Last month, I wrote a post about software tools for conference-goers in which I asked for reader input: “If you were designing a mobile app specifically for attending academic conferences, what ...

Portland startup CrowdCompass, which makes smartphone apps for conferences, plans to announce this morning that it has sold its business to a Virginia software company called Cvent for $10 million.

Los Angeles-based mobile apps developer Mobile Roadie is powering a couple of apps for conferences, saying this week that its software is being used for an app for the Internet Marketing Association ...