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Austin’s HotSchedules puts more employees, more space on its schedule
Posted on August 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
When it comes to hiring, Austin-based HotSchedules.com Inc. is on a hot streak. Before the end of this year, the company aims to add 10 more employees. Twenty-three new hires are set for 2011. Among the new employees will be sales executives, account managers, QA specialists and software developers. You may send your resume to […]
Digby adding 11 jobs at Austin HQ now, plotting more hires next year
Posted on August 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
Dig this, job seekers: Austin-based tech company Digby is in the midst of expanding its local workforce by more than 30 percent. Digby, a developer of mobile commerce applications for retailers, currently has 11 job openings in Austin: senior Java developer (two positions), platform product manager, sales executive, senior BlackBerry product developer, software architect, creative […]
Software company Accruent targets 50 employees for new Austin office
Posted on August 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
Accruent Inc., a California-based provider of real estate and facilities management software, has set up an office in Austin with the goal of employing 50 people here by the end of 2010. On its website, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company lists 14 job openings at its Austin operations center. The new office already has 25 […]
Austin’s Caringo ringing up more jobs
Posted on August 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
Job seekers may want to keep an eye on Austin-based software company Caringo Inc. The company has more than half a dozen job openings now, including director of marketing, lead technical support engineer, senior software architect/engineer and senior software quality engineer. But the number of available positions is bound to rise after Caringo’s recent $5 […]
Touch International could have the Midas touch when it comes to hiring
Posted on August 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
Bouncing back from the depths of the recession, Austin-based Touch International Inc. has shifted into growth mode once again. In 2008 and 2009, the touch-screen manufacturer cut a total of 30 jobs in Austin. But in the past six months, the company has added 50 jobs here, bringing its Austin workforce to 148. And more […]
United Football League may field team in Austin
Posted on July 5, 2010 Leave a Comment
Austin is under consideration for a franchise of the United Football League. In a recent Twitter posting, UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue (photo below left), a former executive with the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, identified Austin as a potential expansion market, along with San Antonio; Hawaii; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Salt Lake City. The […]
$4.8M in funding enables software company Zenoss to add jobs in Austin
Posted on June 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
Flush with a new round of $4.8 million in venture capital, IT management software developer Zenoss Inc. plans to add 10 employees to its Austin office. Among the 20 or so positions to be filled at the Austin office of Zenoss as well as its headquarters in Annapolis, Md., are software designers, sales representatives and […]
Sports TV leaders Chris Ohlmeyer, Lou Kusserow set up production company in Austin
Posted on June 24, 2010 Leave a Comment
Two powerhouses in the sports TV business have formed an Austin-based production company. Chris Ohlmeyer (at left in photo), a longtime producer and director at ESPN, and Lou Kusserow (at right in photo), executive producer for Tulsa, Okla.-based Winnercomm Inc. from 2007 to 2010, have banded together to create Ohlmeyer Kusserow Group LLC. Ohlmeyer Kusserow […]
Pearson scores nearly $470M deal to run TAKS testing program in Texas
Posted on June 24, 2010 2 Comments
Pearson’s Assessment and Information Group has secured a $468.4 million, five-year extension of its contract to operate the TAKS testing program for the State of Texas. The contract renewal, awarded by the Texas Education Agency, takes effect Sept. 1. Two other companies, Nashville, Tenn.-based RANDA Solutions Inc. and San Antonio-based eMetric LLC, bid on all […]
Austin startup Workstreamer plots ‘very aggressive’ growth
Posted on June 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
Equipped with millions of dollars in funding from Austin Ventures as well as several thousand users of its technology, Austin startup Workstreamer Inc. aims to streamline how business professionals absorb the flood of information coming their way every day. “We want to enable business professionals to stop searching and start listening to businesses that they […]
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