Aiming to make all meetings easier to “Join / Control / Analyze,” meetings technology provider Synergy SKY offers trailblazing yet user-friendly software for all business meetings. “Our systems are built to monitor efficient usage of business facilities and equipment with the goal of allowing employers to better optimize the extremely expensive real estate that is provided … [More]
Technology Impacts the Traditional 9-5 Workday
There was a time when the traditional nine-to-five work schedule was a governing model of a day’s work. With the rise of the gig economy, nine-to-fives are dying and companies are feeling the effects. In fact, about 36 percent of U.S. workers are now considered freelance workers. Companies need to do their best to keep their employees engaged or they risk losing them to the gig … [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]
Personalized Offers & Promotions Platform
A new Omnichannel Offers and Promotions Management Platform from Mobivity Holdings Corp., creators of award-winning customer personalization platform Recurrency, will allow brands to generate unique 1:1 codes that can be attached to a text message offer, receipt-printed promotion or existing marketing channels external to Recurrency. This allows brands to “turn and burn” codes … [More]
Innovative Recruiting Website
Featuring video resumes, live stream job fairs and the ability for employers to instantly chat with candidates, CruitScout offers a more efficient recruiting process by forgoing traditional paper resumes that can heighten barriers such as employment gaps. Employers have a clearer picture of an applicant's skillset while recruiting and, ultimately, making hiring decisions in … [More]
Online & Private for Professional ‘Super Connectors’
In a new private online “Community for People Who Know People,” Las Vegas-based startup Silent Rich aims to solve some of the more common problems that professionals and entrepreneurial connectors alike often have, bringing together those who know the right people with those who are seeking connections for a professional opportunity, business venture or anything that can be … [More]
Healthcare Companies: Stop Being Such an Easy Target for Hackers
It’s official: Healthcare remains the most breached industry in 2019. In the first half of the year, 32 million healthcare records were breached — double the total for all of 2018. And there are no signs that cyberattacks in the healthcare industry are going to cease. It seems that the size of an organization doesn’t matter, as both large and small healthcare providers get … [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]
Tool Tracks Company Alumni
ENGAGE Talent, an AI software company that offers the Total Talent Intelligence™ solution to help companies improve talent acquisition, engagement and retention and predict company and market performance, has released a new alumni engagement product that aggregates and tracks alumni data, mapping talent and analyzing movements in the industry, to provide companies with … [More]
Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship under Avnet’s Wing
Avnet, a leading global technology solutions provider is committed to supporting innovation and entrepreneurship at every stage. The company continues to sponsor the ASU Innovation Open, and continues to make its Ask Avnet program available for engineers. This is part of Avnet’s long history of actively encouraging innovation in the technology sector. “As nextgeneration … [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]
Re-Engineering the Media Supply Chain
Research by the company across more than 60 campaigns over the past two-plus years has shown that digital advertising wastes some 47 percent of impressions. Commerce Signals gives brands the marketing reflexes they need to redirect that inefficient spend toward more effective approaches, doubling media effectiveness. Commerce Signals is just beginning to unleash the power of … [More]
Engagement Platform for Mobile Workforce
StaffConnect, a leading provider of mobile employee engagement solutions for the deskless workforce, recently released its Series 3. Redesigned from the ground up, the new SaaS platform transforms the way organizations engage with their workforce and delivers an entire employee engagement solution-in-a-pocket. Powerful feedback tools such as pulse surveys reported in minutes … [More]
Decentralized Financial Services
Nash recently launched its user-friendly platform for decentralized financial services, making it quicker and easier to implement large-scale exchanges and everyday payment platforms. Nash combines the security and trust of a decentralized exchange with the speed and performance of a centralized exchange. Unlike a centralized exchange, Nash never takes control of the user’s … [More]
Payment Product Eliminates Check Fraud
Losses from check fraud total $18.7 billion and affect more than 70 percent of organizations each year. ValidCheck is a new eCheck product designed to eliminate fraud and streamline the way consumers and businesses process transactions online. It was conceptualized by Matt Widdows, founder and CEO of Scottsdale-based HomeSmart International. Each ValidCheck eCheck contains the … [More]
App Helps Phoenix Businesses Support Local Schools
Clover, a cloud-based point-of-sale solution under Fiserv, and DonorsChoose, an education crowd funding platform, have launched a new app to help merchants support schools in Phoenix and local communities around the country. The Round Up for Schools app, available in the Clover App Market, offers customers the option to round up their purchases and donate the change to nearby … [More]
Rise of the Modern-Day Product Manager
“We want to know what every product in the world is. We want to know who every person in the world is. And we want to have the ability to connect them together in a transaction.” —Walmart’s CEO of global e-commerce Technology is driving innovation and new product development in companies around the world. In turn, the demand for product management professionals who have a … [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]
