Posted on February 20th, 2010 by David Politis
You’d think that one of the fastest growing Social Media companies on the planet would want to do all that it could to keep people and companies flocking to its platform, creating new accounts and growing it into a worldwide behemoth, right?
And yet, Twitter’s Sign-up Page is broken, and it has been for at least the [...]
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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 May 17th, 2009 by David Politis
I attended a fun and interesting first time event this past Tuesday, an event I hope stays around for some time.
It was the inaugural launch of the Utah Genius Awards, an event designed to recognize and promote Utah’s top inventors and innovators — those in the state who are awarded the most patents or most [...]
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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 January 31st, 2009 by David Politis
In the end, it was only 55 minutes. At least that’s what the official word was on the Google blog:
“If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message “This site may harm your computer” accompanied each and every search result. This was [...]
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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 January 1st, 2009 by David Politis
It’s hard to believe that it’s time for another Consumer Electronics Show, but it’s true.
As I sit at the keyboard this New Year’s Day afternoon, CES 2009 is a week away. Wow! Where did the time go?
Since September, several colleagues and I have been busily preparing to take Schwinn Bicycles (a SOAR Communications client) and [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by David Politis
From the No. 1 ranked company to the No. 25 ranked company, 18 firms in this year’s “Top 25 Under 5″ awards program can be categorized as technology companies.
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) has been running this program for nine years now, and the Top 25 Under 5 event is designed to recognize the [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by David Politis
One of the most interesting technology-related news items to come out of Utah last week was the fact that the Mormon Church has turned to a mixture of internet video and good-old-fashioned public relations to combat lingering misperceptions between “the Salt Lake City-based church and the polygamous group in Texas that calls itself the FLDS.”
In [...]
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