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 ...

The guys over at Tempe based jumpbox.com announced today an exclusive distribution deal with blogging company Six Apart. Six Apart, the world's leading blogging software and services company, and JumpBox, a developer of virtual appliances that simplify server software deployment, today announced the availability of Virtual Movable Type. With Virtual Movable Type, new customers can get a quicker start using a ...

Francine Hardaway remains on the lips and holiday card lists of many tech company leaders in the Phoenix area. But who is Francine Hardaway and why should you care? For many business owners, Francine is a sounding board, a connector, a promoter, and an experienced entrepreneur. And in some ways Francine has affected the lives of every individual living in ...

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 ...

They guys over at fortyagency (previously fortymedia) have announced via their tumblr that front man Aaron Post has "moved onto other projects". Without Aaron’s diligence, strategy, and hard work, Forty wouldn’t be anywhere close to where we are now. We give heartfelt thanks for what he’s given to this company, and we wish him nothing but the best of luck in ...

The grapevine is abuzz with rumors that local web design company MissionE Commerce is selling off their client services division.  Are they moving into more product based web stuff? Or is this the crash and burn of a longtime (~1998) phoenix web company? Interesting to see who takes over their long client list, which includes richdad.com.