Mutual Mobile today announced their move to a new headquarters in Austin’s Capitol Tower Building to support the company’s rapid expansion in the US market. Having formerly occupied three different historic buildings in central Austin, the new 40,000 sq. ft. office space consolidates all Austin employees into a single location, with enough additional capacity to double staff size within the next 12 months. According to a recent survey, Austin now leads the nation in terms [...]
Two of my favorite companies have now combined forces. Today in my email I received a message from the founder of Capital Factory company Keepstream. I will re-post it here for you. Congratulations to everyone involved! Keepstream is joining Infochimps! We are excited to announce that Keepstream has been acquired by Infochimps, leading API provider and data marketplace! Keepstream co-founders Jim England, Tim Gasper, and Huston Hoburg are joining Infochimps in order to help them develop exciting new [...]
Today marks the 3rd Capital Factory Demo Day! About 300 investors, entrepreneurs, and press have shown up to see the five companies that have gone through the program this year. Watch the live stream here! Here is a brief summary of the five companies that went through the program this year. StoryMix Media Taking advantage of the trend of personal video exploding everywhere, StoryMix is helping people preserve their video memories. The company makes creating [...]
Austin entrepreneur Justin Jensen has been getting some great press lately for his new camera accessory company. Cinetics™ is launching a professional-grade yet lightweight camera slider, CineSkates™, which allows filmmakers to capture stable, high-resolution video footage without lugging heavy gear. CineSkates™ combines cutting-edge skateboard technology with the flexible GorillaPod Focus™ Tripod, allowing the amateur or seasoned filmmaker to achieve fluid camera movement in space-constrained environments where traditional camera sliders, dollies and cranes are too cumbersome. [...]
Austin Technology Council, along with Austin’s technology leaders, made a commitment at a May 2011 CEO summit, to take the best of our city live to the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas to recruit top technology talent. Today, the Austin Technology Council proudly announces two Top Talent events in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, the evenings of September 13 and 14. Over 30 Austin area technology CEOs will represent their companies live, talk with candidates, [...]
Guest post by Jacqueline Hughes, who has been working tirelessly to organize Austin Startup Week next week. It’s less than a week away from Austin’s first Austin Startup Week! When I started putting this together, I wasn’t sure I would be able to pull this all off. I decided to knock out as much as I could without raising money from sponsors, just in case I blew it. My goals were to recruit investment, talent, [...]
