By Joey Ferguson Techstars (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ALPINE — Education startup Degreed has been accepted into the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, a mentoring program powered by business incubator TechStars [http://techstars.org]. The three-month program is a joint venture between Kaplan, Inc. [http://www.kaplan.com] and TechStars in which 10 startup

By Joey Ferguson PARK CITY — Shortly after Instructure Chief Executive Josh Coates ended his remarks at InstructureCon, company co-founder Brian Whitmer interrupted with a dance lesson. After schooling Coates left the stage, Whitmer entertained the crowd with his dance moves only to be interrupted by a surprise guest: Rapper MC

By Joey Ferguson BLUFFDALE —C7 Data Centers [http://www.c7dc.com/] completed its 65,000 foot Granite Point facility, which will serve as both a data center and office complex, according to a statement from the company [http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsLang=

By Joey Ferguson Brian Whitmer, co-founder of Instructure, at InstructureCon 2013[/caption] PARK CITY — Education technology experts at InstructureCon 2013 said learning software needs to be more open, and technology like APIs can facilitate the change. InstructureCon is an educational technology event hosted by Instructure that focuses on the companies

By Joey Ferguson PARK CITY — Rapper MC Hammer [http://mchammer.blogspot.com/] crashed InstructureCon 2013 shortly after Instructure [http://www.instructure.com] chief executive Josh Coates closed his remarks on leadership and “building your own awesome.” Coates used the construction Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Panama Canal as object

By Joey Ferguson PROVO — InsideSales.com will host as many as 15,000 at its Virtual Summit [http://www.insidesales.com/summit/register?a=ivs309], an online sales education event, on June 20, which will feature more than 60 experts and executives. Author Guy Kawasaki [http://www.linkedin.com/in/

By Joey Ferguson Photo: GoalZero via Twitter BLUFFDALE, Utah —Goalzero [http://www.goalzero.com/] is teaming up with AT&T [http://www.att.com] and Brooklyn design firm Pensa to install solar charging stations for mobile phones throughout New York City, according to an e-mailed statement form the company

By Joey Ferguson English: Ruby on Rails logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] PROVO — Two new developer training programs in Utah will allow students to learn programming languages, like Ruby and Python, in a matter of months. Dojo DevCamp in Provo and DevPoint Labs in Salt Lake City both want to