SXSW Survival Tips from Those Who Lived Through It
SXSW is not an easy thing to survive. So much of it happens outside of the conference center and into the wee hours of the morning. How do you handle an event that pretty much goes on 20 hours each...
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States Work Harder to Attract Game Companies
Video games, as a business, are becoming so big, with so much money attached, that states are falling all over themselves to attract the companies that produce them. PaidContent says 21 states are...
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Job Moves at Apple, IBM and Salesforce.com
Apple plans 3,600 new jobs in Austin…IBM “re-balances” through layoffs… and Salesforce.com grows so fast, it doesn’t have time to build new offices. The post Job Moves at Apple, IBM and Salesforce.com...
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Dell Expands in Security, Lots of Hiring in Austin [Roundup]
Dell Expands Its Security Offerings with SonicWall Acquisition: Dell will acquire IT network security company SonicWall, whose 950 employees make next-generation firewalls and unified threat...
View ArticleDoes Overconfidence Help You Win Hackathons?
With three strong but silent types and one skinny loudmouth, the T3 team proved to have the ingredients to pull off a successful win at the App Hackathon at SXSW. The team of four produced an...
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Austin’s Game Industry Keeps Growing
Gaming and digital media grew faster than any other creative industry in Austin, with jobs in the sector more than doubling to 7,274 over five years ending in 2010. More importantly, the average salary...
View ArticleConsultant Sogeti USA to Hire 250 Tech Pros in 23 Cities
Technical consultant Sogeti USA plans to hire around 250 IT pros in 23 cities by the end of 2012. As part of a planned expansion, it’s already brought aboard 400 so far in 2012. The jobs will be across...
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A GM Recruiter’s Tips on Landing a Job
If you want to work for General Motors, but not live in Detroit, look toward Austin, Texas. GM’s global IT staff is expected to expand by about 10,000 in the next three to five years as it brings 90...
View ArticleGM’s Hiring, But Not 10,000 New People
Media reports that General Motors will add 10,000 more people as part of its efforts to insource the bulk of its IT operations turns out to be wrong. The company told Dice News that the widely reported...
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Austin Tech Companies Worry About Talent Shortage
The Austin tech sector’s growth between now and 2017 will be complicated by a thin pipeline of STEM talent. Today, technology companies contribute some $21 billion to the local economy, about 25...
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Dell and eBay Eye Hyper-Scale Data Centers
Dell is teaming upwith eBay to launch the Evergreen Innovation Center in a move to grab a piece of the hyper-scale data center market and leverage its existing enterprise offerings. The center is...
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In Austin, an Inexorable Shift from Hardware to Software
What’s New This Quarter While the future of Dell continues to be the subject of much speculation, the company is moving forward on the services front, providing a dedicated/private and hybrid cloud...
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In Austin, .NET, Java and JavaScript Are Hot
What’s New With both Dell and IBM still facing big changes — Michael Dell’s $25 billion buyout to take his company private finally took place in mid-September — the near future of the Austin area’s...
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IBM Plans Hundreds of Hires in Austin
IBM has opened a design studio in Austin and plans to add hundreds of jobs over the next five years. The company’s General Manager of Design Phil Gilbert called the studio “a broad ambitious new...
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In Austin, Everyone (Except Dell) Seems to Be Hiring
What’s New This Quarter Quarter 4 of 2013 was a vibrant one in Austin, beginning as Dell finally completed its $24.9 billion shareholder buyout. The newly private company is now setting out to cut...
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Austin Courts athenahealth’s More Than 600 Jobs
City and state officials are dangling an incentive package worth $5.6 million in front of health IT vendor athenahealth in return for creating 607 new full-time jobs in Austin, Texas, by the end of...
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Google Fiber Expands to Austin, Texas
Keep Austin weird, but give it more high-speed Internet options. Google Fiber’s next stop: Austin, Texas. That’s not a totally surprising decision: Austin, in no small part due to the yearly South by...
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athenahealth to Add 600 Jobs in Austin
Medical technology services provider athenahealth plans to expand into Austin, Texas, after state and local officials dangled a $5.5 million incentive package in front of it. The company says the move...
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Incentives Lure More Tech Jobs to Austin
The big tech job news in the Austin, Texas, area continues to surround Dell, which last year offered a voluntary separation package intended to weed out those who didn’t share its “passion and...
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Austin’s Top Tech Candidates Get Hired Quickly
What’s New This Quarter Nine months after taking Dell private, CEO Michael Dell is feeling buoyant that he no longer has to kowtow to Wall Street on a quarterly basis. His company is still the largest...
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