By Joey Ferguson LINDON — Utah-based Alianza, creator of cloud-based voice platforms, announced it is adding two vice presidents to its executive team. Mark Gardner will be vice president of global sales, while Kevin Mitchell will be vice president of marketing for Alianza. “Kevin and Mark are perfect additions to our

By Joey Ferguson Rick Farnell, president of Think Big Analytics Photo: Linkedin.com PARK CITY —Rick Farnell [http://thinkbiganalytics.com/about/leading_big_data_experts/rick-farnell-co-founder-and-president/] , president of Think Big Analytics [http://thinkbiganalytics.com/], a Mountain View, California-based data firm, says his company is “a revolution on par with the

By Joey Ferguson I released my first app one year ago yesterday. It started as a small side project with the explicit goal of paying my rent. As of yesterday it’s done $73,034 in net revenue, after Apple’s cut. While not considered “VC” successful, I’m extremely

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Genius honored several Utah inventors and tramark registrants for their creativity, including Merit Medical chief executive Fred Lampropoulos who received a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Utah Genius awards were presented by Bateman IP Law Group. “We are consistently impressed with the volume of

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE CITY —Rakuten MediaForge [http://mediaforge.com/], which provides online advertising technology, said its customer base by 32 percent since it was acquired by Rakuten in September. Total engagements in the company’s online ads more than doubled, while total impressions jumped 79 percent. “As we

By Joey Ferguson SALT LAKE — Online lending platform Lendio saw 168 percent year-over-year customer growth in the first quarter of 2013, according to a statement from the company [http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/4/prweb10684611.htm]. The Utah-based company added 62 new banks, credit unions and other lender to

By Joey Ferguson David Flynn, chief executive officer of Fusion-io Inc., and John Spiers, CEO of NexGen Storage [http://www.nexgenstorage.com/], give insights into their recent acquisition in a presentation at Storage Field Day, a part of Tech Field Day held in Denver. Fusion-io paid about $114 million in

By Joey Ferguson PROVO — Camp 4, a shared-workspace and resource provider for startups, opened its doors and will offer incubation and co-working space in its new facility in Provo. The new facility, called Camp 4, is a collaboration of Innovation Network, BoomStartup, The Startup Group and the Provo City Mayor’