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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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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Unless you’ve been locked in a cage somewhere, you know that the residential real estate market is suffering through its worst decline in decades.
Some forecasters have predicted that the outcome could thrust more than two million homeowners into foreclosure. Sounds like a tough time to be in residential real estate, right? Not if you’re the [...]
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Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development in Utah announced last week via a joint news release that the company would build a 200,000 square foot Global Information Technology (IT) facility in West Jordan, Utah, a facility that would eventually house approximately 100 employees at wages more than twice the Salt [...]
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That was the thrust of Part 1 of a two-part news report filed for Salt Lake City-based KSL radio by Marc Giaque: “Addicted to Text Messaging - Part 1.”
Giaque’s story was triggered by an editorial entitled “Issues for DSM-V: Internet Addiction” written by Jerald J. Block, M.D. and published in the March 2008 edition of The [...]
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Here’s a list of the headlines from the commercial news releases from Utah’s “tech” companies for 2-28-08.
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5:55 a.m. (EST) Utah Valley State College (UVSC) Opens New ACULIS Software Test Lab
6:05 a.m. (EST) Keynote Lecture on Hyperthermia Therapy Receives Standing Ovation at Biannual Meeting of the German [...]
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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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I hit the Gala Reception tonight of the 2008 Investors Choice Venture Capital Conference, an event held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Alta Club in Salt Lake City. It was a fun gig.
In addition to bringing Dean Cummings, 1995 World Champion Extreme Skier, as my guest to the event, I was also joined [...]
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James LeVoy Sorenson, billionaire biotech pioneer, died Sunday of prostate cancer. He was 86.
Sorenson’s influence on Utah’s biotech community began in 1957 when he co-founded Deseret Pharmaceutical. In 1962, a formed Sorenson Research, which he later sold to Abbott Laboratories.
A quick visit to the Sorenson Companies Website shows nine different biotech or high-tech entities within the Sorenson [...]
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DRAPER, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO — Draper, Utah-based AdvancedMD today announced it has been acquired by Francisco Partners, a private equity company with $5 billion under management.
Financial details of the transaction were not released.
AdvancedMD’s current CEO, Jim Pack, will relinquish his position with the company; John Trzeciak, a healthcare advisor at Francisco Partners, will assume [...]
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