mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich I attended Dell World 2011 last week and it was pretty remarkable on a number of levels. On one level, I reflected on Dell’s maturation as an enterprise. While the majority of what we write about in AustinStartup.com are new hardware and software ideas being brought to market, it’s easy to forget a couple of things. One, that Dell itself – presently 41st on the Fortune 500 list of largest [...]
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 [...]
Pre-registration has ended, but you can still walk up and pay $10 cash at the door. Everything is cool at tech happy hour tonight; the a/c, the drinks, and of course the people. When: Thursday August 4, 2011 from 6pm – 8pm Where: Molotov Lounge, 719 W Sixth Street Sponsors stripedshirt.com is fan-wear for women, kids and babies. Fun, fashionable 2 color combination striped T’s to let the rest of us fans show our colors, [...]
mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich As I was on my way to pick up my Monday morning coffee at 6am, I had an audio double-take when I heard this exchange on the morning news report between the KUT anchor and a reporter from the Austin Business Journal about chipmaker Altera Corp’s announced intentions to move some R&D operations to Austin. KUT anchor: “Why did they choose Austin for this?” ABJ reporter: “Oh, because there is [...]
SmartCamp is an exclusive event aimed at identifying early stage entrepreneurs who are developing business ventures that aligned with the IBM Smarter Planet vision. This mentoring and networking events put entrepreneurs in touch with investment firms, serial entrepreneurs, academics, marketing, communications, and technology experts that can help accelerate the solutions of startup companies to market. I’ll be speaking about Social Business to the budding entrepreneurs tomorrow, just in case you happen to be there. If [...]
Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. Today it was announced that IBM is acquiring the company for an undisclosed sum. Over the years the company has attracted around $167M in venture funding from such organizations as Highland Capital Partners and Accel Partners. After Bazaarvoice CEO Brett Hurt left Coremetrics the company relocated its headquarters to the bay area, but [...]
IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed (but you can speculate in the comments). Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Organizations are struggling to find ways to simplify their business operations to better reach partners and clients, [...]
