Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Monday, August 31, 2015 Google Rolls Out Self Driving Cars At The Thinkery Google is ramping up its efforts to start rolling out its self driving cars in Austin, and has started to engage with local citizens to talk about the project. Google--which said in July that it would be expanding its self driving car project here--spent the Saturday at The Thinkery, where mayor Steve Adler (More info...) posted on Monday, August 31, 2015(Full story) Traxo Wins Travel Agency Dallas-based travel data aggregation provider Traxo said this morning that it has scored a big win with U.S. travel agency Travel and Transport. Financial terms of the win were not announced. Traxo said Travel and Transport has more than $2.6 billion in annual sales, and will use its data aggregation services to help capture and organize travel data for both corporate and leisure clients. Traxo offers up online booking tools, data aggregation, and trave (More info...) posted on Monday, August 31, 2015(Full story) Almalence Gets Funding From Intel Austin-based Almalence, a developer of computational imaging technology, said this morning that it has received an investment from Intel Capital. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Almalence develops software algorithms which run on image processors, used to increase the image quality of DSLR cameras. Almalence has its headquarters in Austin, but says most of its R&D actually goes on in Novosibirsk, Russia. The company's founders are Dmitry Sh (More info...) posted on Monday, August 31, 2015(Full story) FireHost Changes Its Name, Becomes Armor Richardson-based secure hosting provider FireHost said this morning that it has renamed the company as Armor. according to the company, the new brand name also includes the launch of its cybersecurity products as Armor Anywhere, and a change of name of its FireHost VPC service to Armor Complete. Armor offers up virtual private cloud and private cloud services, all aimed at customers requiring greater security to meet things like credit card PCI co (More info...) posted on Monday, August 31, 2015(Full story) YETI Coolers Names New CEO Austin-based YETI Coolers, the outdoor products startup behind the popular line of hard coolers and drinkware, has named a new CEO. According to YETI Coolers, it has named Matt Reintjes as its new CEO. Reintjes was most recently head of the Outdoors Product division of Vista Outdoor, and also has served at Danaher. YETI said that co-founder Roy Seiders will shift to the role of Chairman of the company. Reintjes is moving to Austin as a result of t (More info...) posted on Monday, August 31, 2015(Full story) |
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