By Joey Ferguson Scott Paul, chief executive officer of Voto, an mobile photo polling app. MIDVALE, Utah — Photo voting startup Voto [https://votoapp.com/] is looking to raise $1.2 million after the company’s installed user base shot past 300,000 in less than six months. The iPhone app

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY — After 54 hours of work, Wizard Wars, a mobile player vs. player online game, won first place during the Startup Weekend [http://saltlakecity.startupweekend.org/] event at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, while Map It Track It took second and Ultimate Mediator went

Pandas, scooters and lots of conference rooms. Instructure’s new facility in Cottonwood Heights (map) is full of surprises and open space. Instructure is taking up 3.5 floors of the building with about 125,000 square feet of space, said chief financial officer Steve Kaminsky. The company now has

By Joey Ferguson Hack Night SLC [http://www.hacknightslc.com/], a gathering of software developers, designers, server admins and others in tech related fields, will hold it’s fourth event at Neutron Interactive on May 23 and will include co-working and presentations. “Hack Night SLC is an opportunity for the

By Joey Ferguson Space Monkey raised more than $340,000 on Kickstarter [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clintgc/space-monkey-taking-the-cloud-out-of-the-datacente] to help create a network of computer backup hard drives. With Space Monkey, users pay $10 per month to back up 1 terabyte of data. By comparison cloud backup service Dropbox

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —SolarWinds Inc. [http://www.solarwinds.com/], a Texas-based IT management software company, will add more than 1,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in wages to Utah over 20 years as it brings its operation to the state. “Utah’s Information & Technology strategic

By Joey Ferguson At work John Fenley [https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-fenley-2b675236/] sits in a desk next to his “co-workers.” But unlike a traditional office, he is a sole proprietor of a technology startup. Welcome to co-working, where freelancers and startup companies work alongside one another. Three such places

By Joey Ferguson English: Black diamond run Snowchaser at Powder Mountain ski resort (Photo credit: Wikipedia) EDEN, Utah —Summit Series [http://www.summit.co], a Utah-based entrepreneurial events firm, announced today it has finalized the $40 million deal to purchase Powder Mountain Ski Resort [http://www.powdermountain.com] after 20-months