As part Comixology's effort to raise awareness about the creator-owned digital comics via Comixology Submit, the startup has teamed up with indie fan favorite artist Shannon Wheeler to illustrate the insanity that is SXSW.
SpaceX's plans to build a commercial space port in Texas are likely to move forward, according to founder and CEO Elon Musk who took stage at SXSW.
There are a handful of TV brands that have wildly loyal fans that essentially buy whatever products or services that affiliated with it, including Oprah, NASCAR, and probably the most fun, the WWE. That said, it's really to their benefit to come up with a way to harness all the social activity from their stars into a single stream.
At SXSW, Uber CEO revealed the next stage of his battle plan: quadrupling the size of his staff in the next year, growing from 200 to 800 members, and continuing global expansion.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, spent an hour enthusiastically exhorting a crowd at SXSW to use HTML5 and build applications on the Open Web Platform. He also offered a host of pithy comments on the Web's history and future.
Rather than take time to explain in detail what his forthcoming book Without Their Permission is about, Reddit co-founder and all-star entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian decided to call his congresswoman about bad cybersecurity bill CISPA during his presentation at SXSW today.
When it comes to 3D imaging cameras, such as those used in video games and for 3D printers, your options are kind of limited unless you want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on multiple pieces of equipment. This fact alone makes the $1,800 Lynx A Camera from Austin-based startup Lynx Laboratories all the more impressive.
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Guest Post Whether you think of it as some sort of bloated travesty, or what some call the Super Bowl of technology gatherings, SXSW is in no way like what it once was just 5 years ago.
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Guest Post Silicon Valley is still the gold standard for tech entrepreneurship. However, Austin is now emerging as a new destination of choice for tech startups as well as larger enterprise companies -- for a variety of economic and cultural reasons.
In a push to grow beyond its San Francisco roots, ride sharing service SideCar has purchased Austin, Texas-based competitor Heyride.
You may not see huge numbers of black founders or developers -- especially those with double-X chromosomes -- in Silicon Valley. That's something that Black Girls Hack is aiming to fix.
The 2013 South By Southwest Interactive event is likely to bring hundreds of smart, plucky startups to Austin, Tex. next month, but co-working space/accelerator program Capital Factory wants at least one to stick around.
South by Southwest, the burgeoning, Austin-based geek/tech/music/movie festival, is expanding to Las Vegas.
At South By Southwest Interactive, we got to sit down for an interview with OMGPOP chief revenue officer Wilson Kriegel. We talked at length about the small game studio’s meteoric rise to blockbuster success with Draw Something — and about …
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The South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences have given geeks a lot of social inroads over the last few years. They brought us blogging, then microblogging; they were a launchpad for Twitter and Foursquare. Thanks to those web services, meeting at …
Thor Muller and Lane Becker have had a fair amount of luck in their time. The Get Satisfaction co-founders chalk their company’s founding to serendipity, in fact.
Turns out, they want the rest of us to get lucky too. And …
We caught up with Ford at South By Southwest last week to chat about the connected car phenomenon.
After all, at CES earlier this year, high-tech car tech was the talk of the show. Currently, Ford’s in-car computer system, called …
At South By Southwest Interactive, we caught up with three entrepreneurs who have chosen Singapore as the geographical launch pad for their startups.
The tech community stateside has been buzzing about this Asian tech hub, and VentureBeat wanted to get …
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