Arizona tech cos win gold and top honors at Stevie Awards

Local favorite GoDaddy is bringing the gold to Arizona after winning best Online Sales Team in the 2015 Stevie Awards. Three other Arizona tech-based firms, Revana, LawLogix and Nextiva also brought home top honors. This is GoDaddy’s fourth consecutive year of recognition by The Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. GoDaddy acts as business consultants … Read more

32 startups advance in Venture Madness

This round of brackets have closed leaving 32 of the original 64 startups from around the Southwest to compete head-to-head to win their share of $50,000 in 2015 Venture Madness. From here, it’s down to the final 16 companies who will compete in a live-demo event held between March 4-6, 2015. Jonathan Ariano, chairman of … Read more

Mitel acquired Tempe software company OAISYS

OAISYS, a Tempe-based call center software company was acquired by business communications giant Mitel Monday. “Mitel is a natural fit for OAISYS as we look to expand and grow our product range and reach,” said Brian Spencer, OAISYS CEO. Mitel, which is based in Ottawa, has a large regional operation in Mesa. Spencer, now the … Read more

Page.ly Acquires Competitor BlogDroid

Page.ly, a managed WordPress hosting company, announced the acquisition of competing service BlogDroid in an all cash deal* with the goal to diversify their customer profile. During the transition, Page.ly will manage the BlogDroid domain name and move customers from the existing BlogDroid infrastructure to their hosting platform. BlogDroid customers will immediately benefit from Page.ly’s … Read more

Introducing AZTechBeat's Valley Tech Map

Arizona’s tech community is heating up with new startups, established companies, new investors, incubators and various tech events throughout the valley. One of the biggest problems is just keeping up with everything that’s happening in the valley or even knowing which companies exist. Of course, that’s why we launched AZTechBeat and the Events calendar and free … Read more