Around Austin-Top 25 Austin Employers. Top 25 list selected from the "Austin Business Journal" July 3-9, 2026 pp18-91 "Austin-Area Largest Employers, RANKED BY LOCAL EMPLOYEES." See ABJ for the full list of 50 and much detail. Image from RM2244.COM archive "Blues on the Green" June 10th 2026. The Top 25 are; HEB 27,721 employees, Tesla 16,500, Ascension Texas 16,200, St. David's Healthcare 13,259, Amazon 11,000, Apple 10,000, Dell 7,348, IBM 6,000, Baylor Scott & While Hea

From Austin Business Journal, Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms "ranked by amount raised since inception." #1 Vista Equity Partners # of Companies invested during 2025 12, #2 Peak Rock Capital 5, #3 8VC Not Available, #4 Gigafund 2, #5 Core Industrial Partners 4, #6 Blue Sage Capital 5, #7 Tritium Partners LLC 10, #8 Escalate Capital Partners 7, #9 S3 Ventures 30, #10 Sante 30. See the complete list and details ABJ June 5-11, 2026 pp18. Image of the Frost Tower home

Around Austin-Zoox Robotaxi is a "autonomous robotaxi designed for ride-hailing with a bidirectional design, meaning it has no conventional front or back...built for autonomy and lacks a steering wheel or pedals for human operators. It operates using a suite of sensors, cameras and AI.." It is now "driving in popular ride-hailing neighborhoods like West and East Sixth, downtown, East Cesar Chavez, Riverside, and the Rainey Street district...To start, rides will be availabl

Around Austin-Commercial Real Estate-Industrial Parks-According to the "Austin Business Journal" [February 27-March 5 2026, pp15] the Austin Metro Area has 21 large industrial parks. Leading the pack is Tech Ridge with 1.9 MMSQFT, followed by Kyle 35 Logistics Park 1.5, Innovation Business Park 1.4, NorthPark 35 1.3, 130 Crossing 1.2, Rutland Business Park 1.0, Buda Conference Center 0.97, Expo Business Park 0.96, Springbrook Corporate Center 0.95, Plum Creek Logistics Cente

Around Austin-Business-Top Ten Accounting Firm Offices in Austin-"RANKED BY THE NUMBER OF CPAS IN THE AUSTIN OFFICE AS OF NOV. 1, 2025" [Source Austin Business Journal February 13-19 2026 pp18]. RM2244.COM image above, the building on West 6th Street that houses PWC-the highest ranked with 145 Austin-Based Certified Public Accountants (CPAS), followed by Ernst & Young with 112, Maxwell Locke & Ritter 111, Deloitte 94, KMPG 85, RSM 56, Cherry Bekaert 45, Armanino 36, Atchle

Around Austin-Austin Business Journals "Largest Austin-Area Employers" from ABJ October 17-23, 2025, ppA16. Images are RM2244.COM archives of the new in 2024 HEB located at Texas 290 and Nutty Brown Road [May 16, 2024]. #1 Employer in the Austin Area is HEB, 27,271 local employees, followed by Tesla 21,191, Dell 13,000, St. David's Healthcare 12,639, Ascension Texas 12,635, Amazon 11,000, Apple 10,000, Baylor Scott & White 6,000, IBM 6,000, Samsung 4,500, AMD 4,400, Applie

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Around Austin-Friday March 7th 2025 opening day at SXSW. See https://www.sxsw.com for details. See below for more. Signage at the...

Around Austin-Downtown snapshots from the Capitol Area. Above the omnipresent construction crane-a fixture for more than a decade. See...

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Around Austin-Workers put some finishing touches on the exterior of the tower at West 6th and Guadalupe Monday January 8th 2024. ...

Around Austin-An Eastern sunrise view from above the fog in Spicewood near Bee Creek Road Sunday January 7th 2024.