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Business Tech: Cost of cybersecurity keeps going up, but its importance isn't going down

By David Black You don’t need to be a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) to see how debilitating a cyberattack is for small businesses and e-commerce sites. As the volume of attacks continue to increase, all businesses need to take every provision to…

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Tech gathering receives capital infusion from state Legislature

By Brice Wallace A nascent gathering of tech junkies just got a financial boost. The annual Silicon Slopes Tech Summit, in just its third year but expecting perhaps 20,000-25,000 attendees later this month, has received a commitment from the Governor’s Office of Economic…

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Shared office company will add 250 jobs as it expands in Utah

A company that provides shared office and meeting space and online meeting software is expanding in Utah, planning to add 250 jobs over the next five years. Salt Lake City-based Teem LLC, which was acquired last year by New York-based WeWork, made the announcement after being…

Housing prices drive CPI with another record

Housing price hikes along the Wasatch Front didn’t take the holidays off like they usually do. For the second consecutive month, home prices in December set a year-over-year record for growth, according to the Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI). The 0.4 percent…

Point of the Mountain Board Authority looking for director to oversee development

The Point of the Mountain Board Authority, the body charged with the disposition of land where the Utah State Prison now stands, is searching for an executive director to oversee the process of developing the site once the prison has been relocated. “This is one of the largest…

Ride Systems merges with Indianapolis firm

Morgan-based Ride Systems LLC and DoubleMap Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana, have merged their vehicle-tracking software companies to form Journey Holding Corp. The new firm is now considered the largest public transit tracking system provider in North America, according to a…

Arizona fashion software company buys Salt Lake's Red Wire Group sewing operation

Salt Lake City-based Red Wire Group LLC, a contract sewing manufacturer, has been acquired by 12 ReTech Corp., a retail fashion shopping software company with U.S. headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, and operations in Europe and Asia. The stock-for-stock transaction is…

Lassonde launches Entrepreneur Challenge

The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has opened registration for the 2018-19 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. The statewide business competition is open to university students in Utah. Teams compete for $100,000 in cash…

Parker new president at SCM

Rodney R. Parker, a shareholder at Snow Christensen & Martineau, has been appointed president of the firm. His appointment was effective Jan. 1. Parker replaces Andrew M. Morse, who has served as the firm’s president since 2011. Parker leads the firm’s appellate practice. His…

Children of wealthy want their parents’ values more than wealth, survey finds

More than nine in 10 Generation Z and millennial children of millionaires say the most important thing they will inherit is their parents’ values, not their wealth, according to a recent survey by Wells Fargo Private Bank. More than four out of five (84 percent) say they want to…

Legal Matters: Opportunity zones and opportunity funds in Utah

As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a new tax incentive program was created to encourage economic development in distressed communities. Within these communities, specific “qualified opportunity zones” or “opportunity zones” were designated by the governors of all 50 states.…

Overstock axes 100 in return-to-profitability effort

John Rogers It hasn’t been a very good year for Midvale-based Overstock.com Inc. The online retailer lost big-time in the equities market in December, with its stock plunging 31 percent compared to a 9 percent slump in the S&P 500. The decline closed out a brutal year for…

Zion & Bryce still open; money running out

By Brice Wallace While state and partner money to keep basic services operating at Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks could last for a few weeks, if not months, state officials believe another funding authorization will be needed soon. In response to a partial federal…

White Mesa Mill back in vanadium production after five-year hiatus

By John Rogers Energy Fuels Inc. is refining the little-known metal vanadium at its White Mesa Mill south of Blanding for the first time since 2013. Best known as the only operating conventional uranium production facility in the United States, the White Mesa Mill discontinued…

Utah payment processor to expand, add jobs

By Brice Wallace A payment processing solutions company will expand in Utah and add 300 jobs in the next few years. Galileo Processing Inc. made the announcement after being approved for a $2.4 million tax credit incentive last week by the Governor’s Office of Economic…

Film Commission touts busy 2018, looks ahead to 2019

The year 2018 was a busy one for the Utah Film Commission, as 550 film permits were approved across the state and 16 productions received incentives to shoot in Utah. The incentivized productions include feature films, four series, two documentaries and a TV pilot. The…

Auric Solar buys Solaroo

Auric Energy of West Valley City has acquired West Jordan-based Solaroo Energy, a competing rooftop solar installation company serving Utah and Colorado. The acquisition reflects opportunities to offer a greater range of products and services to clients at all scale of projects,…

Cox: Utah rebounds in rankings of tech concentration, dynamism

By Brice Wallace Last month, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox decried Utah’s slip in a Milken Institute ranking of states based on technology concentration and dynamism. Utah had fallen to 13th in 2016 despite holding the top spot for a decade. Well, Utah has regained its No. 1…

Utah Economic Summit set for Friday

One of the most prominent Utah economic events in the early part of 2019 takes place this week. The Utah Economic Outlook and Policy Summit, hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber in collaboration with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, takes place Jan. 18,…

J.P. Morgan Private Bank hires staff, opens Salt Lake City office

J.P. Morgan has announced that it is expanding its Private Bank into Utah by opening a local office in Salt Lake City. Financial advisors Brian Swenson and Eric Smith will lead a team of local professionals who provide wealth management advice, strategies and services to…

Outdoor products company to expand HQ, create 155 jobs

Brice Wallace A globally recognized sporting goods company is deepening its roots in Ogden. Amer Sports Winter & Outdoor Co., which has had operations in Ogden since 2007, will expand its headquarters for its U.S. outdoor business and build a distribution center. The…

New numbers suggest Utah job-growth slowdown

Job growth in Utah seems to be slowing as year-over-year numbers are coming up a few tenths of a point below previous months. Utah’s nonfarm payroll employment for November grew by an estimated 2.9 percent, adding 43,000 jobs to the economy since November 2017, meaning Utah’s…

Doubts creeping into Utah attitude about the future

Economic conditions in Utah remain strong but the state’s consumers are beginning to show some reservations about the future. The Zions Bank Utah Consumer Attitude Index (CAI) dropped 4.7 points to 115.8 in December. Anything above 100 still shows confidence in the economy, but…

SkyWest Inc. sells unprofitable ExpressJet Airlines to United joint venture

St. George-based SkyWest Inc. has announced a deal to sell its ExpressJet Airlines Inc. subsidiary to ManaAir — a joint venture of United Continental and KAir Enterprises, an airline investment company — for $70 million in cash and the assumption of the liabilities of…

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