Snoball Inc. today announced the launch of a revolutionary online platform designed to affect change through viral social giving. Snoball is the first to offer a user-friendly web interface enabling anyone to define and automate donation parameters, making giving social and easily replicable. The underlying foundation of the company’s approach is the “Snoball” effect. Through snoball.com, users anywhere can create momentum around donations for their favorite charities. When a user creates a Snoball account, they [...]

Registration closes today for Austin Tech Happy  Hour. You can save a few bucks by registering today, or you can pay $10 at the door. When: Thursday, December 1st from 6p – 8p Where: Molotov Lounge Sponsors Equitable Commercial Realty | ECR is the premier commercial real estate leasing and sales firm in Austin, Texas with expertise in office, industrial, manufacturing, warehouse, retail and medical property types. Our goal is to exceed your expectations. To [...]

mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich Tech start-ups, at least in my experience, have a notoriously conflicted relationship with traditional business networking groups, like our city’s Chamber of Commerce. The conflict comes because, on the surface, what each needs from the other is hard to come by. The Chamber needs financial support (membership fees, etc.) and volunteer time – both of which start-ups can ill afford. Conversely, the tech start-up needs targeted access to early adopter [...]

This guest blog post was written by Jacqueline Hughes. Lately there has been a lot of buzz in Austin around recruiting talent to our city. The Austin Technology Council recently took to the road with 30 CEOs in hopes of bringing some top technology talent our way from California. I get at least an email a week from friends and companies unable to find developers to join their startup. Occasionally, I know someone who is [...]

It’s hard to believe the end of the year is almost here! This will be our last event for 2011, and it will be on the 1st of December. We’ll sneak this one in before all your holiday parties get into full swing. Come begin your holidays by celebrating with all your friends from the Austin technology community. Since this event is at a bar, you must be 21+ in order to attend. All attendees [...]

WP Engine, the WordPress hosting and security service for bloggers and small businesses, today announced the closing of their Series A round of venture financing. The $1.2 M investment was led by Silverton Partners from Austin, TX, and includes angels Eric Ries, Loic Le Meur, Dharmesh Shah, Jeremy Benken, Bill Boebel, Rob Walling and others. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, also participated with a strategic investment. Automattic today also announced VIP Support for Web Hosts, [...]

SceneTap, a technology and nightlife company that gives consumers real-time info on the local bar scene, announced today that its launch in the Austin market will take place on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. SceneTap has also relocated its headquarters to Austin, though the company will maintain a strong Chicago presence. A free app for iPhone, Android and the Web, SceneTap uses anonymous facial detection technology to provide consumers with real-time information on the local bar [...]

Not a month goes by that I don’t speak with an entrepreneur that is busily writing code, planning for the day they are going to unleash it upon some lucky customer. That fortunate soul will certainly find that this hand-crafted website solves all their problems. The only problem with this whole story is that the entrepreneur in this story has never actually spoken with one of these fabled customers. Even today, many people are writing [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Bradley Markham, founder of TweetTV. They’ll be pitching at the Social TV Summit in New York this week. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? tweetTV (www.tweet.tv or www.tweetTV.com) is real-time social TV. It’s part TV discovery tool and part TV communication platform. We’ve created a real-time, localized TV Guide that helps users discover what to watch on their TV by ranking currently airing programs based on their [...]

How would you like to launch your startup into the stratosphere at the hottest of all hot tech conferences, Southby? Who wouldn’t? Well, it won’t happen if you don’t get off your tail and apply this week. This is your chance to get seen by thousands of interested people, investors, bloggers, press, and media of all kinds. The fourth annual SXSW Accelerator will take March 12-14 at the 2012 SXSW Festival in Austin Texas. A [...]