By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY — Utah governor Gary Herbert and a group of small businesses will head to the United Kingdom on a trade mission [http://www.bmetrack.com/c/v?e=2EC8C0&c=47EA9&l=322D435&email=vl59RUFNHHBVZ0Oycco1So9nNPuw6lIV&relid=C6EC164] where they will network

By Joey Ferguson BLUFFDALE — The Utah tech community has plenty of software as a service providers, app developers and hardware manufacturers. Now, thanks to the NSA [http://www.nsa.gov/] and $2 billion, it has a million square-foot data facility nestled in the hills of Bluffdale. In case you don’

By Joey Ferguson The Battle Ready Vehicle (or BRV) by Braven[/caption] PROVO —Braven [http://www.braven.com/] is taking on competitors Bose and Jawbone as it works towards the perfect speaker. So far its making a strong case after selling 100,000 units in the first seven months. Since

By Joey Ferguson Photo: Maurizio Zanetti via Flickr[/caption] SALT LAKE CITY — Information technology hiring may slow in Salt Lake as 22 percent of CIOs say they plan to put expansions on hold, up from 19 percent in the second quarter, according to a report from Robert Half Technology [http:

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —Needle Inc. [http://www.needle.com/] hired Scott Pulsipher [http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10230567&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2], former general manager of Amazon Webstore [http://webstore.amazon.com/], as president and chief operating officer. Needle helps e-commerce companies

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —Wasatch Institute of Technology [http://www.wasatchinstitute.net/], a new charter school that focuses on computer sciences, wants to prepare young programmers for careers and higher education with new approaches to teaching based on agile software development [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_

By Joey Ferguson The Salt Lake Capital building. (Dougtone via Flickr)[/caption] SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation [http://foundation.uschamber.com/] named Utah the third best state in the country for science, technology, engineering and mathematics jobs and the best-performing state in the Enterprising States

By Joey Ferguson Unbeknownst to many locals a number of very successful iPhone, iPad and Mac apps have come out of Utah. Some you’ve probably already heard of but didn’t know were based here. Others have quietly grown into large businesses. Really it’s no surprise that strong