Denver-based colocation provider ViaWest said today that it is building a new data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to ViaWest, it has acquired 28 acres of land in Minneapolis where it will build a Tier IV certified data center. ViaWest ...

Fort Collins-based protective case maker OtterBox has acquired another, electronics accessory maker--LifeProof, the firm said Wednesday. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. LifeProof (TreeFrog Development Inc.) was based in San Diego, ...

Boulder-based email API and services firm SendGrid has tied into the Drupal community, via a new link with Pantheon. According to SendGrid, it has partnerd with Pantheon, to allow developers building websites on Pantheon's Drupal platform access to ...

Denver-based MapQuest is not just about maps. At least, that's what the service is trying to communicate with its latest promotion. MapQuest siad this week that it is giving away one trip per day for the next 30 days, just for booking travel on the ...

Josh Fraser, one of the co-founders and most recently CEO of Torbit, the website optimization software developer which started in Boulder, but later moved to Silicon Valley, has departed the firm. In an announcement on his blog, Fraser said he is no ...

Salt Lake City-based Solera Networks, the developer of security, packet monitoring, and analytics tools, has been acquired by Blue Coat Systems. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Blue Coat said it will use the acquisition to add ...

Ascent Solar Technologies, the developer of flexible, thin film photovoltaic modules, has been steadily growing towards the consumer market, and has now decided to enter the retail store market in Colorado. The company--which started life as a ...

Boulder-based identification management software developer Symplified said today that it has named Gene Austin to its board of directors. Austin is President of Bazaarvoice, and also a served as President and CEO of Convio. Austin also has served at ...

Boulder-based amateur sports software provider TeamSnap has picked up fellow online sports site WePlay, the company said this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not announced by the companies. TeamSnap said it has acquired WePlay's technology, ...

Subscribers to Englewood, Colorado-based satellite television operator DISH can now use their Android and Apple iOS devices to access on-demand programming, the company said today. According to DISH, its updated applications for both the iPhone and ...

St. George, Utah-based Wilson Electronics said today that it has named Robert (Bob) Van Buskirk as its new President and CEO. Buskirk joins from RF Micro Device's Multi-Markets Product Group. Buskirk also joins the company's board. Buskirk also has ...

Chandler, Arizona-based 360 Vantage, a developer of cloud-based, customer relationship mangaement software, has been acquired by Connecticut-based IMS Health. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. IMS Health is a provider of healthcare ...

Scottsdale-based GoDaddy has launched an initiative to provide websites for restaurants, saying late last week that it has launched a new product specifically aimed at restaurants. The firm said it has partnered with Locu to provide tools to let ...

It's been a difficult few years for non, Silicon Valley venture capital firms, particularly in the area of raising new funds. However, one of the most active investors along the Front Range, Grotech Ventures (www.grotech.com), has bucked that ...

Colorado State University is getting into the venture capital investment game, saying this week that it has created a new, $1.5M venture capital fund specifically geared to support innovation and promote collaboration in higher education. The Fort ...

Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars has expanded its boundaries, once again, and has opened up another program--this time, in Austin, Texas. The accelerator, which honed its acceleration model in Boulder, has become quite an operation in ...

Tempe, Arizona-based IT solutions provider Avnet Technology Solutions, is taking on the bid data market. The company said it has created a new practice, specifically aimed at "big data" and analytics solutions. The new Avnet Practice+ for Analytics ...

Denver-based online polling and social site Wayin has scooped up a new customer today, the San Jose Sharks. According to Wayin, the Sharks, which are part of the National Hockey League, are using the company's services to engage Twitter followers ...

Visitors to Utah's Lagoon amusement park might not realize it, but the humble amusement park in Farmington spawned one of the famous of technology companies ever: Atari. Atari's co-founder, Nolan Bushnell, came up with the idea for the videogame ...

Provo, Utah-based sales automation software developer InsideSales.com announced Tuesday that it has boosted its partnership with Brigham Young University, and is supporting the department's Ph.D. program. InsideSales.com says it is helping out BYU's ...

Phoenix-based private equity investor Najafi Companies said this morning that it has invested in MeeGenius, which provides Android and iOS children's book apps. Financial details of the investment were not announced. According to Najafi, it is now a ...

Phoenix-based datacenter developer IO has a great big chunk of new funding today, to the tune of $260M. According to IO, which develops data center technology, it raised the $260M in financing via a multi-year credit facility. The funding was led by ...

Broomfield, Colorado-based Lanx, the medical devices developer which is developing devices used in spine surgery, has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. Lanx said the round was led by Credit Suisse Asset Management through its Customized Fund ...

It looks like 2012 was a great year for mergers and acquisition activity in Utah, according to local group the MountainWest Capital Network. The group--which keeps close tabs on deals in the state--said there was more than 110 M&A deals, totaling ...

Techstars announced the names of its 2013 summer class of startup companies today, saying that it has accepted eleven companies into the three month acceleration program. The companies included Hull.io (social application platform), LeChat ...

Grotech Ventures, one of the most active venture capital investors in the Denver/Boulder/Front Range and surrounding region, has just raised a new, $225M fund, the firm said today, its eighth venture capital fund. Grotech, which is based in Vienna, ...

Boulder-based robotic ball developer Orbotix has rolled up with $4.0M in new funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. The filing says that the firm raised $4.0M, the first tranche in an ongoing, $10.0M fundraising effort by ...

Englewood, Colorado-based colocation and managed hosting provider Latisys has added support for Microsoft's virtualization environment, Hyper-V, to its set of hosting services. Latisys said the certification of Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 allows its ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based hosting and cloud services provider OneNeck said this morning that it has signed a law firim specializing in the collections business, Hammerman & Hultgren, as a customer. OneNeck said it will help host Hammerman and ...

Boulder venture capital investors The Foundry Group has a better record than all of the venture capital firms on the Forbes Midas List, according to a report today. Fortune, citing numbers from the University of Texas Investment Management Co., ...

The acquisition of Fort Collins, Colorado-based Inviragen could be worth up to $250M for the company's backers, based on its milestones. Takeda Pharmaceutical and Inviragen announced the acquisition deal Tuesday, saying that Takeda will pay $35M ...

SolarWinds, a developer of IT management software which is based in Texas, has opened up a new office in Utah, according to reports today from the AP. SolarWinds, whose software products are used by IT administrators to manage their data centers, is ...

Scottsdale, Arizona-based GoDaddy, the online domain registrar and Internet services firm, said Wednesday that it has named Scott Wagner as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Wagner joins from GoDaddy's new owners, having most ...

Two high tech companies in the region--Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock, and Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, helped a number of venture capitalists make the ranking in the annual Forbes Midas List rankings, which was released Wednesday. Lifelock's IPO ...