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Amazon Announces New Tech Hub With 800 Jobs

  It may not be an HQ2. But Amazon is still going big in Austin. After years of ramping up operations on the city’s north side at the Domain, the ecommerce super power has announced plans to open a new tech hub in Austin with 800 tech jobs to accompany it. Amazon says it has […]

As Austin’s Tech Scene Explodes – Are We Still As Weird As Ever?

Walking distance from the pink dome of the Texas Capitol building, there were whiskey samples, tamales and Nerf guns. The Virtual Reality crowd talked Augmented Reality. The millennials in YETI shirts and the gray-haired post-hippies in psychedelic vests racked up points in a 3-D shootout on Space Pirate Trainer. And then there was Tim Porter, […]