This week, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) AppFog acquired Ahwatukee-based Node.js PaaS Nodester, giving app developers even richer multi-language cloud deployment support. Node.js is a popular new asynchronous Javascript library/framework for building fast, scalable realtime web applications. According to the Nodester blog, AppFog will run and maintain the Nodester service as it is, but it will also have Node support … Read more
The last thing on a business executive’s mind should be how to accurately pay their employees. Trying to crunch the numbers and use tiresome tax tables can be tedious and ineffective. Many different factors are involved including Federal and State tax, Social Security and Medicare taxes. Symmetry Software was founded in 1984 by Tom Reahard … Read more
Real estate development is risky business. It certainly adopts the idea that, “it takes money to make money.” Whether it be the construction of a low-grade office building, or a master planned project for a mixed-use, high-density urban area (much like Kierland Commons or Scottsdale Quarter right here in AZ Tech Beat’s backyard), it takes … Read more
Vuurr provides PPC, SEO, and Development services that optimize digital marketing efforts. Vuurr partners Scott Yacko, Jonathan Kressaty, Joshua Ziering, Chris Conrey, and Chuck Reynolds have jettisoned the traditionally touchy-feely approach to marketing. Instead of focusing on the more nebulous aspects like branding or perception, Vuurr maximizes digital marketing campaigns with a metrics-driven approach focused on … Read more
Based out of Gilbert, Ariz., ClaimTrak has offered paperless health record solutions to behavioral health and human service agencies for more than 21 years. ClaimTrak President and CEO Brad Ewalt conceptualized the company while working as an independent system solutions consultant. With many behavioral health agencies as his clients, he saw a need for a … Read more
If you want to be an entrepreneur, ASU is probably one of the best places you could be right now. A few years back, ASU president Michael Crow started an initiative to help make all of ASU’s colleges more entrepreneurial. Every college at ASU started offering business classes, so students wanting to start their own … Read more
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