Riding the Social Mobile Wave: Three Firms Seek to Satisfy Their Appetite for Growth

Ambitious Growth Path Led LiveOps to Acquire Social Smarts

Redwood City, Calif. – Asked what LiveOps is all about, president and CEO Marty Beard says, “We’re quietly disrupting what used to be a traditionally sleepy space.”

To be more precise, LiveOps provides its 350 to 400 enterprise clients –including some of the biggest corporations in the country – with cloud-based technology that allows their call centers to seamlessly integrate telephone, email and social media customer interaction. More

For Wajam, Hiring Remains Growth’s Greatest Blessing and Burden

Montreal — With 45 employees populating its Montreal, Quebec, headquarters, Wajam can safely weigh in as a middle-market firm — one seemingly a world apart from the 10-member start-up it was only a year ago.

A lot has happened inside Wajam over the past year. As an up-and-coming player in the social search space, Wajam has over the last 12 months advanced beyond the desktop into the mobile world, allowing iPhone users to access its social recommendations.

“Our goal was to insert social content into third-party apps on the iPhone. This was not possible technologically speaking, and when something is not possible I tell my guys, ‘Let’s figure out a way to make it possible.’ More

For iTech US, Mobile Ambitions Became Too Much for One Firm

Dallas — When it came time to maneuver his technology consulting firm deep into yet another realm of IT development, iTech US CEO Kishore Khandavalli repeated the steps that he had taken multiple times before.

First, he gathered critical research. Second, he made some informed bets as to what types of services his customers would likely want to buy. More