Technology careers are growing at a rapid pace in an industry that is stronger than many others. With an anticipated 21 percent growth rate over the next 10 years for software development jobs, the need for software developers is stronger than ever. Three Maricopa Community Colleges are working with Promineo Tech, an innovative provider of tech education, to make coding … [More]
Tech Advances Shipping Logistics
While we will continue to see growth in parcel package deliveries in 2020, we will see an even bigger spike in online sales of items requiring white-glove logistics and services. Due to this new trend in ecommerce, consumers — who have been conditioned to expect their online purchases will be delivered quickly and efficiently — will start to demand the oversized, fragile or … [More]
Front Expands to Greater Phoenix
Front, the company replacing corporate email with an inbox built for teamwork, will create up to 50 new jobs in Greater Phoenix in 2020. With offices in San Francisco and Paris, the company considered multiple markets for its expansion, including Salt Lake City and San Diego, but ultimately selected Greater Phoenix due to the region’s competitive costs to do business, the … [More]
Scheduling: a Job for Technology
Recruiters send three or more emails to schedule one interview, according to a recent survey by Cronofy and JobAdder. This means that, if it takes 15 minutes to check their availability and then write an email, they lose 45 minutes to scheduling one interview. If a hiring manager interviews five people for a role, that's 7.5 hours — or almost an entire working day — lost to … [More]
Paranoia and the Big Attention Gap
The problem with industrial espionage is not only that is growing in volume and complexity every day, but that its threat is being used by rivals and governments to discredit perfectly honest and legitimate businesses that do not deserve the slur. What is also curious is that the danger need not be only non-existent, but not even something an individual rival is greatly … [More]
RLabs’ Hotel Technology Innovation
RLabs is a travel technology-based innovator, created as a subsidiary to RLH Corporation. It will focus on new revenue verticals, and on developing unique technology and system offerings for the hospitality industry that includes software, robotics and artificial intelligence. The first offering from RLabs is Canvas Integrated Systems, an all-in-one, cloud-based hospitality … [More]
Chime’s All-in-One Real Estate Solution
Phoenix-based Chime Technologies is an all-in-one business development platform for the real estate industry. Its award-winning productivity suite offers a robust set of features that help real estate professionals and teams of all sizes run and grow their business. Among its features are its intelligent IDX website, customer relationship management (CRM) and the ability to … [More]
Acronis Cyber Protection Growth Taps Local Talent
Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, recently opened an office in Tempe. The new location features a cutting-edge research and development office, as well as Acronis’s largest and fastest growing data center operations space. Fully staffed, the office will employ 150 new engineering, sales, professional services and support personnel. Acronis is driving a new … [More]
Shoes Fitted by Technology
3D Fit Drone is a revolutionary shoe-fitting technology from Road Runner Sports that captures an accurate three-dimensional scan of customers’ feet in just seven seconds and records six critical foot measurements: foot size, length, width, arch height, instep and heel width. One of the biggest breakthroughs in the shoe-fitting industry in recent years, this augments the brand’s … [More]
Dash Cams Address Driver Risk
GPS Insight, a leading provider of fleet software to organizations with fleets of vehicles, trailers and other mobile assets, has partnered with Netradyne to offer its customers the Driveri 360° AI Fleet Camera, which is designed to enhance driver safety by capturing and analyzing every minute on the road. “Organizations have long been using fleet software to monitor driver … [More]
Putting Real Estate Transactions in Hand
HomeSmart International, continuing to build its arsenal as a technology-powered real estate franchisor, recently launched its RealSmart Agent Mobile application in the iTunes app store and on Google Play. The app offers functions similar to HomeSmart International’s web-based tool RealSmart Agent, developed by the company to manage all aspects of its agents’ business on a … [More]
True Food Scores Win-Win with Brand Engagement App
True Food Kitchen has launched “True Insider,” a loyalty program and custom-branded app designed to be a more personalized and customizable brand engagement program serving up unique rewards and exclusive experiences. True Insider will integrate directly with the restaurant’s new digital ordering platform, allowing guests to order and pay online, make reservations, manage their … [More]
Fast-Food Giant Sees Potential in Decision Logic Technology
The recent announcement that McDonald’s is spending more than $300 million to acquire Dynamic Yield Ltd., a tech company that is on the cutting-edge of “decision-logic” technology, has led some folks to wonder why a company like McDonald’s would want to sink such massive funding into a tech company. “Chains like McDonald’s have been acquiring intellectual property and/or … [More]
Web vs Internet
The Web needs the internet to work, but the internet needs the Web to be useful. While the Web is probably the largest service on the internet that most people use, it's not all of the internet. The two overlap and interconnect; the Web would not exist without the internet, but, similarly, the internet would not have grown into the amazing and powerful tool it is without the … [More]
Smarter Logistics for the Construction Industry
A multisided, cloud-based platform providing a marketplace that connects truckers, contractors and material producers throughout North America, TRUX recently launched in Phoenix as its third major metropolitan area in its planned rollout of 45 markets nationally this year. “We are excited to be launching the TRUX platform in the Southwest, a region that is experiencing a major … [More]
Enhanced Marketing through Augmented Reality
The UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle, an enterprise of the Ak-Chin Indian Community, is implementing a new, futuristic, augmented reality campaign from Imagination Park that will help change the theatrical experience and social culture within the one-of-a-kind world-class facility. The Augmented Reality from Imagination Park enables UltraStar customers to … [More]
