Austin Startup

Mass Relevance Hits a 25 Billion Milestone

Bryan Menell — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:23:42 +0000

Mass Relevance, the technology leader in social curation and integration, today announced that it has passed key company milestones as demand accelerates for social experiences that engage users and boost brand loyalty. As of May 15, the company’s platform has integrated 25 billion pieces of content into dynamic visualizations on digital displays ranging from TV and second screens through billboards, stadium displays, websites, mobile apps, conference centers and in-store displays.

Mutual Mobile Launches GlassSim, Invites Everyone to Dream Big for Google Glass Apps

Bryan Menell — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:34:34 +0000

Mutual Mobile today unveiled GlassSim, a free, easy to use prototyping tool designed to encourage people to dream big about what can be accomplished with Google Glass. In a few short minutes users can mock-up fields of view from the perspective of someone wearing Google Glass – no technical expertise or coding required.

Austinpreneurs as Celebrated Athletes

Larry Chiang — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:20:08 +0000

Bob Metcalfe wants tech founders to be heralded like athletes. I see a few tactical steps that will help. I'll break them into some non snarky categories and avoid "inside baseball" jargon that is inherent in my style of writing...

9W Search Reveals Partnership with The Street

Bryan Menell — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:34:03 +0000

TheStreet, a leading digital financial media company, announced today an agreement with 9W Search, Inc. of Austin, Texas to provide visitors of The Street.com with access to its innovative financial answer engine.

Gluu integrates Toopher for 2FA

Bryan Menell — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:45:41 +0000

Gluu, an open source access management company, announced today that it has open-sourced the code needed to support Toopher, a location aware two-factor authentication mechanism, in its enterprise SSO and access management platform. With Toopher, Gluu’s enterprise customers can offer their employees, partners, and customers an excellent user experience for strong authentication with single sign-on to cloud, mobile, and social applications using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, the soon-to-be standardized profile of OAuth 2.0.

Time Warner Has Free WiFi HotSpots in Austin

Bryan Menell — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:25:55 +0000

Time Warner Cable today announced that the company has begun deployment of TWC WiFi™, a citywide WiFi Hotspot network for its customers in Austin, Texas. Access to the TWC WiFi™ network is free to Time Warner Cable customers with Standard Internet or above and to Time Warner Cable Business Class Internet customers. Additionally, free Trial and Prepaid Access options starting as low as $2.95/hour are available on TWC WiFi™ for those not qualifying for free access.

ATC’s CEO Summit in Two Weeks

Bryan Menell — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:52:07 +0000

Two weeks from today, Austin Technology Council (ATC) will host its third annual CEO Summit, for one full day at ACL Live at The Moody Theater. The Wednesday, May 8 agenda features a stellar set of local technology leaders who have built national reputations and global brands, yet remain very personally committed to the success of the region.

ATI Companies Raise $35M in Q1

Bryan Menell — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:28:55 +0000

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), in the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), and its companies have had a very successful start to 2013, highlighted by capital raises in excess of $35 million. In addition, ATI member companies and alumni continue to receive widespread media coverage for their impact on the development of emerging technologies across several industries, earning several accolades in Q1.

Austin, I will teach you to be Asian

Larry Chiang — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:30:04 +0000

I wanted to call this article, "How to self-fund using 650 steps" but I didn't want the knee-jerk reaction of 'OMG, that sounds like a lot of work'. So, I'll swerve away from my norm of grittily tactical blog posts meant to serve engineers who are hacking their 1st $900k in sales. Instead, I will head in my default direction: hiLarryAss.

Omni Water Solutions Adds $4M More

Bryan Menell — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:11:14 +0000

Omni Water Solutions, a provider of highly automated mobile water systems for water treatment and re-use, announced today it has secured $4 million in additional equity from existing investors, led by Austin Ventures, and has added former FTS International CEO, Marc Rowland, to its Board of Directors. The new funding enables the company to add to its HIPPO product line for strategic customers in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale.