Splicity, a new mobile app from Phoenix entrepreneurs Caleb Barclay and Ben Hall, offers businesses a platform to enable their loyal customers to create 17-second videos for strong peer-to-peer marketing. The initial idea was to make storytelling more accessible to the everyday person, Barclay explains. “We wanted to create a community around story-art framework.” But he notes … [More]
Mortgage Lender Targets Underserved Phoenix Market
Recognizing opportunity in Phoenix’s housing market, Carrington Mortgage Services has opened a new Scottsdale office, its second in the area. This is part of the company’s national strategy to target a specific underserved segment — those with a FICO credit score of less than 630. Arizona was among the areas hardest hit by the recent housing collapse, a distinction it shared … [More]
Workforce Services Growth
Relocating its corporate headquarters from San Jose to Phoenix, Matrix Absence Management has expanded its Phoenix operations — which includes the company’s national call center — to a 65,000-square-foot facility in a building that allows for expected further growth. Matrix occupies the top two floors of the three-story building, and has first rights to take on space on the … [More]
Website Launch the Right Way
The recent high-profile misfiring of the launch of the U.S. government’s healthcare website may have captured the headlines, but most brands and corporations make similar mistakes when launching their own mission-critical mobile or Web apps. In the release of HealthCare.gov, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent, outages and slow response were the norm and major brand … [More]
‘Good’ for Business
BIEN — An acronym for “Building an International Economic Network” — is a first-of-its-kind website to link businesses representing various industries in Arizona to each other and across international boundaries in Mexico and Canada. Partners include ASBA, Arizona Commerce Authority, Arizona Mexico Commission and the Canada Arizona Business Council. … [More]
In-the-Cloud Reliability
ReliaCloud, by OneNeck IT Solutions, provides public, private and hybrid cloud flexibility. Now, with availability in Phoenix, customers throughout the Southwest region have the opportunity to harness the power of a local cloud. ReliaCloud is built to support the most demanding of applications, including SAP, Oracle EBS, Microsoft Dynamics (AX and CRM), data warehouses and … [More]
AZ Economy On the Go
The Arizona’s Economy App is a project of the University of Arizona’s Economic and Business Research Center at the Eller College of Management, which has 65+ years of providing Arizona citizens and decision makers with award-winning economic forecasts and applied economic research for Arizona. The free app for iPhone, iPad and Android offers users access to real-time economic … [More]
Cost and Effect of Employees’ Bad Internet Behavior
Information technology managers report a high incidence of troublesome habits among office workers using company computers, according to a U.S. survey recently released by TeamViewer, a leading provider of remote control and online meetings software. The survey was aimed at determining how big an effect common “bad behaviors” have, both on the IT department and on the company’s … [More]
IRS Instruction Videos for Business
Few know that the Internal Revenue Service provides instructional and informational presentation videos on most aspects of business taxes for small business owners. Videos include presentations on forms, starting a business, workshops, filing and paying taxes and even disaster information. High-quality and simple to understand, the IRS video presentations are a quick way to … [More]
Peace and Tranquility Inspire Flower Child
Located in what has become one of the Valley’s culinary hot spots at the corner of 44th Street and Camelback Road, Flower Child is the latest concept by famed local restaurateur Sam Fox. The concept validates the theory that happy food and healthy food can come together in harmony — which they do at this peaceful, casual kitchen. Serving locally sourced foods, all natural … [More]
