St. George, Utah-based Wilson Electronics said today that it has named Robert (Bob) Van Buskirk as its new President and CEO. Buskirk joins from RF Micro Device's Multi-Markets Product Group. Buskirk also joins the company's board. Buskirk also has ...

Chandler, Arizona-based 360 Vantage, a developer of cloud-based, customer relationship mangaement software, has been acquired by Connecticut-based IMS Health. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. IMS Health is a provider of healthcare ...

Scottsdale-based GoDaddy has launched an initiative to provide websites for restaurants, saying late last week that it has launched a new product specifically aimed at restaurants. The firm said it has partnered with Locu to provide tools to let ...

It's been a difficult few years for non, Silicon Valley venture capital firms, particularly in the area of raising new funds. However, one of the most active investors along the Front Range, Grotech Ventures (www.grotech.com), has bucked that ...

Colorado State University is getting into the venture capital investment game, saying this week that it has created a new, $1.5M venture capital fund specifically geared to support innovation and promote collaboration in higher education. The Fort ...

Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars has expanded its boundaries, once again, and has opened up another program--this time, in Austin, Texas. The accelerator, which honed its acceleration model in Boulder, has become quite an operation in ...

Tempe, Arizona-based IT solutions provider Avnet Technology Solutions, is taking on the bid data market. The company said it has created a new practice, specifically aimed at "big data" and analytics solutions. The new Avnet Practice+ for Analytics ...

Denver-based online polling and social site Wayin has scooped up a new customer today, the San Jose Sharks. According to Wayin, the Sharks, which are part of the National Hockey League, are using the company's services to engage Twitter followers ...

Visitors to Utah's Lagoon amusement park might not realize it, but the humble amusement park in Farmington spawned one of the famous of technology companies ever: Atari. Atari's co-founder, Nolan Bushnell, came up with the idea for the videogame ...

Provo, Utah-based sales automation software developer InsideSales.com announced Tuesday that it has boosted its partnership with Brigham Young University, and is supporting the department's Ph.D. program. InsideSales.com says it is helping out BYU's ...

Phoenix-based private equity investor Najafi Companies said this morning that it has invested in MeeGenius, which provides Android and iOS children's book apps. Financial details of the investment were not announced. According to Najafi, it is now a ...

Phoenix-based datacenter developer IO has a great big chunk of new funding today, to the tune of $260M. According to IO, which develops data center technology, it raised the $260M in financing via a multi-year credit facility. The funding was led by ...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Lanx, the medical devices developer which is developing devices used in spine surgery, has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. Lanx said the round was led by Credit Suisse Asset Management through its Customized Fund ...

It looks like 2012 was a great year for mergers and acquisition activity in Utah, according to local group the MountainWest Capital Network. The group--which keeps close tabs on deals in the state--said there was more than 110 M&A deals, totaling ...

Techstars announced the names of its 2013 summer class of startup companies today, saying that it has accepted eleven companies into the three month acceleration program. The companies included Hull.io (social application platform), LeChat ...

Grotech Ventures, one of the most active venture capital investors in the Denver/Boulder/Front Range and surrounding region, has just raised a new, $225M fund, the firm said today, its eighth venture capital fund. Grotech, which is based in Vienna, ...

Boulder-based robotic ball developer Orbotix has rolled up with $4.0M in new funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. The filing says that the firm raised $4.0M, the first tranche in an ongoing, $10.0M fundraising effort by ...

Englewood, Colorado-based colocation and managed hosting provider Latisys has added support for Microsoft's virtualization environment, Hyper-V, to its set of hosting services. Latisys said the certification of Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 allows its ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based hosting and cloud services provider OneNeck said this morning that it has signed a law firim specializing in the collections business, Hammerman & Hultgren, as a customer. OneNeck said it will help host Hammerman and ...

Boulder venture capital investors The Foundry Group has a better record than all of the venture capital firms on the Forbes Midas List, according to a report today. Fortune, citing numbers from the University of Texas Investment Management Co., ...

The acquisition of Fort Collins, Colorado-based Inviragen could be worth up to $250M for the company's backers, based on its milestones. Takeda Pharmaceutical and Inviragen announced the acquisition deal Tuesday, saying that Takeda will pay $35M ...

SolarWinds, a developer of IT management software which is based in Texas, has opened up a new office in Utah, according to reports today from the AP. SolarWinds, whose software products are used by IT administrators to manage their data centers, is ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based GoDaddy, the online domain registrar and Internet services firm, said Wednesday that it has named Scott Wagner as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Wagner joins from GoDaddy's new owners, having most ...

Two high tech companies in the region--Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock, and Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, helped a number of venture capitalists make the ranking in the annual Forbes Midas List rankings, which was released Wednesday. Lifelock's IPO ...

Salt Lake City-based flash storage firm Fusion-io is in a big management shakeup this morning, saying that it has named Shane Robison as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. Robison replaces CEO and President David Flynn, which the ...

Denver-based cloud hosting provider PeakColo said today that it has signed on a provider of software and services for the telecommunications industry as a customer. PeakColo said it has been selected by Subex, to power software and applications via ...

Boulder-based Confio, the developer of database performance monitoring tools headed by Matt Larson, is expanding its distribution in the UK. The firm said it has selected Arrow Electronics as its official distributor in the country for its database ...

Mobile video sharing and discovery app Krowds, which was recently released by Englewood, Colorado-based Pixorial, is now available on Android. Pixorial, which develops online video editing and collaboration applications, said that the free app lets ...

Boulder-based venture capital firm Foundry Group is the lead investor in a developer of media pulbishing tools, Chute. Chute announced a $7M, Series A funding round this morning, led by Foundry Group, and also including Freestyle Capital and U.S. ...

Wish you had a better way to share and view your family videos and photos? Scottsdale, Arizona-based iMemories, which helps digitize and let people store and share their videos and photos online, has a big new partnership today: Walgreens. According ...

Lindon, Utah-based Voice-over-IP services developer Alianza announced this morning that it has hired on two new executives to its team. The firm said it has named Mark Gardner as Vice President of Global Sales and Kevin Mitchell as Vice President of ...

Denver-based healthcare service provider TriZetto, is in a major, executive shakeup. The firm said late Friday that it's CEO, Trace Devanny, is leaving the company, to "pursue other opportunities". The firm said it is now looking for a permanent ...

Salt Lake City-based medical device manufacturer Clinical Innovations, which is backed by The Pritzker Group, said this week that it has named a new President and CEO. Clinical Innovations said it named Shacey Petrovic as President and CEO of the ...

Bozeman, Montana-basd online scheduling software developer Schedulicity has named a new CEO, the company said this week. Schedulicity, which provides its online scheduling software to small businesses, said that it has named Joshua Spitzer as its ...