Englewood, Colorado-based BitWise Controls, a developer of IP-enabled control systems for the home and commercial automation market, reported today that it has received a strategic investment from Denver-based ProLink Solutions. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. BitWise develops products which allow TVs, DVD players, lighting control, and other products to be monitored by iPhone applications and PC software. BitWise is headed by Lance Beck....Continue →

Grow Utah Ventures named Pixelture, a developer of a product to connect notebooks and smart phones to connect wirelessly to displays, as winner of the group's latest "Concept to Company" contest. Grow Utah said it awarded $35,000 in cash and consluting services to Pixelture, as its grand winner, and also awarded $15,00 in cash and consulting to runners up Holorad and Ripplewake....Continue →

Boulder, Colorad-based ProStor, a developer of removable hard disk format and related products, has received $5M in an investment from Imation Corp.. Imation announced the deal today in conjunction with a new, license agreement with ProStor on its RDX removable disk format. Imation said that it had signed a 10-year license extension on RDX, giving it rights to manufacture, market, and sell RDX removable hard disk systems through 2020. ProStor develops a 2....Continue →

Lindon, Utah-based Footnote.com, which operates an online collection of historical documents, announced today that it is opening up all of its U.S. census documents for free for a limited time. The site--which caters to people researching their family history and genealogy--said the additional information will help its users find people related to ancestors in historical documents. The firm did not say how long it would be making the census information available to users for free....Continue →

Salt Lake City-based AdvancedMD, a developer of software-as-a-service tools for electronic health record (EHR) management, announced today that it has hired William H. Stone as its Vice President and General Manager of Billing Services. Stone was most recently at MED3000, a healthcare management and technology company, where he had served for 11 and a half years....Continue →

Boulder, Colorado-based Webroot said today that it has appointed Elizabeth Andora as the firm's Vice President of Human Resources. Andora joins the firm from Sun Microsystems, where she was Director of Human Resources for Mergers and Acquisitions, heading up that company's efforts to integrate acquired companies and employees. Andora has also served at Hewlett Packard, RJR Nabisco, and Alexander and Alexander Consulting Group. Continue →

Taking a cue from startup incubation efforts YCombinator and TechStars, a new business incubation program, BoomStartup, has launched in Utah. The new incubator, headed by angel investor John Richards and involving Omniture CEO and co-founder Josh James, said it will provide money, mentors, and other resources for technology entrepreneurs. BoomStartup said it will be running four-month, mentorships programs starting in May for potential entrepreneurs....Continue →

Salt Lake City-based C7 Data Centers has been tapped for colocation by Provo, Utah-based eFileCabinet, the firms said today. Financial details of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed. C7 Data Center said that it will provide colocation services for eFileCabinet's electronic document management system, file sharing services, and online backup offerings.
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Scottsdale, Arizona-based 41st Parameter, a venture backed developer of fraud detection and prevention software, said this week that it has named David Walker as its SVP Worldwide Sales. Walker was most recent SVP Business Development at Solidcore Systems, which was acquired by McAfee. 41st Parameter is venture backed by JAFCO American Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and Norwest Venture Partners.Continue →

Scottsdale, Arizona-based Go Daddy announced today that it has just surpassed 40 million, registered domain names on its service. Go Daddy, which provides Internet domain name registration and related services, said it typically registers a million domain names per month; the firm claims it has a 50 percent market share of all active new domains registered in the world....Continue →

Denver-based MapQuest said today that the firm is looking to attract developers to its mapping platform, with a new set of web services. The firm said that its new MapQuest Platform 6.0 is debuting at SXSW in Austin, and will offer such services at creating static maps, directions, geocoding, real time traffic, and geographic search. The firm offers both a free and and enterprise versions of its APIs, which compete against similar mapping offerings from Google and Microsoft....Continue →