HomeAway, the Austin-based leader in the online vacation rental marketplace, today announced its acquisition of Paris-based Homelidays SAS. Homelidays operates Homelidays.com, the largest pan-European for-rent-by-owner vacation rental or “self-catering” site, featuring more than 40,000 listings. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition further strengthens the company’s global leadership position in this rapidly growing $48 billion segment of the travel industry. HomeAway now features more than 360,000 worldwide properties and operates the number [...]

SailPoint today announced it more than doubled its installed customer base during 2008, adding prestigious Global 1000 companies including five of the world’s top 10 banks, and some of the world’s largest insurance, healthcare provider, manufacturing and telecommunications companies. Coupled with a $6.5 million Series C funding, the company is poised for continued growth and international expansion in 2009. “2008 was an incredible year for SailPoint. We delivered an award-winning product, expanded internationally and gained [...]

Here’s what’s going on around Austin today. NetQos is announcing support for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Bazaarvoice is at the shop.org conference this week, and their new product BrandVoice has won an award for innovation. Some Austin locals are announcing PreDevCamp today, which will take place in over 30 cities around the world exactly 1 week after the Palm Pre is launched. SpiceWorks is embedding social networking features into it’s free IT management [...]

Apartments.com today announced the acquisition of Apartment Home Living, an Austin-based social media apartment Web site distinguished by a “live for fun” community experience, proprietary lifestyle matching and local living guides to help renters find their perfect place to live. By acquiring Apartment Home Living, Apartments.com is able to deepen its footprint in the online apartment rental search category and further extend its reach to a broader audience of renters. “The acquisition of Apartment Home [...]

Remember when InformationWeek was coming to town looking for startups to profile in Austin? They’re in the can, and available here. As a sample, here is the profile of SmallWorldLabs.

Not a ton of news for a Monday, but here’s what is happening around Austin Spiceworks co-founder Jay Hallberg is on a panel moderated by Peter Kafka titled Advertising Meets Social Networks at the AlwaysOn “OnMedia” conference in New York. Motion Computing is partnering with Sig-Tec on mobility and security solutions for clinical workflow. Healthcare is a big vertical for Motion. Bazaarvoice can count Timex as it’s latest customer for Ratings & Reviews. StoredIQ is [...]