GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving sat down with me to discuss GoDaddy’s strategy behind their new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD), why owners should adopt these domains to help define their business, and an inside scoop about the rollout of close to 800 TLDs planned for release later this year. The TLDs, are part of the web … Read more
Acoustic Technologies, an audio solutions provider has been acquired by Cirrus Logic, an analog and digital signal processing components supplier. Acoustic Technologies is based in Mesa, Arizona, and is a leader in embedded firmware voice processing technology, including noise reduction, echo cancelation and voice enhancement. The company’s applications are used by smartphone manufacturers and as well as GPS, … Read more
The AZTB gadget review team is back at it with smartphones, and this time we bring you the Nokia Lumia. We know you have a ton of choices when it comes to smartphones, so we’re here to give you some good and not so good features of the Lumia. Our team consisted of an IT specialist, … Read more
Pat Sullivan, founder and former CEO of ACT! and SalesLogix is quite familiar with the Arizona entrepreneurial scene. With his new company Contatta, he is passionate and pumped to grow his business in Silicon Desert. Contatta recently announced the completion of a $3.25 million financing round led by Grayhawk Capital Venture Fund II and Kickstart Seed Fund … 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
Experian, the leading global information services company, has announced an agreement to acquire 41st Parameter, the market leader in device identification technology and web fraud detection for $324M. 41st Parameter was venture backed by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, Byers, Georgian Partners, Northwest Venture Partners, and Jafco Ventures, among others. According to Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers site, … Read more
Amazon.com, the online shopping store, announced that they are hiring 70,000 full-time seasonal workers around the U.S. to fill orders during the holiday seasons, and thousands of jobs will become available at their Arizona fulfillment center. An Amazon.com spokeswoman stated that they predict thousands of Arizona jobs will transfer from temporary to long-term in 2014. … Read more
With the federal Affordable Care Act in place and millions of American having the ability to sign up for healthcare, businesses are required to inform their employees of this change as well. One company developed software to help facilitate this process for current and future employees. COBRA Solutions, Inc., a leader in employee benefits software, … 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
Page.ly, a managed WordPress hosting site, announced the appointment of Joshua Eichorn to Chief Technology Officer. For the past five years Eichorn was the Director of Engineering at StumbleUpon in San Francisco. Previous to that he was a consultant for the Cisco Learning Institute, VP at open-source project PEAR and built the original Page.ly prototype … Read more