Famigo is expanding its efforts to help families discover appropriate mobile content by launching support for Apple iOS apps today. In July, Famigo introduced Family App Review, an interactive guide that enables families to search and sort for games, e-books and other apps. Today, families can now use Family App Review to discover, select and share favorite apps for both the Apple iOS and Android mobile platforms by visiting www.famigo.com. For many families, finding the [...]
Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced that IT professionals at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) can now manage and automate printer ink and toner purchasing directly within the Spiceworks social network for IT. The new social commerce feature will make it easier for the 1.6 million IT pros in Spiceworks to keep their printers up and running, while giving ink and toner suppliers access to more than $3 billion in refills every year. Spiceworks users, who are responsible [...]
mobileTech Thursday, by Steve Guengerich I just returned from GigaOM’s annual Mobilize conference, held Monday and Tuesday this week, at the UCSF Mission Bay conference center in San Francisco. With this week’s post, I wanted to focus on two sessions that caught my interest as a potential area of opportunity for Austin’s mobile entrepreneurs. The first session was a solo presentation by Mike Kuniavsky, CEO of ThingM, on the subject of “The internet of things [...]
Acknowledging its growing impact in hair care, the parent company of the textured-hair communities of NaturallyCurly.com™ and CurlyNikki.com™ has adopted a new corporate name: TextureMedia™, Inc. (www.TextureMediaInc.com), formerly known as The NaturallyCurly Network. “Our mission to create multiple offerings and communities, with consumer and professional focus, within the world of textured hair has evolved,” says Crista Bailey, TextureMedia, CEO. “We have become the go-to media platform empowering and connecting curly-, kinky-, and wavy-haired consumers, as [...]
Spredfast, a leading social media management system provider, today announced it has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by InterWest Partners. Also participating in the round is Austin Ventures, the lead investor of the company’s $3.6 million Series A round. Spredfast plans to use the funding to expand its industry-leading platform that helps companies better manage engagement and conversion across all major social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, blogs and Foursquare. “The [...]
If you are building a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company, there are some great resources for you courtesy of TechStars Cloud and Rackspace. I asked Jason Seats for a guest blog post on the subject. Jason is a founder of Slicehost (acquired by Rackspace) and also TechStars Cloud Manager. You have heard of TechStars in Boulder, New York, Seattle and Boston and now we have one here in our back yard. Two weeks ago [...]
Neusoft Corporation, the largest IT solution & service provider in China, and Appconomy, Inc. announced today plans to form a strategic alliance. By integrating the powerful Appconomy Platform for AppCommerce with Neusoft’s cross platform app environment, Appconomy will be able to power a new generation of commerce and community apps in the US, China, and globally. In connection with the alliance, Neusoft will become a significant minority shareholder in Appconomy and will license its cross [...]
This originally appeared on the Dachis Group blog. Anyone who can survive difficult parking, shuttle buses, lots of walking, scorching sun, and rain must value the experience of a large music festival. With over 70,000 people out to experience the Austin City Limits Festival, it’s a fantastic opportunity for brands to be associated with memorable experiences. The opportunity goes far beyond just getting your company’s name in the program and at the top of the [...]
Talk about timing. When a reminder about the upcoming Clean Energy Summit hit my inbox, I jumped at the chance to make the case for why Austin should be excited about this event. And while I’d be the first to advocate the benefits of a clean energy community, this isn’t a rah-rah session. Let’s look at what’s happening in clean energy to see why this year’s gathering should accelerate Austin’s clean energy future. The Economic [...]
mobileTechTuesday, by Steve Guengerich Yesterday, Austin-headquartered Digby announced that 7GeGe.com, leading Chinese specialty retailer of fashionable and contemporary apparel, had selected Digby to launch a mobile optimized website for 7GeGe.com before year’s end. Digby’s partnership is a microcosm of the greater opportunity that Austin mobile developers and app makers should be thinking about with respect China. At a macroeconomic level, there’s no surprise as to why China is generating more interest than ever. It already [...]
