and Don. Don continued the discussion on the state of corporate America as he sees it. Most of his themes are concurrent with his writing, [...]

Austin-based BSG Alliance announced that they are acquiring New Paradigm, a business innovation group founded by Dr. Don Tapscott in 1993. If his name sounds familiar, but you just can’t figure out where you know him from, he is a leading speaker and author of Wikinomics, The Net Generation, The Digital Economy, and many others. BSG Alliance has had a pretty amazing first year of operations. In May the company raised $20M from Hummer Winblad [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Mickey Millsap, Co-Founder and Director of uShip, Inc., the first and largest online marketplace for shipping services. The company has received venture financing from DAG Ventures and Benchmark Capital. Give us the elevator pitch for uShip, Inc. for those that might not be familiar with the company? uShip is the first and largest online marketplace for shipping and moving services. uShip members list anything they need shipped in a variety of [...]

The Austin City Council is considering a third year of funding for the University of Texas Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). This Thursday the council will consider the funding programs which would give $125K to the bioscience incubator and $200K to the wireless incubator. The city’s previous investment of $250K from mid-2006 through mid-2007 was leveraged into $7.4M of investment into ATI wireless companies, according to the ATI. The wireless division of the ATI recently spearheaded [...]

Surgient announced record 3rd quarter results today. The Austin-based company sells virtual lab management applications that enable companies to test software applications. The company announced a record number of new deals in Q3, including it’s first ever seven figure deal. Bookings grew 3x over the same quarter last year, and the company is on track for 60% revenue growth over last year. Surgient has been around for a while now, and has raised a pretty [...]

Austin Ventures, long known as THE venture capital firm in the Southwest, is becoming the Season of Caring firm for the second year in a row.  The firm is asking Central Texans to match the AV $50,000 challenge grant for Season for Caring, the Austin American-Statesman’s charitable campaign that raises money to help needy families and the nonprofit agencies that serve them.  In an interview with the Statesman, Kim Paschall, director of communications for AV [...]

Movies have the Oscars. Television has the Emmys. And now ON Networks™, in partnership with South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival, will recognize the best in digital entertainment with the Greenlight Awards™, a competition aimed at discovering the next great, original and episodic digital series. Submissions will be reviewed from December through February 15, 2008 culminating at an exclusive event during SXSW 2008, March 7-15. Detailed information about submission criteria and requirements, celebrity [...]