Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Monday, March 8, 2010 WhiteGlove Gets $7.7M Austin-based WhiteGlove House Call Health, a firm which operates a service which delivers health care to a person's home or work, said Monday that it has raised $7.7M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Hidden Lion Partners. WhiteGlove said the funding will go towards expansion beyond Texas. WhiteGlove currently serves Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. posted on Monday, March 8, 2010 (More)(Full story) Gowalla Hits Android, Signs Travel Channel Austin-based Gowalla, which develops a location-based social networking service, announced Monday that it has launched a new Android native application, and also tied into The Travel Channel. Gowalla previously only provided iPhone and web versions of its service. The new app is free, and available in the Android Market. Gowalla also said it has signed a new agreement with the Travel Channel, where it will integrate content from the network's Food Wars series, with its service. Financial (More info...) posted on Monday, March 8, 2010(Full story) National Instruments: $1M To Medical Device Startups Since 2008 Austin-based National Instruments said today that the firm has awarded more than $1 million in software, support, and training to various medical device startups since 2008. NI said that it has awarded 59 grant recipients with its technology, including its NI LabVIEW software, as part of its program to help very early stage medical devices startups. National Instruments gives up to $25,000 in software and services to startups in the medical device area. posted on Monday, March 8, 2010(Full story) AirStrip Names VP San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies, a developer of mobile remote patient monitoring software, said today that it has named Nancy Hudecek as its Vice President of Clinical Excellence and Risk management. Hudcek, who is an RN, was at the Harvard Risk management Foundation, and has also served at CareGroup and Private HealthCare Systems. posted on Monday, March 8, 2010(Full story) Rice University Ties Into The Planet Houston-based IT hosting provider The Planet announced today that Rich University is receiving free access to 50 servers at the firm, as part of its "Sand Castle" effort to spur job creation. The Planet had announced in January that it would be giving away free servers to individuals and entrepreneurs, to attempt spur new job creation. The Planet said that Rice University students will gain access to its servers, starting with students in the Rice Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of (More info...) posted on Monday, March 8, 2010(Full story) ACS Extends Los Angeles Parking Contract Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services said today that it has been awarded a bid with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, to provide parking citation processing and collections services. ACS did not announced the size of the contract, which is for five and a half years. ACS said it has provided those parking citation services to Los Angeles for the last 27 years. posted on Monday, March 8, 2010(Full story) |
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