Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Texas Technology Firms Make Inc. 500 A number of Texas companies in the technology sector have made Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. According to the Inc. 500 listing, Sugar Land-based mass notification provider TechRadium was the highest ranked Texas technology firm listed, with 5,761% in three year growth, and $8.7M in revenues. Some of the other technology firms from Texas on the list:
posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010(Full story) Starmount Snags Oracle Vet As President Austin-based Starmount, a developer of digital signage products, said today that it has named Jerry Rightmer to President of the firm. The company said that Rightmer was most recently at Oracle, where he was Vice President of Retail Application Strategy. He has also served at 360Commerce. Starmount also said Rightmer has almost 20 years of retail industry knowledge and technical expertise, and will oversee the firm's product vision and technology strategy. posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010(Full story) Dell Claims Gains In Reducing Packaging Waste Round Rock-based Dell said today that it has eliminated use of about 18.2 million pounds of packaging, since 2008, as part of its corporate responsibility efforts. Dell said the gains came from reducing the size of product packaging and increased the amount of recycled content in its packaging, and is aimed at making its product packaging more convenient for customers and less impactful on the planet. The firm said recycled content in its packaging is now at approximately 32 percent, and (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010(Full story) RF Monolithics Gets Investment From Murata Electronics Dallas-based RF Monolithics announced today that it Murata Electronics North America has purchased a nearly $700K stake in the firm, as part of a collaboration agreement. According to RF Monolithics, Murata purchase 533,000 shares of its common stock at $1.31 per share. RFM said the deal covers exploration on how the two firms can cooperate to provide additional products and services to their customers. RFM also said the investment increases the firm's access to its collateralized banking (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010(Full story) Buffalo Updates DriveStation Austin-based Buffalo Technology, the developer of networking accessories and storage products, said Monday that it has refreshed its DriveStation line of storage products. According to the firm, the firm has introduced DriveStation Axis, a single drive product, and has refreshed its DriveStation Quad 4-drive, RAID product, and updated its DriveStation Duo dual-drive storage products. The firm said its DriveStation Quad supports up to 8TB and connects via USB 2.0; the DriveStation Duo supp (More info...) posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010(Full story) |
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