AZ Tech Beat has spent all year long looking high and low for the most unique, functional, fun and interesting gadgets for our readers. Remember that one gadget you saw months back made you stop and think, “That would be a perfect gift for Sally!” We figured searching back through our archives might be a … Read more
At the 2013 TiE Arizona Fast Pitch event, 15 startups pitched for the grand prize of $5,000 to a groups of local investors. In the end, the founders of SiO2 Nanotech took home the prize, with Late Living taking second and Pollen Tech third; all three companies that placed are ventures of the ASU Edson … Read more
San Francisco–based Gigya, the Connected Consumer Management Suite, announced that it will be coming to Arizona as the site of its corporate expansion after a multi-state competitive process, and bringing 200 high-wage jobs with them over the next three years. Gigya, established in 2007 enables more than 700 of the world’s largest brands to understand … Read more
Announced today, digital firm, Terralever, and advertising and public relations agency, E.B. Lane, merge to form a new marketing powerhouse simply named, LaneTerralever. This merger is a bold move in response to market trends, and rivals the size, talent and capabilities found among marketing firms in the largest markets, east to west coast-and we’ll have … Read more
Stealthmode is over and Contatta, the visionary new company co-founded by Pat Sullivan of ACT! and SalesLogix acclaim, officially launched as a public beta at the DEMO Fall 2013 conference. In a survey by McKinsey Global Institute, the average worker spends more than a quarter of their day in their email inbox, and the average corporate … Read more
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name Web hosting and new SSL certificate provider, announced today the acquisition of Ronin, an online invoicing company. The acquisition, which was completely under the radar since April, has been fully integrated into GoDaddy Online Bookkeeping in order to help small business owners simplify and organize their finances and get … Read more
Jo Overline and Ryan Allen, founders of Dapper Gentlemen a mobile application development company, had a healthy dose of humor and advice as they presented “embracing disruptive mobile technology” for your business at AZTB’s Free Lunch Friday. The talk began with a brief history lesson about how our society’s communication channels have morphed from the … Read more
Last night, 15 startup ventures came together to pitch their business ideas to a full house at The Duce in Phoenix for SEED SPOT 2013. Seed Spot is a nonprofit incubator focused on supporting Arizona’s most innovative social entrepreneurs; those creating high impact ventures that improve the lives of people and communities on a local, … Read more
At TechCrunch Disrupt Livefyre, a provider of the leading real-time conversation and social curation platform, announced the acquisition of Storify, the drag-and-drop storytelling tool that has changed the way journalists and brands tell stories on the web. Storify was created by a journalist for journalists and helps them filter out social content around news events … Read more
When film critics David Edelstein of NPR, Dana Stevens of Slate or Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times talk, the public listens, but does the audience always agree? How many times have you read a review about a movie and felt that the more popular film critics were just wrong? I mean, what do critics really … Read more