A booming Idaho plant-based food company is looking to expand, not just in products but in markets. Melt saw $1 million in sales for the first time in the third quarter. The company’s plant-based butter is now sold in 12,000 locations ...
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November 26, 2019
Comments Off on Them’s fightin’ words: Xerox, HP spar over acquisition
After HP rejected its acquisition offer, Xerox is playing hardball with a hostile takeover or proxy war. John Visentin, Xerox vice chairman and CEO, does not mince words in a letter to Enrique Lores, who became HP president and CEO on Nov. 1, and ...
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November 22, 2019
Comments Off on Need for speed? New maps show where you can find 5G in the Treasure Valley
Verizon has released maps of its 5G coverage in Idaho showing exactly where in Boise and Meridian people can expect to get the high-speed wireless service. The company made the service available in the Treasure Valley on Sept. 26 after ...
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November 22, 2019
Comments Off on Boise State gets grant for cybersecurity certificate
Boise State University has received more than $800,000 from the Idaho Workforce Development Council to help jump-start its cybersecurity certificate. The university first started talking about the 12-credit certificate – a two-semester online program that does not require a computer ...
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November 22, 2019
Comments Off on Idaho National Laboratory leading the charge on microgrids
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series on Idaho National Laboratory. IDAHO FALLS – Electrical transmission consists of four main parts: The things that produce electricity, the things that consume electricity, the things that store electricity and ...
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November 21, 2019
Comments Off on SMHeuristics brings back deals from Taiwan trade mission
SMHeuristics, which participated in the recent trade mission to Taiwan and Hong Kong with Gov. Brad Little, came home with a lot more than postcards and T-shirts: Four memoranda of understanding and meetings with 17 companies. “The relationships have been ...
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November 20, 2019
Comments Off on HP rejects Xerox offer but leaves the door open
HP rejected a bid from Xerox to buy the company but indicated it was willing to keep talking about some sort of merger. “Our Board of Directors has reviewed and considered your unsolicited proposal dated November 5, 2019 at a ...
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A call center that served Google Fiber customers in other states has been shut down. Google never offered the high-speed internet service in Boise, but operated the call center in subleased space on the former HP campus on Chinden. “We’ve ...
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Following the lead of other small Idaho cities such as Ammon and Emmett, McCall is creating a fiber-optic infrastructure, Rapid McCall, to provide up to 1 gigabit per second internet service to homes by next summer. McCall will install, own ...
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November 15, 2019
Comments Off on BVA breaks ground on another Ten Mile Crossing building
MERIDIAN – In the latest of a steady stream this year of groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, Ball Ventures Ahlquist ceremoniously broke ground on another new building at Ten Mile Crossing on Nov. 15 – with more to come. The tenant of ...
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