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Local marketing automation technology firm Balihoo received $5 million in funding from OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that has invested twice previously in Balihoo. CEO Pete Gombert said the money will go towards the company’s engineering team ...

The Idaho Technology Council and Boise State University are gauging interest from the region’s technology community for a program that could increase the number of computer science graduates by adding more upper-level faculty. The Idaho Department of Labor is offering ...

Web surfers are used to typing “.com,” “.org” or “.biz” at the end of Web addresses, but changes taking place this year will add around 1,900 new options.

LinkIdaho, a state program set up to improve Internet access, is asking for the public’s help in finding Idaho’s Wi-Fi dead zones. The apps for iPhones and Android devices can use up to 100 megabytes of a user’s data plan ...

As CEO and general manager of Twin Falls-based Dyna Parts, the parent company of 18 locally owned Napa Auto Parts stores, Bob Dyson is on the road every week.

WeVorce, a technology company promoting a new model of amicable divorce, got its start in Boise but will stay in the San Francisco Bay Area. Co-founder Michelle Crosby moved west to participate in the Y Combinator, a renowned three-month-long Silicon ...

Boisean Drew Hollenback has raised $8,500 so far from the crowdfunding website Kickstarter for a lightweight telescoping fishing rod called Tenkara that’s based on a Japanese fishing style. The rod has a fixed line and doesn’t have a reel, so ...

Commercial building owners spend a lot of money on lighting. In 2003, the most recent year for which data is available, buildings in America consumed approximately $108 billion worth of energy, according to the Energy Information Administration’s Commercial Buildings Consumption ...

Executives with Micron Technology Inc. are taking steps to cut about 5 percent of the company’s workforce in offices, fabrication facilities and research labs in Idaho and across the world. The cuts were announced starting Aug. 7 and come in ...

A University of Idaho researcher is working with northern Idaho’s electric utility on a new technology that could harden the ground into concrete.