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Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Favor Expands In Houston, Dallas Austin-based Favor, the mobile delivery app startup which recently raised a seed funding from Tim Draper and Silverton Partners, said today that it has expanded its delivery cities, launching in Houston and expanding its coverage area in Dallas. The startup--founded by Zac Maurais and Ben Doherty--lets users easily order everything from restaurant orders to video games for delivery via its team of "runners". The company said the service is now av (More info...) posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2015(Full story) Joinem Names Former Overstock.com Exec As CTO Dallas-based Joinem, a new startup offering up group buying services to consumers, said today that it has named former Overstock.com executive Padmakiran Guttkonda as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Guttkonda was previously Vice President of Engineering at Angie's List, and prior to that served as VP Software Development at Overstock.com. He also had served at Tomax Corporation. Joinem said it is developing a community-powered retailer wh (More info...) posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2015(Full story) Bigcommerce Snags Former Groupon COO For Board Austin-based Bigcommerce, which develops e-commerce software for small- and medium-sized retailers, said this morning that it has named Kal Raman, the former COO of Groupon, to its board of directors. Raman is currently CEO of SolutionStar, and also has served at Amazon and Drugstore.com. Bigcommerce said Raman will help the company's executive team with scaling the business. The move comes as Bigcommerce has started a big international expa (More info...) posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2015(Full story) Gravitant Enhances Cloud Software Austin-based Gravitant, which is led by Mohammed Farooq, has rolled out a set of enhancements to its cloud brokerage software to make it easier for its customers to deploy cloud-based software. Gravitant said it has added the ability to design and publish complete services--such as backup, security, monitoring--rather than having to configure and assembly individual components. The company calls its new capability "solution prints" -- a play on the i (More info...) posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2015(Full story) |
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