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]
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]
Wireless Usage Increases, Latest Technologies Demand New Infrastructure
No one can deny the use of cellular and other mobile wireless technology has dramatically increased over the past decade. But while technological advances in handsets and applications may benefit businesses, in many ways they also present building owners with new challenges. Some of those hurdles are detailed in an upcoming report by wireless industry analyst Iain Gillott at … [More]
Remote Work Tools for Startups
The demand for flexible work continues to rise, but not all companies are setting their teams up for success. Goplaceless is the first comprehensive online program for startups as well as mature companies of all sizes, helping them decide if they are ready to go remote and create the policies, processes and tools to launch effective and sustainable remote work programs. … [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]
Incubating Resource Innovation and Solutions
Approximately 8 million metric tons of plastic waste leaks into the ocean every year. Less than half of the U.S. population has access to automatic curbside recycling, and billions of pounds of grease trap waste is ending up in our nation’s sewers every year, causing severe overflows. Luckily, there are several innovative startup ventures working to solve these very problems, … [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]
