Last month, the room was “ignited” by an inspirational talk from Tom McDermott, founder of Ignite, who expressed his principles on how individuals should be passionately curious in everything you do. Our next #FLFPhoenix event will feature a new method of innovating your product. For our May event, we are heading back to Axosoft in … Read more
AppointmentPlus, a worldwide leader in online and mobile scheduling solutions, is exploding with growth as they have experienced a consistent revenue growth at 35 percent year over year throughout the past five years, hit a milestone of more than 7K customers, 50 of which are Fortune 500 companies, have over 40 million appointments scheduled each … Read more
Yesterday Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced that she vetoed the controversial SB1062 that would allow business owners to assert their religious beliefs and refuse service to LGBT individuals. Last week when the bill passed AZ legislation, it set off a fire storm of protests and a stream of letters and phone calls from business leaders, … Read more
Arizona Tech Beat strongly opposes SB 1062 and encourages Gov. Jan Brewer to VETO the destructive legislation. Not only does the bill encourage discrimination, but would be harmful to Arizona’s thriving tech sector. Arizona businesses have worked hard to recover from our devastating recession and has been rewarded with growth and future opportunities. If this … Read more
So what to do with all of those holiday photos? Instead of downloading them to your computer, then uploading them to Costco or Walgreens, in a few clicks, they will be printed and shipped in a few days with a new app. PhotoSweep app allows users to forego the checkout process and have pictures printed … Read more
The Arizona Technology Council and Arizona Commerce Authority announced that Eric J. Crown, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Tempe Arizona-based Insight Enterprises, and his brother Timothy A. Crown, co-founder and current Chairman of the Board, will be presented with the “OneNeck IT Services People’s Choice Lifetime Achievement Award” during the 2013 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation … Read more
The Arizona Technology Council has named Telesphere CEO Clark Peterson as the recipient for the 2013 “Ed Denison Business Leader of the Year” award. The award will be presented at Arizona’s premier industry event, the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation, held at the Phoenix Convention Center, Nov. 14, 2013. Telesphere, a provider of Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) … Read more
The Arizona Technology Council will be hosting the first Tucson Tech + Business Expo on October 16, 2013, bringing together a diverse group of Tucson-based technology, software, and manufacturing companies. Some of the featured guests will be Raytheon, Universal Avionics, National Instruments, Honeywell and B/E Aerospace, who will be presenting their business requirements to an … Read more
When founder Kelsey Falter of Poptip, a website that can deliver survey results in real time, realized that her star developer Roly Fentanes from Arizona was an undocumented immigrant, she set off on a tireless year-long journey through the web of U.S. Immigrations policy to get him legally on her team. Falter was convinced that … Read more
desarrollo, a community initiative that launched in late June, announced the addition of nine new strategic partners. The group of additions includes two Vision Partners, one Inspire Partner, and six Community Partners. The Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Local First Arizona join Infusionsoft as Vision Partners, hand-selected and invested in desarrollo’s vision. Arizona Technology … Read more