Embedding video in WordPress is always risky, but here we go. The CoreTrace team takes the stage at DEMOFall in San Diego.

The $5 early bird tickets are gone and there’s a handful of the $7.50 admission tickets left. If you try to pay at the door it will be $10, but you’ll be admitted on a space available basis if we start to exceed the rated capacity of The Marq. There’s been so much going on this week with the launch of new companies at the TechCrunch50 and the DEMO conference. Come join us at happy [...]

Here’s a summary of other Austin tech news. Austin Ventures Promotes Craig Milius to General Partner. Craig is on the boards of CreditCard.com and HomeAway, and has worked with Newgistics since its inception. Recently, he spoke at Texchange on topic of technology as a service. Zilliant Signs UK Company Travis Perkins. Travis Perkins is the leading supplier of building materials in the UK. Zilliant’s pricing optimization software is making a significant bottom-line impact. Sailpoint Announces IdentityIQ [...]

Here’s a video of OtherInbox founder Josh Baer on stage at the TechCrunch50 conference. We’ll try the embed code below, but if that doesn’t work you can find the video here. Josh was also kind enough to hook up loyal blog readers with beta accounts at http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/austinstartup.

TechCrunch announced their list of 52 companies that are launching at the TechCrunch50 this week. Our highly trained eye for Austin-based companies caught only one, OtherInbox, which we’ve been beta testing for a few months. If you don’t have a beta invite, you can at least wear the T-shirt. We hope to have a Q&A with company founder Joshua Baer soon, along with some beta invites for you.

Early in the Summer Itzbig employees started hitting the streets, and word was that the VC funding was announced, but when it came time to write checks the pen ran out of ink. No word on if it was Rho Ventures or Sevin Rosen that backed out of the funding committment. Apparently Jim McGovern wrote a letter, according to Cheezhead. It is with great regret that I am writing to inform you that itzbig will [...]

Next week will see over 100 new products lauch between DEMO and TechCrunch50. The companies launching are always super secretive until the actual event itself. DEMO did announce attendees yesterday, and here’s the one’s were interested in, because they’re in Central Texas: CoreTrace MicroStaq OpenACircle (Dallas) Rudder (Houston) We’re looking forward to field reports from our readers!

September 11th is the Austin stop of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-Up Tour which will be held at the Austin Music Hall. It could be interesting. Check out the link for details, and how to RSVP. Perhaps we’ll do some live bloggin from the event. Are you going?

The Austin Tech Happy Hour on Thursday September 11th will be one you won’t want to miss. Author and BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy will be signing her new book, and SeedStage.tv will be filming their premier episode. At the door it will be $10 but there are early bird tickets available right now for $5. There are only a handful left, however. If you can’t make it, we’ll be republishing the Twitters of registered guests [...]

This week’s Q&A Wednesday is with an Austin-based company that debuted at DEMO 08, Voyant.  Voyant has just released the latest Web 2.0 version of its free do-it-yourself financial planning platform that gives consumers greater control over their financial health.  We recently sat down with CEO David Kaufman to find out more about the company and what the future holds. What is Voyant? Voyant is a free online financial planning solution that lets consumers create [...]