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Thursday, January 22, 2015 Sparefoot Boosts Hiring, Again Austin-based Sparefoot, the online self storage marketplace, continues to grow rapidly--and said today that it plans to hire yet another 30 employees at its call center. The company said it is looking to hire those 30 employees via a "speed dating" event for the company on February 11th, to grow its customer service team from 75 to 105 members. Sparefoot has been in quite a growth tear, and moved into new (More info...) posted on Thursday, January 22, 2015(Full story) Inova Labs Names Operations VP Austin-based Inova Labs has named a new operations VP, to head up the company's manufacturing, supply chain, and facilities. Inova Labs said it has appointed Dale West as Senior Vice President of Operations, for the company's oxygen therapy medical device manufacturing. West has previously served at Philips Respironics, Dynamics Inc., and Frito-Lay, and has served as Vice President of Global Operations and Supply Chain for Respironics before it was a (More info...) posted on Thursday, January 22, 2015(Full story) MakerSquare Acquired By Hack Reactor MakerSquare, the software coding school which operates in both Austin and San Francisco, has been acquired by fellow coding school operator Hack Reactor, the two said Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Hack Reactor operates its own set of computer programming classes. MakerSquare will continue to operate independently of Hack Reactor, but will switch over to Hack Reactor's Javascript programming curriculum. M (More info...) posted on Thursday, January 22, 2015(Full story) BRS Labs Sells Patents Houston-based Behavior Recognition Systems (BRS Labs) which develops artificial intelligence software, said it has sold some of the intellectual property and patents owned by the company to Avigilon. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. BRS Labs said the sale includes a portion of its intellectual property associated with its legacy products. BRS Labs says it is developing artificial intelligence software used for for video, intellig (More info...) posted on Thursday, January 22, 2015(Full story) |
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