October 1, 2018
Comments Off on Can Idaho leverage Silicon Valley’s problems?
Idaho, particularly Boise, can become more of a tech hub as places like Silicon Valley lose their luster, but it has to take advantage of the situation, attendees of the Idaho Technology Council’s develop.idaho conference learned. The two major components ...
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September 12, 2018
Comments Off on Idaho needs to grow knowledge economy, report finds
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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August 28, 2018
Comments Off on Banyan Ventures scraps Idaho venture capital fund plan
A Salt Lake City private equity firm has decided to scrap plans to develop an Idaho-only venture capital fund. Banyan Ventures had mentioned its plans for such a fund in April at the Idaho Technology Council’s (ITC) Capital Conference, and ...
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How is a data center like a tractor? Supporters of past failed attempts to exempt data center equipment from sales taxes will be trying another tactic in the upcoming legislative session: Equating data center equipment to agricultural and manufacturing equipment. ...
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May 17, 2018
Comments Off on State’s first new software apprentices find places at Meridian tech company
A software engineering apprenticeship program developed by the Department of Labor and funded by the federal government has placed its first apprentices. “There’s truly a shortage of software talent,” said Dan Puga, president of In Time Tec LLC, in Meridian, ...
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April 18, 2018
Comments Off on Idaho Deal Flow Report: Dollars are up, numbers are down
The value of reported investment deals in Idaho last year leapt to $2.04 billion in 2017, up $1.06 billion from last year, but that was primarily due to a single transaction, according to the Deal Flow Report released April 18 ...
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March 23, 2018
Comments Off on Good news for Micron is good news for Idaho
Boise Mayor Dave Bieter has famously said, “When Micron sneezes, Boise catches a cold.” When Micron Technology Inc. is healthy, Boise and Idaho are healthy too. That’s why the company’s earnings report on March 22 was good news for the ...
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What’s the metropolitan startup hub of Idaho? Turns out it’s Coeur d’Alene. That’s according to the Brookings Institution, which recently examined the Inc. 5000 list of startups nationwide. Brookings looked at the cities with the fastest growth and made geographic ...
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June 15, 2016
Comments Off on Sky’s the limit as TSheets builds new HQ in Eagle
Homegrown companies define cities and regions. The auto industry in Detroit; William Boeing and Bill Gates in Seattle; Hewlett Packard et al in Silicon Valley; Albertsons, Simplot and Morrison Knudsen in Boise. In this new era, time tracking software producer ...
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December 18, 2015
Comments Off on An $80 million investment for Boise company’s fraud detection business
The growth equity investment world is taking notice of Idaho with an $80 million infusion announced Dec. 16 to Kount Inc., a Boise-based online and mobile credit card fraud detection technology company. Online debit and credit card fraud just now ...
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