Small World Labs announced it has added more than 50 new customers in the last nine months, surpassing the 100 customer milestone. Growth was present not only in the pace of new customer agreements, but also in the scope and size of organizations selecting Small World Labs for their enterprise social networking software and expertise. Established businesses and organizations are increasingly adopting social networking as it allows them to better understand, engage and serve their [...]
For all you Tweets out there, if you want the news items from AustinStartup fed to your Twitter feed, try: follow austinstartup For each new post, you will receive a Tweet with the news headline, and a tinyurl to the full story itself. Headline writing suddenly became much more important around here!
The tech community is under represented in each year’s Leadership Austin class. This is a great opportunity for leaders in the tech community, so please give it your fullest consideration. Here is some great information from Thom Singer. Thom is the director of business development for vcfo, and the author of four books on the power of business relationships. He is also a member of the 2008 Leadership Austin Essentials Class. Leadership Austin is currently [...]
Neverfail, software company that provides affordable continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions, today announced that the company grew by 61 percent during the company’s fiscal year ending March 31. Neverfail’s 2007/8 growth far exceeded market expectations for host-based storage replication, which IDC estimated at 25.4 percent growth over 2006. The overall storage replication market for 2007 was $2.66 billion worldwide with host-based replication accounting for 11.5 percent or $305 million, according to IDC1. “The host-based [...]
We’ve received about a dozen emails from people asking us what is up at itzbig. I know it’s hard to believe, but Jim McGovern doesn’t invite us to the strategy sessions. If you’re in the know, feel free to leave a comment. Anonymous or otherwise.
Tangoe announced that the company achieved a milestone of more than 750,000 mobile devices under management. Representing a dramatic acceleration in wireless-related new business, the industry-leading milestone was achieved in Q1 — a record-breaking quarter in which more than 50 percent of the company’s 33 direct and indirect closed sales engagements focused in part, or wholly, on enterprise wireless device management. Recent industry analyst reports revealed that the growth rate of wireless expense management (WEM) is [...]
During a presentation today at Software 2008, an event showcasing the most innovative software companies at the Interop conference, Spiceworks announced the third generation of its free, ad-supported Spiceworks IT Desktop application, which is designed to meet the IT and network management needs of small and medium businesses. The 3.0 version includes a new user interface called Network Glide™, which lets IT professionals rapidly flip through their network inventory in a manner similar to popular [...]
Not sure what Dewey (Minggl) is doing at Robert Scobel’s house, but whatever! The video is up right now, and it’s already had about 100 views in the first five minutes. Pretty cool. Nice job Dewey!
Last week for the first time ever, the number of unique visitors using the Firefox browser was larger than the number of visitors using Internet Explorer. Browsing the web is no longer a strategic effort for Microsoft anyway, as the company’s stated #1 goal is to own paid search.
Austin Ventures has set aside $50M for former Razorfish CEO Jeff Dachis to build an enterprise class social software as a service (SaaS) consulting and products business unit. This follows the same playbook as the earmarked funds for Elisabeth DeMarse who rolled up CreditCards.com, and Brian Sharples who rolled up the vacation home rental business with HomeAway.com. The price tag of $50M is kind of a red herring. The number really doesn’t matter, but you [...]
