Emplify, which also announced a new vice president of sales, said it plans to reinvest the funds back into its core product and service innovation, and into expanding its sales and marketing teams.
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Jersey City leads world in percentage of female start-up founders
Businesses founded by women account for 23.5 percent of those in Jersey City that received more than $1 million in funding, a higher proportion than any other city, according to a study by banking app Tide.
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Beyond the wheel 
HNTB predicts that connected and autonomous vehicles will affect businesses such as taxi and trucking companies and that those effects will revolve around legal and regulatory issues related to liability, taxation and use of GPS information along with other vehicle-generated data. State and regional transportation agencies have taken note and begun examining how the changes could play out.
Read More »ID Systems rebrands as it closes Pointer Telocation acquisition
The company’s new corporate umbrella now includes global brands PowerFleet, Pointer Telocation and Cellocator. PowerFleet will be both the corporate entity name, as well as the primary brand for North America.
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Commvault launches global enterprise segment; names new execs
Commvault announced on Thursday Anthony Faustini will lead its new global enterprises initiative. As vice president of global accounts, Faustini will increase the value of large enterprises in the segment, the cloud and on-site the data software company said. “We work with the largest global enterprises to solve hard data management problems and we have ...
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Propelify, NJ Tech Council prep for 10K at innovation fest
“Tomorrow’s going to be about bringing together the entrepreneurial and innovation community. It’s about making sure people have access to investors, business partners, talent,” Aaron Price said in a phone interview with NJBIZ.
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OwnBackup adds VP of solution engineering from Salesforce
Rich Kline joins the Englewood Cliffs-based company after 11 years at Salesforce.
Read More »Port Authority wins government experience award for mobile portals project
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has earned the 2019 Government Experience Award from the Center for Digital Government for its Mobile Portals Project. The Port Authority says the project encompasses three mobile applications and four websites where real-time transit data is readily available for the millions of people who live, work, ...
Read More »Turtle & Hughes names West as president
Linden-based Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply (THIS) said it recently named Scott West as president. West had been serving as vice president and member of the Turtle & Hughes Executive Committee. THIS is a division of Turtle & Hughes, one of the nation’s largest independent electrical and industrial distributors. The announcement was made jointly by ...
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Rutgers joins $20M research project to develop the internet of the future
The platform, called FABRIC, will help scientists re-imagine and redesign cyberspace based on today’s knowledge, providing a place to test networking and cybersecurity solutions.
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Above and beyond: Businesses succeed by helping experts work even better
Corporate executives can differentiate their companies in a variety of ways, including by establishing their expertise in an industry or segment. But even experts sometimes need help.
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NVP leads $600K funding round for Riskcast Solutions
Riskcast Solutions, a startup aimed at increasing productivity and eliminating paper-based processes for the construction industry, closed a $600,000 pre-seed round, led by Newark Venture Partners. Scopus Ventures also participated in the funding round. Riskcast Solutions offers trades professionals a platform to enter all of their daily information including employee hours, production quantities, notes, daily ...
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