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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs.

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Code for America Hosts CodeAcross in San Antonio

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Think of this group as super heroes for the city of San Antonio. They’re a brigade of citizens seeking to solve the city’s problems through technology with an empathetic twist. San Antonio City of San Antonio Code for America CodeAcross Rackspace'

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WP Engine Opens an Office at Geekdom in San Antonio

SiliconHills

And WP Engine has just opened a San Antonio office at Geekdom, a technology incubator and coworking […] The post WP Engine Opens an Office at Geekdom in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. San Antonio Austin Wordpress hosting WP Engine'

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Easy Expunctions wins $100,000 San Antonio Investment Challenge in partnership with Geekdom

Austin Startup

Last Tuesday, we drove to Geekdom in San Antonio with a bus full of investors, mentors and entrepreneurs and chose Easy Expunctions as the winner of our $100,000 San Antonio Investment Challenge. Easy Expunctions leverages technology to assure our customers a clear and cost-effective solution to clearing criminal records.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

People said there’s no money in hosting. The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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San Antonio’s Rackspace is Grappling with a Ransomware Attack

SiliconHills

A ransomware attack at San Antonio-based Rackspace Technology has caused service disruptions for thousands of its customers. The ransom wear incident affected Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange Email business, which represents one percent […]. The attack began last Friday, Dec.

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San Antonio Tech Community to Host its First Startup Week

SiliconHills

For more than four years, San Antonio’s technology community has been percolating with excitement amidst a ground swell of support bubbling up to create a vibrant startup industry. First, Geekdom set up operations in downtown San Antonio at the Weston Centre and then moved to its own building, the Rand on Houston St.