Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry |
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 Thursday, September 14, 2017 Embark Donates Over $10K To Harvey Relief Efforts Dog DNA testing startup Embark said today that it has donated over $10,000 to organizations helping animals impacted by Hurricane Harvey, including the Houston Humane Society and Austin Dog Alliance. According to Embark, the donations came as a result of an effort to donate 100% of its net profits on its consumer website sales between Wednesday, 8/30 to Sunday 9/3. $3,000 will be donated to the Houston Humane Society and $3,000 to the SPCA of Texas, wit (More info...) posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017(Full story) Texas Instruments Rolls Out Educational Robot Dallas-based Texas Instruments has rolled out a new, educational robot--its first--called the TI-Innovator Rover. According to TI, the new robot is aimed for use in classrooms in STEM programs, allowing students without any coding experience to learn how to control robots. According to TI, the new educational robots connect with its line of graphic calculators (such as its popular TI-84 Plus line), and are aimed at helping students learn STEM subject (More info...) posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017(Full story) Zix Buys Entelligence Messaging Server Dallas-based email security provider Zix announced this morning that it has acquired the Entelligence Messaging Server technology from B>>Entrust Datacard. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Zix, the acquisition will help strengthen its email encryption capabilities. Zix said Entelligence Messaging Server includes advanced message tracking, PDF statement delivery, high availability on-premises architecture and (More info...) posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017(Full story) Swirlds Scores $3M For Blockchain Alternative Dallas-based Swirlds, a developer of peer-to-peer, distributed ledger software that seeks to act as an alternative to Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Swirls, led by founder and CEO Mance Harmon, says it has created a "hashgraph distributed consensus platform" which it says can be used in gaming, online collaboration, financial services, and (More info...) posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017(Full story) |
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