Roll over, sit, stay…vacay! For dog owners, planning their vacation away from home also involves finding accommodations for their four-legged family member. While some choose a dog resort or kenneling, more owners are choosing to send them to someone’s house with the help of dog-boarding services like Sleepover Rover. According to Fox Business, the robust dog … Read more
Tishin Donkersley, M.A. & Carlene Reyes, AZTB After seemingly gobbling up everything in its sight, Google had yet to get its hands on one service: domain name registration. But now, Google is quietly, but most certainly, invading the GoDaddy dominant territory with the launch of Google Domains. While this beta site might be a surprise … Read more
Scottsdale’s nettime solutions LLC, a cloud-based time and attendance software, announced that is has been acquired for an undisclosed amount by Paychex, Inc., the leading payroll, human resource and benefits outsourcing provider for small- to medium-sized businesses. According to Paychex President and CEO Martin Mucci, nettime solutions’ “development expertise” is a perfect partnership for Paychex’s outstanding customer service solutions. nettime … Read more
Crexendo, Inc., a hosted services company that provides hosted telecommunications services, hosted website services, website development software and broadband internet services for businesses and entrepreneurs, today announced an asset purchase agreement with One Stop Voice (“OSV”). OSV provides top of the line, feature rich, cloud-based communications systems to small and medium sized business customers. OSV … Read more
The year is just about halfway over (how did that happen?), and tech companies around the Valley keep locking down funding and spending the benjis. Take a look at our list of Arizona’s startups and acquisitions from the beginning of 2014. FUNDING Arizona State University Money raised: $1 million Awarded by the Department of Defense (DOD) … Read more
Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, and ISSC Technologies Corporation (ISSC) today announced that they have signed an agreement to acquire ISSC, a leading provider of low power Bluetooth and advanced wireless solutions for the Internet Of Things (IoT) market. ISSC is publicly traded on the GreTai Securities Market … Read more
Two Arizona early-stage startups, Vicinity Health and SyCara Local, were accepted into The Indus Entrepreneurship (TiE) 2014 conference as finalists in the TiE50 Awards Program and pitched in front of tech CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors from all around the world. The AZ startups were chosen out of over 2,800 applicants from 27 countries. The TiE50 … Read more
PITOOEY! Inc. announced that it has named Richard M. Hybner as their new CEO. As a rapidly expanding company, the announcement follows the recent acquisition of RAADR software for social media monitoring and the launch of their flagship product, the PITOOEY! app. Former CEO of PITOOEY!, Jacob DiMartino, will continue his duties as President and … Read more
Hexagon AB, a Swedish company and global provider of design, measurement and visualization technologies, has begun negotiations to acquire Tucson-based Mintec Inc., a maker of management and modeling software for the mining industry. Terms of the purchase by Hexagon AB, were not disclosed, and the two companies said they expect the deal to close by … Read more
In a report by the Wall Street Journal, GoDaddy is gearing up for IPO. The report indicated that the company is set to interview underwriters in the coming weeks. GoDaddy, the world’s top platform for small businesses, had made a significant shift in their messaging from the “sex sells” mantra and GoDaddy girl, to their … Read more