For the first time, hosts can buy rides for their guests. With UberEVENTS, hosts control how, when and where their guests ride — so the only thing their guests have to worry about is having the best time. Get a customized guest pass with date, time and promo code. Guests enter the code and request a ride. The host decides how much he will pay. The UberX option is up to … [More]
Arizona Lottery Is Giving Back
This time of year, many businesses are looking for places to give and to support the community. The Arizona Lottery has put together a campaign that showcases some of the giving that monies from the Arizona Lottery go to. It raised more than $3 billion for Arizona and programs that matter. Proceeds from Arizona Lottery ticket sales go to programs and organizations in four … [More]
Model Behavior: 3-D Printing Is Building
“In construction, we’re bidding the concept of what we can deliver,” says Jeff Perelman, senior vice president and chief growth and strategy officer of Sundt Construction, Inc., explaining the advantage of 3-D over 2-D is “it’s hard to go from a two-dimensional piece of paper to give people a sense of scale of what you’re building.” Building a model rather than simply producing … [More]
Cyber Security Hire Platform
Cybrary launched its Cyber Security Job Platform. This talent platform is designed to meet the demand for skilled cyber security professionals, which is growing four times faster than the overall IT job market and 12 times faster than the total labor market. Currently, there are more than a million open job postings for cyber security positions around the world. … [More]
Feedback Tool
Hinted, a people analytics app, has launched and is available in the Apple App Store. This new social network mobile application enables small teams or individuals to provide peers with semi-anonymous feedback. The tool is gamified and sessions last less than a minute. The app is used for hiring, team composition, and learning and development decisions. The Hinted App is … [More]
Anywhere Communication App
Webchat, social media channels and mobile communications are quickly taking over the role of traditional telephone contact in the field of customer service. In order to enable organizations to provide the best-possible service for their customers via all channels of communication, European market leader Workstreampeople is launching a new version of Anywhere365. This platform … [More]
Arizona Business & Education Showcased in Film Series
A series of 10 videos aimed at promoting the Arizona technology industry and education throughout the U.S. as well as globally is being produced by MediaTHP, a local media/film production company, as part of on-going efforts by the local government to promote a favorable business climate in Arizona to external parties. The series focuses on specific topics related to the … [More]
Thwart Internet Hackers with Employee Firewall
There has been a lot of investment in corporate IT security, especially infrastructure, observes Felix Odigie, CEO of Inspired eLearning, and it has paid off — networks are more secure. But with hackers finding it more difficult to hack the network, they have turned their attention to the weakest link: humans. “It’s easier to hack users of the network — employees, vendors, … [More]
Distracted Driving Is an Employer Issue
Distracted driving is a potential minefield for employers, due to a liability issue that many misunderstand. “A common mistake is to think, ‘If it’s the driver’s equipment, we don’t have any responsibility.’ That is not so,” says David Lewis, CEO of HR company OperationsInc, noting, “The courts have emphatically said that if a person is performing work for your firm, and at the … [More]
Data Centers Becoming Important Utility
The “cloud” that has become a ubiquitous presence in contemporary life actually resides on the ground — this is a data center (not to be confused with a call center, which is low-wage employment generally of a customer-service nature). “Every kind of business and service needs to be able to store data and transmit it at high speed,” observes Russell Smoldon, CEO of B3 … [More]
Digital Communication
Web chat, social media channels and mobile communications are quickly taking over the role of traditional telephone contact in the field of customer service. In order to enable organizations to provide the best possible services for their customers via all channels of communication, European market leader Workstreampeople is launching a new version of Anywhere365. This platform … [More]
A Digital Approach to Employee Training
Training a new employee is a lengthy process. Recognizing that this can be especially burdensome for small businesses, local entrepreneur Chris Ronzio recently launched Trainual, a Web-based software geared toward small businesses to make the training process easier. Because the software is Web-based, it affords convenient access from any location at any time. “Building the … [More]
A New, More Secure Payment Method
“It’s been something that’s been in the works for quite some time now,” says Scott Shedd, referring to the upcoming switch from traditional credit and debit cards to EMV cards. Shedd is the information security consulting manager for WGM, an IT company located in Scottsdale that analyzes technology risks and compliance. The noticeable difference between a traditional card … [More]
Pay-in-Advance Meals
Restaurants are starting to use technology to cut their losses from reservation no-shows through a ticketing system similar to that for theater performances, pioneered in 2011 by Nick Kokonas; diners will not be able to change reservations or get refunds, but can give their reservation to someone else. Kokonas’s “Tock” also provides restaurants with other commercial business … [More]
Amazon Opens for Business
Amazon recently launched Amazon Business with features tailored to businesses. It was designed as a response to business customers wanting an experience at work similar to how they shop at home, according to Prentis Wilson, vice pr esident of Amazon Business, who says it offers “features and back-end integration businesses need to save time and money.” … [More]
LifeLock Program for the Workplace
LifeLock’s recently launched product, LifeLock Benefit Elite™ identity theft protection, was created specifically for employers and brokers to offer as a benefit for employees. It is designed to help detect potential fraud, including issues with a 401(k) account, and bring it to the attention of the employee through alerts within the company’s network via email, text or phone. … [More]
Accounting on the Go
FreshBooks is working with Apple to deliver a made-for-business app to allow small-business owners to run their business and invoice their clients from anywhere, using a mobile device that can fit into their pocket. Also available are enhanced security features Touch ID and Passcode, currently available for download from the App Store. … [More]
Translation, Please
Translate Your World, developers of across-language communication software, has released new software that enables almost anyone to converse in real-time across 25 different languages. There has never been anything like Translate Your World. Just go to a webpage and talk. The words of each speaker are instantly translated into the other language, to appear as subtitles or be … [More]
