Banyan Technology Announces Expansions To Automated Volume Freight And Additional Platform Functionality

Banyan Technology, the pioneer and industry leader of live carrier connectivity, today announced the addition of increased functionality with automated volume freight rating and tendering along with extended platform features. These additions build on the most comprehensive and robust carrier connectivity platform in the industry. Banyan first offered volume freight connectivity more than three years

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Akron-Based CompanionLabs Receives $250,000 In Funding From JumpStart

Akron-based CompanionLabs has received a $250,000 investment from JumpStart Inc., pushing the startup’s seed funding to $500,000. The company — a creator of software that analyzes, boosts and automates online ad performance, according to its website — announced the funding in a Tuesday, Dec. 19, news release. The money from JumpStart comes from the economic development nonprofit’s $10

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CompanionLabs Takes Off In 2017, Wraps Year With New Product Launch & Seed Funding To Accelerate Rapid Growth

9-Month-Old Akron Software Company Rolls Out Predictive Budget Recommendations to Users Globally and Announces $500k in Seed Funding from JumpStart Inc. and Others On the second floor of an unassuming office building in Akron, Ohio—above an East of Chicago Pizza and an Einstein Bros. Bagels—a team of advertising, software and data science veterans spent 2017

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Akron-Based, Female-Owned Komae Completes Fundraising Round

An Akron-based, self-described “female-founded tech startup” company says it has secured $500,000 in a “pre-seed investment round.” It did it by turning to female investors in the area — 20 of whom ponied up the cash to back Komae Inc., which aims to develop new software for the sharing economy. “We live in a time when

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enosiX, Inc. Announces SAP® Real-Time Business Process Integrator App On The Salesforce AppExchange

enosiX today announced it has launched the SAP Real-Time Business Process Integrator app on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering customers to quickly implement enterprise-grade business process integration into Salesforce. The zero-code approach enables rapid install to increase selling time. Built to enhance sales productivity and customer service, enosiX provides drag and drop capability to add live

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Columbus Tech Firm Wiretap Scans Client Firms’ Social Networks For Problems

If Uber had been using the product of a Columbus company, the ride-service company might have been able to catch and address its culture of sexual harassment before its image took a hit. That’s the assessment of Wiretap CEO and co-founder Jeff Schumann. The young company can help businesses monitor workers’ use of company social

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State OKs Tax Credit For Expansion Project At Vox Mobile Inc.

The state of Ohio has approved a tax credit for Vox Mobile Inc. that could pave the way for the mobile device management company to create 80 jobs in Independence. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday, Dec. 4, approved a seven-year, 1.345% tax credit to Vox Mobile for an expansion project. The company, which is based at 6100

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Vox Mobile Keeps Business Technology Running Smoothly

Mobile technology is redefining the way businesses operate, from the way they share information, to the way they manage data and reach customers. With new, advanced mobile solutions come equally complex challenges in security and maintenance that can be costly, time-consuming and even unfeasible for businesses to handle on their own. Vox Mobile in Cleveland, Ohio, is

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enosiX Integrates Vital Business Data To Maximize Sales

Two major systems exist in sales to help drive company profitability: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and Enterprise Resource Platforms (ERPs). CRMs, such as Salesforce, provide a platform for collecting and sharing customer data to keep salespeople in the know and help them better sell to their customers. ERPs, like SAP, focus on the business side of

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VICC, GenomOncology Unveil New Cancer Clinical Trial Search Tool

Clinicians, investigators and cancer patients now have access to a new online search tool that provides more detailed information about clinical research trials available for cancer patients. My Cancer Genome (MCG), a web-based cancer information tool developed by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators in 2011 and supported by GenomOncology, has launched a new clinical trial search

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Banyan Technology Building Nationwide Truck Platform Supporting Heavy-Goods E-Commerce

A transportation technology provider is building a platform to connect retailers and third-party logistics (3PL) providers with thousands of local truckers nationwide to support the same-day deliveries of heavy goods that are ordered online. The platform, developed by Cleveland-based Banyan Technology, will be rolled out during the first quarter of 2018, according to Lance Healy,

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Plug And Play’s Biotech Bet On Cleveland Affirms City’s Innovation Status: Editorial

The Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart’s recently announced three-year biotech partnership with Plug and Play, one of the world’s biggest startup accelerators, is a smart way to entice up-and-coming biotech and digital health companies to our biotech-rich region — along with the venture capitalists and corporations who love them. Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play Tech Center is

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