HB @Twitter – Life in 140 characters

Seven years ago today the first tweet hit the Earth forever changing how we communicate, read the news, follow live events, share a few laughs, and explain life in 140 characters. Twitter has become one of the most popular social media outlet in the US with over 140M users worldwide with an average of 340 … Read more

Free Lunch Fridays Hits Phoenix

Startups need money, resources-and a free lunch! AZ Tech Beat, in partnership with Seed Spot, will be hosting Free Lunch Fridays in Phoenix. Free Lunch Fridays, a non-profit organization, has one simple goal-to provide community, content, connections and access to capital to the startups and entrepreneurs who fuel the ecosystem. The program runs the last … Read more

TransferBigFiles.com Launches 20 GB Free File Transfer Service

TransferBigFiles.com relaunched a new version of their site with the ability to send files up to 20 gigabyte in size through the web for free and anonymously-this equals to about 10 hours of high-definition video. While most sites limit free transfers to just 100 megabytes, TransferBigFiles.com is now 200 times larger. “This is unprecedented,” said … Read more

Arizona Technology Council Voices Support for College Students

  Voluntary state-led initiative spearheaded by governors and state school chiefs is the right move to set Arizona’s students on the right path to career-readiness in Arizona’s second century. As the strongest voice for Arizona’s high-technology industry, the Public Policy Committee and the Workforce and Education Committee of the Arizona Technology Council (http://www.aztechcouncil.org) today announced … Read more

Developer launches app for Spring Breakers

Local app developer Charles Pinto has teamed up with Body Shots Tequila to create a mobile app to accompany the March 16 launch at Lake Havasu during Spring Break. The app shares the name of the company it was created for and will be mostly informational, telling people how to do the shots and where … Read more

Tech Girls ROCK!

  On Wednesday, March 13, Tech Girls ROCKED the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale as, for the first time ever, the Clubs partnered with CA Technologies to offer more than 100 tween and teen girls a full-day workshop developed to encourage the kids to discover and cultivate an interest in information technology (IT) … Read more

Collegiate Incubator Programs On The Rise

Photo by: Carlos Samano, GateWay Community College The Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, Arizona’s latest startup incubator, held its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on the morning of March 7 at GateWay Community College in Phoenix. The new incubator is based at the community college and hopes to differentiate itself from other incubators in the Valley by … Read more

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