Bazaarvoice unveils new headquarters
The 137,615-square-foot building will accommodate the company’s 600 employees in the Quarry Oaks business park in North Austin, with plenty of room to grow. [Built In Austin]
Numerous shutting down May 1
When Wood posted the announcement on the company’s blog Wednesday morning, several users commented they would have paid for the service, which has always been free. Some have asked that Numerous release its source code so they can run the program on their own machines, while others have suggested other companies may be interested in acquiring and reviving the service. [Built In Austin]
Bloomfire releases collab app for sales and marketing teams
Bloomfire SE applies the company’s trademark knowledge sharing architecture to sales and marketing, two disciplines born to support each other but often doomed to get in each other’s way. [Built In Austin]
Continuum Analytics hires 2 execs after 90 new employees in 2015
This week, the company announced Jon Shepherd as senior vice president of sales and Matt Roberts as vice president of product engineering. The analytics app maker reported more than 2.25 million downloads of its flagship product, Anaconda, in 2015. [Press release]
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Portlandia tags Austin with neighborhood guide spoof
In a preview for this week’s episode of the IFC comedy Portlandia, co-star Kyle MacLachlan, who normally plays the mayor of Portland, appears as a mustachioed Texan and offers advice on finding a cool neighborhood in Austin.
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