Local startup Infusionsoft took $7.9 million in series B funding to fund it's next stage of growth.  The software company is located in Gilbert and continues to expand.  Infusionsoft, congratulations on another round.  Everyone else, this is proof that things in Phoenix do get funded and despite a down economy money is still out there.

Circuit City has been in Phoenix for some time, in fact just this year they opened a new store in Queen Creek.  Retail is hurting and it is to be expected in this economy that we might see some retailers shutting down under performing stores, but pulling your entire operations out of a major city.  Ouch.  That's right, Circuit City ...

I know quite a few shop owners in town.. and the seeming scarcity of quality labor is a topic that comes up a lot.  Check out what startups in Boulder CO did. Should PHX follow suit.. could PHX pull it off?

This blog is co-authored by half a dozen cats that took it upon themselves to make something happen.  We want to shine some light on the rad people and companies in the Valley that are doing the cool things in web and technology. We need your help though.  For as well as our social networks work, Phoenix is so freakin expansive ...

Welcome to Phoenix home of the wild wild West so to speak... As such, I think it's important we police ourselves when possible and not always wait for the sheriff to clean up the riff raff... Now that you are thinking what the hell is this moron babbling about.... It seems we have a local villain here in the valley.  The ...

Google seems to be having trouble making their Phoenix operations work.  Google made the decision to put their campus on the Arizona State University campus nearly two and half years ago.  They made a play to employ professors and control all recruiting out of the engineering department of the university.  Clearly, Google was in it for Google, not the university ...

Double the space, double the fun! Lots of great projects happening down @gangplank, so many that they need to move into a bigger building! Exciting times for startups in Phoenix. P.S. If you haven't been coming to hacknight at gangplank, you've been missing out!

DateDesigner, one of the first companies to come out of the Gangplank incubator, is looking for people to test out it's new web app. DateDesigner is a way to create (from scratch) and/or browse through pre-designed dates to take the hassle and repitition out of dating. Apparently it's not that easy to put together the right date, so if you would ...

(Greater/Metro) Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the nation.. and it's effin hot.  We are going to talk about cool LOCAL companies and people doing cool things.. mostly in the web and tech space. If you follow us on twitter, a nifty wordpress plugin will twit the title and link of all new hoopla posts for your consumption. We have a ...