The vestiges of economic blight -- unkempt liquor stores, barred windows and condemned buildings -- are slowly vanishing as startup businesses, workspaces, art galleries and new restaurants take their place.
They include WorkMail, a cloud-based managed email and calendar service for businesses; and WorkSpaces, a desktop virtualization service that competes with products from VMware, Parallels, Microsoft and more.
Their company Web site speaks of "the three essential elements every successful business needs: productive workspace, powerful connections and effective ideas".
In a time when people are already trendily "hacking" their diet, their business model, their workspace, and their sleep schedule, why shouldn't we be tempted to hack democracy?
For those of you that don't know, Desktone is in the business of virtual workspaces - "applying server virtualization to desktops".
Bantam is an online social workspace for business coworkers.
Bantam Live, an online workspace for business teams that has "social CRM" features, joins the trend.
It is currently on Enterprise Ireland's New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Program where it received €15,000 in backing, along with workspace and business mentoring.
Bantam Live provides an online workspace for business teams that has "social CRM" features, which include a real-time dashboard stream of messaging and workflow activity along with a native CRM application.
Bantam Live, which has raised $1.7 million in funding, provides an online workspace for business teams that has "social CRM" features, which include a real-time dashboard stream of messaging and workflow activity along with a native CRM application.
