By Joey Ferguson English: Rasmus Lerdorf in Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Rasmus Lerdorf [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlerdorf/], the creator of the PHP programming language, will speak at Utah Open Source’s OpenWest conference [http://www.openwest.org/]. Other speakers include Phil Windley, chief technology officer of Kynetx,

By Joey Ferguson Data is a “blid spot for companies, Qualtrics [http://www.qualtrics.com/] Chief Executive Officer Ryan Smith told Forbes. “The data you need most is the data you don’t have,” Smith said in a video interview with Forbes [http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/04/

By Joey Ferguson COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS —Fusion-io, Inc. [http://www.fusionio.com/], a Utah-based solid-state memory developer, acquired Colorado-based NexGen Storage [http://www.nexgenstorage.com/] to enhance its ioMemory platform. Fusion-io paid about $114 million in cash and $5 million in stock, which will bring on 50 NexGen employees, the company

By Joey Ferguson PROVO — Personal finance software company MoneyDesktop [http://moneydesktop.com/] added Pete Halenar [https://www.linkedin.com/in/petehalenar/] as vice president of strategic partnerships and Neeraj Joshi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshi/] as group product manager. Halenar will be responsible for expanding the company’s partnership

By Joey Ferguson Matt Dunne, Google’s director of community affairs, speaks to the Provo City Council during a meeting Tuesday night. The Council voted unanimously to allow Google to purchase iProvo. PROVO, Utah — Provo’s City Council approved Google Fiber buying the iProvo internet system and offering cheaper services

By Joey Ferguson PROVO, Utah — Google Fiber will bring free, broadband internet access to Provo, the company announced. Pending approval from the Provo City Council, Google will purchase and improve iProvo, the city’s already existing fiber infrastructure, and proving limited Internet connectivity to every home within its boundaries, Provo