August 14, 2019
Comments Off on Boise temperature sensor company acquired in $75M deal
A Chicago-area publicly-traded company has purchased Boise-based Quality Thermistor Inc. for $75 million. In a news release, CTS Corp. said its Aug. 1 acquisition of Quality Thermistor Inc., which designs and manufactures temperature sensors for an array of customers, will ...
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The founder and CEO of Greek yogurt company Chobani has opened a $21 million research and development center in south-central Idaho. Hamdi Ulukaya said at a ribbon-cutting on Monday in Twin Falls that he’s relieved the 71,000-square-foot (6,600-square meter) facility ...
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August 12, 2019
Comments Off on Pumped storage offers promise for renewable energy future
What goes up must come down. Water, coming down, can generate electricity. That’s why there are several projects underway to pump water up so it can come back down again. Such a system is called pumped storage. It lets a ...
Tagged with: Idaho Power pumped storage renewable energy
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In this virtual reality focused episode of Idaho Business Out Loud, we discuss VR arcades with Brendan Smythe, CEO of VR1 in Eagle, talking about his experience in the VR field, the story of VR1 and the possibilities of VR ...
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The 80,000 people who watched Garth Brooks in Boise in July may not have worried about a nefarious drone swooping down on the open-air stadium, but someone was looking out for them. Not far away, Black Sage Technologies, a Boise-based ...
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August 5, 2019
Comments Off on University of Idaho to play pivotal role in Dragonfly’s life on Titan experiment
MOSCOW — Is there life on Titan? The University of Idaho hopes to find out. The mission isn’t scheduled to depart Earth until 2026, but Jason Barnes, associate professor of physics in the University of Idaho’s College of Science, is working ...
Tagged with: aerospace University of Idaho
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July 31, 2019
Comments Off on Catching up with Slant 3D, as it builds a 3D printing empire
“Perfect teleportation” may sound like a sci-fi term, but for a Nampa 3D printing company, it’s a key to success. Slant 3D’s prototyping printer, The Mason – which is itself 3D printed – helps companies finalize their design before Slant 3D ...
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July 30, 2019
Comments Off on Virtual reality arcades confront business reality
Virtual reality has been the next big thing for a number of years, but, so far, VR arcades haven’t been the moneymaker that some have hoped. In December, IMAX announced it was shutting down its remaining three VR arcades, after shutting ...
Tagged with: Small Business Spotlight virtual reality
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MOSCOW – A technology employer focused on data-driven software to drive economic prosperity for its customers is doing some serious economic development of its own in the coming year. Labor analytics firm Emsi said July 26 that it will build ...
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July 24, 2019
Comments Off on Idaho may gain state broadband office
The second meeting of the broadband task force, held in Twin Falls on July 17, focused on the internet infrastructure Idaho already has. But it isn’t clear how many Idaho citizens lack broadband internet, and presentations during this meeting contradicted ...
Tagged with: broadband internet broadband task force mike kennedy
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