Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Favor Expands To Washington, D.C. Austin-based, on-demand pick up and delivery service Favor has expanded into its 14th city, saying this week that it has opened up services in Washington, D.C. According to Favor, users making requests for delivery on its iPhone or Android app can now get delivery in the nation's capital. Favor said it will offer up first time customers a free delivery using the promo code DISTRICT, as part of the launch. The company is venture backed by S3 Ventu (More info...) posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015(Full story) GameStop Plans To Hire 28,000 For Holiday Season Grapevine, Texas-based videogame retailer GameStop said this morning that it plans to hire 28,000 people to help staff the company's stores for the holiday season. The company said the seasonal associates at the company is a 14 percent increase over the company's hiring for the same period last year, 2014. The positions at GameStop begin October 18th and run until January 8th, and are available at in-store locations, for consumer electronic technician (More info...) posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015(Full story) InforcePRO Raises $4M For Insurance Software Austin-based InforcePRO, a developer of software for the life insurance industry, said Monday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The funding was led by LiveOak Venture Partners. InforcePRO says it has developed a insurance policy monitoring software, which helps insurance carriers and distributors better monitor the policies they have issued to policyholders. The company was founded by Cameron Jacox and Karan Kanodia, and says it now has ove (More info...) posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015(Full story) Civitas Learning Raises $60M Austin-based Civitas Learning has raised $60M in a funding round from private equity investor Warburg Pincus, the company said Monday, to help ramp up product development and acquisitions at the company. Civitas Learning, which develops software for colleges and universities to enable students to better plan their courses and programs, is headed by Charles Thornburgh. Civitas Learning said that Emergence Capital Partners, Austin Ventures, Reth (More info...) posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 (More)(Full story) CyrusOne Swizzles CFO Dallas-based data center operator CyrusOne said late Monday that it has swapped its CFO, replacing current CFO and Chief Administrative Officer Kimberly H. Sheehy, with Gregory R. Andrews. CyrusOne said Sheehy is leaving the company, although she will stay on to complete the company's 10-Q filing for the quarter ended September 30th. Andrews was most recently CFO of Ramco-Gershenson Proerties Trust, where he had been since 2010; he also served at Equi (More info...) posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015(Full story) Company Targets Dallas-Fort Worth With Personalized Traffic Reports Stuck in Dallas traffic? A developer of a personalized audio news and information service, Rivet Radio, says it has started offering up geo-targeted, audio traffic reports, which taps into a users' current location and provides real time speeds, travel time, road incidents, and more via audio. The auto telematics provider--based in Chicago--said it has partnered with Radiate Media, to deliver the on-demand audio traffic reports to Dallas-Fort Worth (More info...) posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015(Full story) |
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