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The most expensive part of installing fiber optic cabling to provide high-speed broadband internet to a community is the hole. Because entities such as roads, utilities and irrigation districts regularly dig up the ground anyway, some people are calling for ...

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More than half of Idaho’s technology jobs are located in the Boise area, yet even there, they represent less than 10 percent of the jobs in the area. Idaho needs to look at ways to increase the number of technology ...

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Megan Stoll got into social media management while “tirelessly trying to find full-time work” during the Great Recession. “I knew I was good at it and it didn’t interrupt my search for a more permanent position somewhere, so it made ...

WMDTech got its start in 2007 offering trainings to bomb technicians, law enforcement and the military on how to disable bombs and other threats. Now the Nampa small business makes most of its money buy selling products to those customers. ...

It’s a good time to be a woman in business. Between 1997 and 2013, the number of women-owned businesses in the United States increased by 59 percent while the overall number of businesses increased by 41 percent, according to American ...

Idaho Falls startup Stukent, which promotes itself as helping university marketing professors teach techniques of online marketing to students who may already be well-versed in the online economy, has raised $275,000 to expand, with some of that money coming from ...

A publicized acquisition of Boise tech company Affinity Amp last year did not go through, and Affinity Amp now has no full-time employees. Affinity Amp CEO Brian Sevy said the company laid off its developers in 2013 and is now ...

When Dee Mooney took her job as executive director of the Micron Foundation in 2006, the emphasis on STEM education (short for science, technology, engineering and mathematics) was so new to the mainstream that Mooney sometimes found herself explaining that ...

Involta will open a new $10.5 million data center in southwest Boise by the end of the year. Involta, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, announced that St. Luke’s Health System and WinCo Foods will be two clients for the new ...

Khamu Solutions, a Boise-based point-of-sale software provider, has purchased Boise-based digital marketing company Initiativeinc. “We’re kind of trying to become … the one-stop shop for restaurants as far as technology,” said Steve Lipkin, CEO of Khamu Solutions. Khamu Solutions builds ...