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Tappforce Builds Mobile Applications for Some of The World’s Largest Brands
July 19, 2012 | Derrick YazwaThe mobile market is exploding in popularity. In some parts of the world, mobile internet usage has already overtaken standard desktop access. Whenever you leave your house, you’ll likely see most people around you with their eyes transfixed by … Read More
BeenEvaluated Provides ‘Amazingly Accurate’ Website Appraisals
July 16, 2012 | Derrick Yazwa 4Joshua Elizetxe knows a few things about appraising the value of a website. In fact, he sold his first website when he was only 14. He used that knowledge and experience to jump into the field of brokering website … Read More
StormWind Provides Live Online Tech Training Via HD Video
July 6, 2012 | Derrick YazwaOrganizations of all sizes struggle with determining the best way to provide their employees with technical training. Traditional classroom training can be expensive and time consuming–often requiring employees to spend days or weeks off site. Simply providing employees with … Read More
Pearson Is The World’s Leading Learning Company
July 3, 2012 | Derrick Yazwa 1We started AZTechBeat for one reason–we want to bring more attention to the local tech scene and the diverse group of companies that operate here. It baffles us that the scene is largely ignored by local and national press. … Read More
Haiku Makes It Simple To Bring The Classroom To The Web
June 27, 2012 | Derrick Yazwa 2The last few decades have seen internet technology completely reshape many industries. Whether it’s the music industry, newspaper industry, or dozens of others–changes continue to happen at a dizzying speed. However, the education field has lagged behind when it … Read More
Deployd Provides HTML5 Developers With Instant Backends
June 21, 2012 | Derrick YazwaDeployd was founded by Jeff Cross and Ritchie Martori to solve a problem that they had noticed during years of building applications for clients–the redundancy of building backends.
The apps they were building always needed the same basic features–user … Read More
Flatterline Harnesses The Power of Ruby to Create ‘Awesome’ Web Apps
June 13, 2012 | Derrick Yazwa 8Ruby On Rails is the dominant framework in use by web developers today. The open-source solution is incredibly popular because it aims to meet all the needs of overworked developers trying to build amazing projects–it’s simple, easy to understand, … Read More
Marketing Press Provides Powerful WordPress Solutions for Businesses
June 7, 2012 | Derrick YazwaIt’s no secret that WordPress is the most popular open-source software in the world. In fact, WP is used by 14.7% of the websites listed in Alexa’s “Top 1million websites”–and there are almost 74million blogs hosted on WordPress.com. WP … Read More
CO+HOOTS Hosts Event to Make Arizona THRIVE
June 4, 2012 | Derrick Yazwa 1CO+HOOTS is one of the best places in Arizona for coworking–hosting 16 businesses as well as a small army of freelancers and startups that call the spot their “office.” They’re focused on bringing members of the creative class of … Read More
LoopLogic’s Software Helps Companies Win With Content Marketing
May 30, 2012 | Derrick YazwaScott L. Mitchell, Stephane G. Legay, and Scott Cate founded LoopLogic in 2011 to provide the new generation of content marketers with an all-in-one media platform that provides real-time analytics and automation tools to help companies take their content … Read More