Amazon has augmented its employee perquisite Career Choice Program with an onsite classroom at one of its Phoenix fulfillment centers. The program, launched in 2012, enables full-time, hourly employees to pursue their interest in furthering their career. It is designed to provide resources for building skills needed for today’s most in-demand and well-paying careers, per … [More]
A/C Efficiency: Winds of Change
Effects of the new seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER) for air conditioning implemented last January by the U.S. Department of Energy are being felt all along the channel, from manufacturer to distributor to contractor to purchaser. Noting that the previous change, in January 2006, had met with considerable resistance in the industry, Dan Burke, chairman of Goettl Good Guys … [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]
Save Time. Time Off.
There are a lot of hours lost in the office. What causes this loss? Is it meetings, phone calls, personal time? Sapience Analytics has created a tool for employees to monitor their workday and determine their most productive times of the day. The program, Sapience Buddy, works behind the scenes on the user’s computer and indicates the person’s time on computer work, websites, … [More]
Marketing Podcasts Teach and Inform
In an effort to help interested professionals become better marketers and businesspeople, MarketingPodcasts.com created this service to help discover podcasts that can teach and inform in areas that relate to marketing as well as other areas that can truly benefit business. The system checks the iTunes Podcasts directory twice a week for podcasts, adding to its own directory … [More]
Eating Spaces
A 12,000-square-foot, $5-million development will bring three or four restaurants to ASU’s SkySong, including a 4,500-square-foot farm-to-table restaurant. A unique feature to the development will be a 3,000-square-foot garden that will be professionally installed and curated. Partnering on the project are Wetta Ventures; Arizona State University Foundation; and SkySong, the … [More]
Grow and Own
LGE Design Build completed a 15,000-square-foot aerospace manufacturing machine shop last month for J.B.’s Precision Industries, a certified woman-owned, small manufacturing business. J.B.’s Precision Industries constructed the building, located at 2320 W. Parkside Lane in Phoenix, to grow its business after leasing for 21 years. The family-owned aerospace and defense … [More]
On the Corridor
A prime piece of Camelback Corridor commercial space will soon have a new look as Wetta Ventures redevelops an existing 12,130-square-foot, two-story building on the northwest corner of Camelback Road and 20th Street in Phoenix into retail and creative office space. Renovation is slated to begin in early September, with completion and tenant move-in by January 2016. The … [More]
For-Profit Partner for Special Education
Public schools regularly contract with for-profit companies for supplies and services, from text books to trash collection. Mark Claypool, president and CEO of Educational Services of America, which is currently expanding the capacity of its four Ombudsman charter schools in Arizona, believes for-profit companies also have a place in schools’ basic purpose: educating students. … [More]
