Texas Technology Industry Doing OK; ATI Loses Another Director
Trade association TechAmerica reported a 0.6 percent decline in Texas during the last three months of 2008. The rate of job loss in the nation's private sector was 1.3 percent during that same period.
The negative swing comes just one year after Texas' technology job growth was the largest in the United States. Texas has more high-tech workers than any state other than California.
In other technology news, the Austin Technology Incubator's clean energy division lost its second director in less than a year. Reed Benet, who began working at ATI in December, said he is stepping down to launch his own ventures.
Benet came to the clean energy division after Joel Serface left last May to join California venture capital firm Perkins Caufield & Byers.



