Posted on January 6th, 2010 by David Politis
I’m now on the ground in Las Vegas, and in part, I’ll be checking in on more than 20 Utah-based companies that are going to be exhibiting their products and services to the more than 100,000 people from around the world that will attend this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show.
Among the Utah-based firms I’ve been able [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by David Politis
The latest rankings of the fastest-growing firms in Utah is out, and once again technology firms dominate the annual listing.
Produced by the MountainWest Capital Network (MWCN), the Utah 100is designed to identify and recognize the fastest-growing companies in the state (based upon percentage revenue growth). Inaugurated 15 years ago by the MWCN (then known as [...]
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Posted on April 20th, 2009 by David Politis
Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer of Google, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Hall of Fame dinner of the Utah Technology Council.
Slated for Friday, October 23, 2009, this will mark the 11th year the UTC has held a Hall of Fame dinner to honor native Utahns and those with significant ties to [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by David Politis
Workers at the IM Flash Technologies facilities in Lehi, Utah will apparently keep their jobs in spite of an announcement earlier today by its parent company, Micron Technology, to lay-off up to 2,000 employees.
Citing dropping demands for its 200 millimeter (mm) Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) products, Micron (NYSE: MU) today announced at 3:40 p.m. (MST) that it [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2009 by David Politis
It’s now nearly three weeks after the closing of the 2009 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, and my senses have almost completely recovered from being overloaded by the barrage of sights, sounds and smells that accompany any trip to Las Vegas, let alone one to attend the largest technology trade show on earth.
Now that [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by David Politis
Amy Rees Anderson, chief executive officer of MediConnect Global, was recognized last Thursday (5-15-08) as the “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the MountainWest Capital Network.
Anderson is the first woman to receive Entrepreneur of the Year honors from the MWCN. Past honorees include Dr. Wayne Evans, co-founder of Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. (NASDAQ: ESCC), Ray [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by David Politis
I apparently missed this release that ACULIS distributed last Friday, 2-22-08, specifically:
5:55 a.m. (EST) ACULIS and UVSC Partner to Construct an Advanced Software Testing Lab
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by David Politis
It’s now official: Toshiba is killing off its HD DVD format and going over to Sony’s Blu-Ray high-definition format.
I first wrote about this on January 11, 2008 (“And Da Winner Is . . . Blu-Ray”), after Warner Brothers announcement that it was moving all of its movie titles exclusively to the Blu-Ray format.
Over time, prices of [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by David Politis
Another spate of technology-related news announcements hit the commercial wire services today for Utah-based and/or Utah-related companies.
Shown below are the respective headlines and distribution times, including hotlinks to the respective releases themselves.
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5:50 a.m. (EST) ACULIS CEO James Stone Appointed President of UVSC’s Computer Science Industrial Advisory [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by David Politis
DATELINE — LINDON, BLUFFDALE & SANDY, Utah
Three major financial stories hit Utah-based technology companies last week (2-10-08 to 2-16-08):
Lindon-based SCO Group (Pink Sheets: SCOXQ) announced that it has received a $100 million offer to acquire controlling interest in SCO and take it private;
Bluffdale-based Linux Networx announced its been bought by Silicon Graphics (NASDAQ: SGIC); and
RemoteMDx (OTC [...]
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