Tallwave has a new CFO and promotes three to VP

Tallwave, a Scottsdale-based early growth stage venture services company, announced Tuesday that Vickie Wittie has been appointed to be their new Chief Financial Officer. Wittie has served as CFO at a number of other tech companies and has experience leading financial teams from a startup phase through the initial public offering. Read: Tallwave Capital raises … Read more

Bosse Tools receives $200K to build its production

One of the oldest tools — the shovel — is changing its look and, in the process, is digging up some cash from local venture funds to support its designers. Bosse Tools, a Scottsdale-based shovel and tool company, recently received a whopping $200,000 from the Maricopa County Manufacturing Venture Fund, bringing the startup to a running total … Read more

Startup Broken Window to release Grave on PS4 and XBOX One in 2015

Prepare to scream and be completely terrified by ghoulish and gruesome creatures, as Grave, an open world, procedural survival horror game, will be available on PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One simultaneously in 2015. This year has been one fast-paced, energy drink-induced, lack-of-sleep, but infinitely rewarding, year for the husband and wife team and co-founders … Read more

Apriva’s new mobile security system becomes NSA worthy

Apriva, the leading provider of secure end-to-end wireless transaction and information solutions, announced today a new milestone for the company with its software solution MESA VPN Gateway being added to the National Security Agency/Central Security Service’s (NSA/CSS) Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) Approved Products List. This distinction indicates that the VPN Gateway underwent a comprehensive government … Read more

JDA Software fixes its identity crisis, gets a facelift, and is ready to deliver

JDA software, the leading provider of end-to-end, integrated retail and supply chain planning and execution solutions for more than 4,000 customers worldwide, is full steam ahead and overhauled its image to appeal to the next generation of execs and customers. Let’s face it JDA hasn’t updated their logo in forever, their outfacing messaging is meh, customers have lost … Read more

Google exec breaks world skydiving record jumping from space

For all of you adrenaline junkies out there who skydive and jump from extreme heights, there is a new kind of rush…space jumping. Alan Eustace, a Google vice president, broke a world record for parachute jumping after diving from the stratosphere with the help of Tucson-based Paragon Space Development Corporation. [youtube]http://youtu.be/T711k05nJmw[/youtube] Eustace was carried into … Read more

Startup Avirtek combats hackers by scanning your cyber-DNA

Every time you use a computer, you leave behind a record of what you do, what programs you use and plenty of personal information. Tucson-based startup Avirtek wants to harness those digital fingerprints to help protect you. They call it user cyber-DNA. The company, born in a University of Arizona laboratory, offers software solutions to … Read more

Growth hacking with your data – AZ Tech Beat Lunch and Learn October – tix limited

Last month at AZTB Lunch and Learn, Matthew O’Brien, Founder Mint Social, was the super ninja with his advice on how to build out one piece of content into a full-blown campaign using 10 plus social media platforms, as well as boosting your influence online. O’Brien said content needs to be organized into three buckets … Read more