Today’s guest blogger is Dana Duran, the director of vhr, HR Solutions from vcfo. Dana and her team of experienced HR professionals work with companies of all sizes to strategize and implement human resources strategies and solutions. She can be reached at 512-450-6560 or dduran@vcfo.com. In today’s recessionary economy, many business owners and leaders are focused on near-term tactics that will enable them to survive the current market turbulence. But what if we could instead [...]
Zilliant, an Austin-based provider of price optimization and management, today announced the availability of Zilliant Precision Pricing Suite (ZPPS) on the Force.com AppExchange from salesforce.com. In September of 2008, Convio released news about their product offerings on the Force.com platform and now Zilliant is the latest Austin-based company to adopt that platform. ZPPS increases companies’ operating profits by supplying optimized prices for every item on every sales transaction. ZPPS price recommendations are intuitive and easy [...]
N-trig, providers of DuoSense™ technology, combining pen and capacitive touch in a single device, announced today that they have completed a fund-raising round of $24 million from investors, including Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners and Microsoft Corp. With this new round of funding, N-trig plans to continue working with leading OEMs to create multi-touch notebooks and convertible computers for the mainstream marketplace. The company’s multi-touch technology will enable OEMs and ISVs [...]
Site Controls today announced the introduction of a new Site-Command Controller form-factor, a 1U energy management controller for chain retailers and bank branches. The rack mountable 19” 1U controller provides commercial buildings with a more data center-compatible energy management system (EMS) for IT, facilities and operations managers. Site Controls is currently conducting field trials of the 1U controller with general availability in January 2009. While providing traditional intelligent EMS functionality by managing energy-consuming equipment such [...]
Appozite, a software company dedicated to integrating e-commerce and the social web, today announced the launch of ZiteFeed, a web-based service delivering retailer feeds directly to e-commerce shoppers. Currently in invite-only early access phase, ZiteFeed’s RSS technology easily enables any e-commerce retailer to deliver timely updates on products, events, and promotions to interested consumers. Users can receive product updates on personalized start pages like MyYahoo! and iGoogle, as well as in feed readers such as [...]
Guest blogger Tim Wright is the principal of WrightResults, and blogs at CultureToEngage. Today he has some great information for us about the value and necessity of employee engagement in a startup. You’d think employee engagement’s meaning would be clear, even if quite a few people don’t know it. It’s probably not that they don’t know it; more likely they don’t have a mental file folder labeled “Employee Engagement.” That’s why when I answer someone’s [...]
We’ve been getting an increasing number of comments here on the blog, which is awesome. I choose not to have to approve every comment that gets posted, and instead implemented a really great CAPTCHA plugin. Despite that I get probably one, sometimes two spam comments per day usually related to gambling, pr0n, or little blue pills. So either some really clever people have figured out how to OCR the CAPTCHA, or there is a real [...]
It seems like just yesterday that GameWager moved their company from Houston to Austin to be closer to our gaming ecosystem. But it’s been almost a year. We featured them in a Q&A back in April. Since then, they’ve made solid progress on their product, and gave a fantastic demo at the Beta Summit at Innotech. Now the company has raised more money from their existing investors, and convinced advisor Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, [...]
Now that the new year is here, everyone is certainly hopeful and optimistic about the funding environment as it relates to startup technology ventures. The most common theme that I’m reading is that there is a big expectation that once in office, Obama will initiate some sweeping stimulus legislation that will regain consumer confidence and jobs. I don’t follow politics that closely, but from the news snippets that I do read, economic stimulus is the [...]
