We’ve been hearing rumors that eZee, one of the Austin Emerging 100 and a member of the Austin Technology Incubator, is ceasing operations. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but we’ll keep you posted if we hear something official.

Many of our readers have participated in the Moximity beta program ever since the launch, and it’s appearance in the iTunes App Store. Now the company has launched the companion website. You can check in at locations now from your laptop, and modify the radius of your search to see your friends. Depending upon your location on the map, you’ll see advertisements that are location-sensitive. The site is also integrated with Yelp, so you can [...]

HomeAway, Inc., the world’s leading vacation rental marketplace, today officially broke ground for its new Gold-level LEED-certified offices under construction at 1011 W. 5th St. The four-story, 86,000-square-foot mixed-use building is a development of Schlosser Development, and will also house modern home décor store West Elm and other retailers. The project represents Schlosser Development Corporation’s fourth phase of a five-block area at the intersections of Fifth and Sixth Streets and Lamar, dubbed the “Market District.” [...]

Thom Singer is the director of business development for vcfo, inc. He is also the author of three books on the power of business relationships and networking. He can be reached at www.thomsinger.com. Have you heard? The international economy is not doing great. One cannot pick up a newspaper, read a website or hear a broadcast without stories about how the downturn in the economy is affecting everyone from Washington to Wall Street to Main [...]

On the opening day of the inaugural SpiceWorld 2008 user conference, Spiceworks announced that the user base for the industry’s first free crowdsourced IT management application for small and medium businesses has doubled to more than 500,000 in just nine months – making the Spiceworks IT Desktop the world’s fastest growing IT management application. In addition, Spiceworks announced it has doubled the number of advertisers running campaigns to its growing community of IT professionals. “Spiceworks [...]

Austin Ventures, fresh off the close of $900M for a new fund, announced the commitment of up to $75 million of equity capital for the creation of AVRON Partners, Inc., a new supply chain services acquisition and strategic business development company. The new organization has been formed in partnership with Ronald T. Sorrow, co-founder and former CEO of RoadLink USA and former CEO of CSX Intermodal. Mr. Sorrow will lead the new organization as its [...]

Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich In his new book “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World,” Don Tapscott talks about a new generation “bathed in bits.” The research in the book identifies eight “net gen” norms that Don goes on to examine and extend into discussions about the coming transformation of institutions and society. Like any great major transformation, seeds of this change were planted years before. It was nearly a decade [...]

Rackspace is in Austin today hosting an event at Austin City Limits, complete with BBQ lunch! We didn’t really hear about this event ahead of time, so we couldn’t help them promote it. Don’t they know who we are? (totally kidding) For future reference, Rackers, keep us in the loop. Despite that, every mover and shaker in the Austin tech community seems to be at the event and twittering. Robert Scobel even came to Austin for [...]

Small World Labs, an Austin-based provider of enterprise social networking software and online community building expertise, today announced a partnership with one of Hollywood’s most successful writers and producers, resulting in “Showbizzle,” a unique form of Internet entertainment that blends traditional broadcast storytelling with the two-way conversions enabled by social media. “We have seen many transformations in media from print to radio, radio to TV, TV to DVD, etc.,” said Charles Rosin, executive producer/showrunner of [...]

Austin Ventures (“AV”), one of the nation’s leading venture and growth capital firms, announces the acquisition of three companies to launch Port Logistics Group (“PLG”). The investment was made in partnership with Robert Stull, a leading executive in the transportation logistics and distribution services industries. Mr. Stull will lead PLG as its President and Chief Executive Officer. With revenues of approximately $100 million at its launch, PLG becomes one of the leading nationwide providers of [...]