Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Wednesday, May 8, 2013 Bazaarvoice, HomeAway Help Investors In Midas List Texas investors might not be getting much attention in the latest Forbes Midas List, the publication's annual ranking of the top venture capitalists--but, two Texas firms did help three of the investors on the list this year. Austin's Bazaarvoice helped put Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital at number 12, and former Texas Mike Maples of Floodgate at number 25, for its recent IPO; fellow Austin com (More info...) posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2013(Full story) PeopleAnswers Picks Up HoneyBaked Ham Dallas-based human resources software developer PeopleAnswers has picked up a new customer: food reatiler HoneyBaked Ham Company of Georgia. PeopleAnswers said that HoneyBaked has selected the firm's cloud-based HR software, to help automate its recruiting process. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. PeopleAnswers' software is used for personality assessment, prescreening, and hiring efforts by companies. posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2013(Full story) BRS Labs Seeks Funding Houston-based Behavioral Recognition Systems said today that it has opened up a new, preferred funding round to help support the company's research and development. The firm did not say how much it is looking to raise in its funding efforts, but said it had raised $15M in growth funding in 2012. The announcement is unusual for a company, as the SEC usually frowns upon pre-announcements of funding round efforts. The firm said the round is open only to a (More info...) posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2013(Full story) NTT Data Sets Plano As North American Headquarters Japanese IT services firm NTT DATA said today that it has selected Plano, Texas, its new new, North American headquarters. The firm, which provides IT administration, application development, business process outsourcing, and other IT services to companies, said it selected Plano due to an "extensive" technology services talent pool and IT community. NTT Data has 60,000 employees, with around 18,000 supporting its North American clients. posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2013(Full story) Dell Aims At Commercial Airline Operators With Airbus Deal Round Rock-based Dell is hoping to put a Dell laptop in the cockpit of every Airbus airliner, with a new deal announced today with Airbus. According to Dell OEM Solutions, the arm of Dell which helps deliver Dell's computer to OEMs, its Latitude laptops are being used with the Airbus Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) product for the Airbus A320. An electronic "flight bag" lets pilots access flight documentation, manuals, flight maps, and other information on a (More info...) posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2013(Full story) |
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