Bazaarvoice announced that Fujitsu has launched the Bazaarvoice social commerce platform with Ratings & Reviews™ at www.shopfujitsu.com. Now consumers and business professionals can easily access the authentic and credible opinions of their peers as they research Fujitsu LifeBook® notebook and Stylistic® tablet PC purchases, allowing them to make the smartest decision about the mobile computer that best fits their needs. By offering this valuable content directly on its eCommerce site, Fujitsu improves the shopping experience [...]

Pervasive Software, an emerging leader in next generation analytic applications, today announced the general availability of Pervasive DataRush™, a revolutionary high-performance, embeddable software platform for the next generation of data-intensive processing and analytics. This transformative technology addresses the gap between rapidly proliferating multicore processors, exploding volumes of data and the lack of analytic software to fully exploit industry hardware and efficiently extract useful intelligence. By delivering dramatic performance improvements over current technologies, early users of [...]

You may have read Thom Singer’s blog post titled “Hey Congress, You Don’t Know Jack!” where he was probably the first to announce that Jack McDonald was forming an exploratory committee to evaluate a run for U.S. Congress in the Texas 10th district, right here in our backyard. Congress is full of attorneys, and Jack actually started his career as an attorney, but he’s been growing businesses and employing people for probably longer than he [...]

Adlucent, a leader in performance-based search marketing, today announced the appointment of two executives to its management team. The company has promoted Accenture veteran Jon Armstrong to the position of CEO, and appointed former Trilogy executive Ashwani Dhar to the position of Senior Vice President. In their new roles, they will help manage and drive growth for the firm, which has grown revenues by 150 percent in the past year by helping some of the [...]

Many cities have done their own StartupWeekend ever since it was first launched by Andrew Hyde.  Now the model is open source, and anyone can run their own StartupWeekend and leverage the experience and knowledge from previous events. There will be over 50 simultaneous StartupWeekend events all around the world April 3-5, 2009. It’s called Startup Weekend World. That is coming up pretty soon! Check out the new website for StartupWeekend that just launched last [...]

Boundless Network, a technology-enabled branded merchandise distributor, today announced a transnational expansion into Canada and the addition of more than 30 sales professionals to the company during the first quarter of 2009. Austin-based Boundless Network achieved more than 15 percent growth during the first three months of 2009. Boundless Network attracts top industry professionals with its award-winning professional development and next generation technology platform. The company increased revenue 675 percent in 2006, 94 percent in [...]

This star-studded panel (if you’re a geek) debated the merits of creating your startup in Austin, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, or any other city in the world. Conjunctured’s John Erik Metcalf moderated the panel, which featured (in the picture below), Robert Scoble, Mike Maples Sr., Kaiser Kuo, and Penelope Trunk. Having a panel discussion at 10am on a Sunday might not be too difficult for some, but when there are tons of parties going on till [...]

Austin-based Phurnace Software and Hyper9 were both named as “cool companies” by Gartner Group in the IT Operations and Virtualization market. Each year Gartner Group names several companies in their research areas as “cool” and making great progress in their space. According to the Gartner report: The growth of virtualization and the emergence of Web 2.0 and cloud-computing architectures are resulting in repercussions across a range of virtualization technologies and management tools, but several vendors [...]

SailPoint today announced a suite of new deployment offerings for its identity governance solution, SailPoint IdentityIQ, including a virtual appliance, a hosting option and a menu of managed services, to streamline and simplify the process of buying, implementing and managing identity management solutions. These new options, in addition to SailPoint’s conventional hardware appliance and software licensing offerings, give customers a broader range of deployment environments to fit their specific situation, providing immediate ROI and better [...]

The applications for Capital Factory for the 2009 year are rolling in, but many entrepreneurs are asking for some extra time to prepare their applications. You can apply to the program using the online application, and the new deadline is April 3rd. If you look at the application form, you can see that you don’t need a massive business plan to apply.  Become a fan of Capital Factory on Facebook, or get your questions answered [...]