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 [...]