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Marathoners Benefit From Athlinks Merger

Photo: George Walker / Competitor Group Athlinks, the largest online results database for endurance races, has been acquired by Chronotrack, a provider of race solutions for race organizers and timing partners. Both companies hope to extend their current services and help combine contacts so that racers can connect with each other as well as race … Read more

TabHere to reward regulars of local spots

Earn rewards by showing your face. That’s right, your face. TabHere, a startup launching in Phoenix this summer, plans to make it easier for loyal customers to earn and redeem rewards at local businesses. Like other similar companies, TabHere uses a virtual rewards system, but founder Paul Kenjora identified an important difference in his model. Unlike … Read more

Phoenix-based iLinc Specializes in Web Conferencing Tools

Since its inception, web video conferencing and screen sharing have been greatly received by the population for both business and personal use. This technological advancement has been used for everything between strengthening long-distance relationships, to conducting virtual international meetings between executive boards. Due to the variances in usage, web video providers have taken different approaches … Read more

Tempe-based LifeLock offers identity theft protection

We shred our documents, monitor our bank accounts and exercise caution when disclosing our personal information. But many of us still fall victim to some form of identity theft. According to a report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in November 2011, 7 percent of households in the United States, or about 8.6 million … Read more

Gilbert-based Infusionsoft Grosses $26M in 2011

Founded by local residents Clate Mask and Scott Martineau, they built and tailored the Infusionsoft platform to help small businesses reach their set growth objectives. Being former struggling small business owners themselves, both Mask and Martineau saw a need for their service. Beginning in 2001 as a custom software shop, Infusionsoft then received a total … Read more

Phoenix-based Flypaper makes digital signage easy

From restaurant menus to shopping center maps, the presence of digital signs continues to grow, and a Phoenix-based digital signage software company is at the forefront. Flypaper Studios, Inc. spun out of Interactive Alchemy, an organization established by local entrepreneur Don Pierson in 2003 to create web-based marketing and training content for Fortune 1000 clients. Pierson launched Interactive Alchemy … Read more