The Austin Chamber of Commerce plowed through all the local startups and picked a 2012 A-List. Check out the slideshare above with their choices, or grab the PDF here. Inspired by Leonardo DiCaprio's "Black List" for hot film ideas, the chamber hopes that their A-List will become a similar guide for investors. Some standouts we know of from this list include TabbedOut, Invodo, Adlucent and FanTrail. For more information on Texas startups, visit Startup Texas. more ›

Keepstream started at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where a small team of three friends contributed to the Program board, planning events for the campus. In 2009, the trio had developed an app they called Corkshare, but were inspired by developing issues and challenges in social media to create a twist on the original concept. Thus, Keepstream was born. The group was lucky - they were accepted into the Capital Factory program here in Austin and they moved down here to perfect the application. So what is Keepstream? From their site: "Keepstream is a social media curation tool that helps organize tweets, Facebook posts, and website bookmarks into shareable, embeddable collection pages. Collections are useful for bloggers, marketers, or just about anyone who wants to curate the chatter from a conference or event, a news headline, or a hashtag chat." The tool helps you archive your messages and conversations (pieces from Twitter and Facebook than can disappear or that hard to track), and it also helps sort what people are saying about you - a feature that the company's founders think will make it appealing to marketers, PR professionals, and social media managers in small-medium size businesses. more ›

Most folks come to South by Southwest Interactive to meet people, promote their business, drink a little bit and maybe even learn a thing or two. But for 32 young companies, SXSW Interactive represents a head-to-head competition to be the next big thing. more ›

Social media standout Chris Brogan will deliver the keynote address at the Ubiquity Marketing unSummit, set for Sept. 3 at the Shoreline Grill. Brogan's latest book, "Trust Agents", demonstrates how to tap into the social networks to build influence, reputation, and profits. The twist for this conference, however, is that rather than making your message broad and globally focused, you can use social media to turn your small business into a local powerhouse. more ›

Four Austin companies and one California company were chosen Wednesday to participate in a summer startup program run by local technology incubator Capital Factory. more ›

Capital Factory is looking for Austin's most intriguing startup companies and is willing to put up $40,000 in cash and services for the best ones. more ›

Amid general economic bad news, a pair of Austin startups have managed to raise significant cash to boost their businesses. more ›

Co-sponsored with venture capital firm Austin Ventures, the meet-up also gave several Austin startup companies a chance to shine, as they set up booths in the back of the club to talk with interested applicants, partners, and investors. Among the startups grabbing attention were: more ›