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 [...]