Amid transitions, CradlePoint is growing 
POSTED: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 09:05 AM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Boise tech company CradlePoint, which makes networking routers and software, is adding 50 employees and new production space in Boise this year as the company expects strong growth continue. The company has shifted from selling individual routers to individual consumers to selling to larger businesses, and is poised to shift to expanding its software offerings. [...]
Office equipment companies poised to move into IT
POSTED: Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Boise Office Equipment, Fisher's Document Systems, Freemanz.net, information technology, Xenial Technology
Fisher’s Document Systems has been adapting to the changing office supply environment for 70 years. When typewriters went out of style, the company moved on to provide and service printers, fax machines and copiers for local businesses. It sold its office furniture and other office supply arms to Office Max in 1995 to focus on [...]
NetCamps provides paperwork relief for camp organizers
POSTED: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 02:08 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Chris Chattin started his company just a year ago to help athletic coaches organize thousands of sign-ups for kids’ sports camps. But he quickly changed how his company, NetCamps, would work with coaches and high school and college athletic programs. Chattin himself ended up creating a new software platform that is now being used by [...]
ZenDesk: Expansion still requires ‘organic growth’
POSTED: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 09:21 AM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
During a talk on how his company ZenDesk has grown, CEO and co-founder Mikkel Svane offered some advice for how Boise can attract companies and workers in the software sector. Svane headlined the Idaho Technology Council Software Alliance’s develop.idaho conference, outlining how ZenDesk, a cloud-based customer service software company based in San Francisco, has made [...]
Micron posts $286 million in quarterly losses
POSTED: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 05:10 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Micron Technology Inc. posted quarterly losses of $286 million, which is slightly larger than losses in the previous quarter and a year ago. The company posted stronger sales and a higher gross margin, with large non-operating losses connected in part to planned acquisitions of Japanese Chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc. and Taiwan-based Rexchip Electronics Corp. The [...]
Boise competition has buildings vying for energy efficiency supremacy
POSTED: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 09:22 AM PTBY: Cady McGovern
Over the next 14 months, 50 commercial buildings in the Boise metro area will compete for bragging rights as the most energy efficient building in the Treasure Valley. And even if they don’t win, local building managers say saving money will be a sweet consolation prize. Idaho Power, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s BetterBricks Initiative [...]
Drones on the range: Commerce director aims for test site in Idaho
POSTED: Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 02:31 PM PTBY: Scott Ki
The Idaho Department of Commerce is leading an effort to convince the Federal Aviation Administration to select the state as one of six drone test sites in the United States. But the competition is fierce, with dozens of states in the running. The FAA intends to use these sites to study and develop ways to [...]
22 Touch hiring plan would triple staff
POSTED: Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 01:04 PM PTBY: Scott Ki
Executives at 22 Touch LLC plan to launch the latest version of the company’s software in March. According to an outline of the business plan, they hope to reach an audience of 500,000 potential users by spring, raise money from angel and venture capital investors, and add 17 workers before the year is out. At [...]
Micron to sell Italian subsidiary and fabrication facility
POSTED: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 04:11 PM PTBY: Scott Ki
Micron Technology Inc. wants to shed its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Italy. The Boise maker of memory chips agreed to sell its Italian subsidiary and facility in Avezzano to German company LFoundry. As part of a four-year agreement, LFoundry will continue to supply sensors to Aptina Imaging Corporation of San Jose, Calif. Micron will also [...]
Study says Idaho must do more to help existing businesses
POSTED: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM PTBY: Scott Ki
Affinity Amp executives planned to hire a dozen or more workers in 2012. Instead, they let four people go between June and August. CEO and co-founder Brian Sevy cited problems with investment funding and responded with changes in strategy. “Based on the number of people that we had, it probably grew a little too quickly,” [...]
