Chaotic Moon, the world’s most proven mobile application studio, announced today the launch of Chaotic Moon Labs, a new division created to drive mobile innovation and serve as the center of Chaotic Moon’s intellectual property strategy. Steering the direction of the Labs will be whurley (William Hurley), co-founder and former CTO of Chaotic Moon Studios. Replacing whurley as CTO is key talent and Apple R&D veteran, Stephen E. Smith. “The Labs were created to capitalize [...]
I work with a lot of consumer startups that are dealing with location-aware information. From a programmer perspective, it’s just plain hard. Not only is it difficult to find a great source for quality geo data, but then you typically want to correlate it across multiple social systems (Foursquare, Yelp, etc). Some of my favorite code monkeys have just made this problem a little easier. Infochimps is pioneering a somewhat new category, named data-as-a-service. Today [...]
We’re excited to be part of Austin Startup Week with an awesome social event on Thursday, September 8th from 6pm – 8pm at Molotov Lounge. It’s a great opportunity to bring together the entrepreneurs, marketers, angel investors, UX experts, designers, developers, venture capitalists, and big data enthusiasts from around Austin (and perhaps beyond). Online Ticketing for Austin Tech Happy Hour Sept 2011 powered by Eventbrite Sponsors You’ve heard the hype, now it’s time to get [...]
The popular Evernote is coming to Austin. A few weeks ago, I met with Rich Warwick, Evernote’s new vice president and general manager for Austin products, where I learned that Evernote was going to open a development lab in Austin, and that they will be aggressively looking for developers here in town. Mobility & Mac are core-focus of the Austin lab. I, being a mobility person, was pretty excited about the news: 1) I am [...]
In the “you knew this was coming” category, Bazaarvoice filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of it’s stock today. The news is being covered by TechCrunch and The Statesman. The company is one of the fastest growing in Austin, going from 70 employees in April 2007 to over 600 today. In conversations with company co-founder and CEO Brett Hurt, he has always characterized the company’s financial condition by saying that they could stop growing [...]
Every year thousands of panels are submitted to the SXSW Interactive conference. Either lots of people have some really interesting things to say, or they are hoping to get picked to for the free pass. Whichever the motivation, voting by the public makes up about a third of the scoring. And that leads to lots of lobbying on blogs all over the world! At Dachis Group, we’re pitching 16 panels, which you can find here. [...]
Not just for Texchange members, this is a pre-season kickoff happy hour at the Tap Room. For those who have not been to Texchange it’s a statewide organization for executives in the technology industry, with chapters in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Some of Austin’s most successful tech executives are members, and come to our roundtable discussions and dinners. This is a great resource for entrepreneurs. If you’re curious, show up, say hello, and meet some [...]
Macheen, a global cloud service provider for connected devices, today announced it is live in the United States, with mobile broadband connectivity via the Nationwide Sprint Network. Available in Europe since February, Macheen’s comprehensive turnkey platform enables connected laptops, tablets and other consumer electronics device makers to not only to reach across continents, but also tap into different mobile network technologies. For example, in Europe private-label services of device makers, powered by Macheen, use [...]
mobileTechThursday, by Steve Guengerich What a week, huh? First Google buys Motorola Mobility. Then, slipped in there quietly, Time Warner Cable buys Insight. And finally, HP announces that it’s getting out of the PC business, ceding mobile to Apple and letting Dell battle Lenovo and the other APAC manufacturers for what’s left of the laptop business. Not much air left for announcements like the reportedly $40 million acquisition of the UK’s largest coupon site by [...]
Socialware, the leader in social media compliance and engagement, today announced that it has secured $7 million in Series C funding led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. Socialware empowers financial services firms to engage with customers and generate sales channel leads, while maintaining 100 percent compliance with organization and industry regulation. The funding will be leveraged to enhance the industry standard Socialware platform and extend the company’s market leadership serving the financial services industry. “As [...]
