Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Friday, February 27, 2015 UTSA Gets $9M For Cloud Computing Institute The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received $9M in an investment to create a new, Open Cloud Institute, focused on creating degree programs around cloud computing and big data, the school said Thursday afternoon. According to UTSA, the effort is being funded by a total of $9M in initial gifts and in-kind investments, with donations from Rackspace, AMD, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Seagate, and the Open Compute Project and the OpenStack Foundation. $4.8M of the fundi (More info...) posted on Friday, February 27, 2015(Full story) Pluck Sold To Sprinklr Austin-based social media and social networking software developer Pluck, which was most recently part of Demand Media, has been sold to New York-based Sprinklr, the companies said Thursday. Financial details of the sale were not announced. Sprinklr said it would use the buy to bolster its enterprise social technology. Pluck was founded in 2003, and had been acquired by Demand Media in 2008 in Full story) OpenDoor Targets Dallas With Instant Home Sale Marketplace Looking to sell your home in Dallas, nearly instantly? A Silicon Valley startup, Opendoor, said this week that it is looking to bring near instant home sales to the Dallas market, as part of an expansion by the company. Opendoor, which is based in San Francisco, offers up an online site where homeowners can input their address, enter some other information on their property, and instantly get a purchase offer from Opendoor and its investors for that h (More info...) posted on Friday, February 27, 2015(Full story) FEX DMS Acquired By DealerSocket FEX DMS (Finance Express), a developer of automotive dealership management software whose development office is in Richardson, Texas, has been acquired by Dealersocket, the two said on Thursday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. FEX DMS develops automotive dealership management systems for the used car industry. posted on Friday, February 27, 2015(Full story) |
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