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Go Utah's year: Good, but not as good

Brice Wallace While a state agency is boasting it had a “historic and prosperous year” during the most recent fiscal year, most of its incentivized economic development project figures were substantially off from the record-setting prior year. A recent news release from the…

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UEOC makes study of AI impact a priority of several committees

Brice Wallace AI has been quite the buzzword lately, and a state commission is looking into several elements of the revolutionary technology. Among the top priorities for the Unified Economic Opportunity Commission is investigating AI’s impact on workforce, education and data…

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Utahns are feeling better about things

Utah’s consumer sentiment rose in June to its highest level in more than a year, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumer Sentiment released last week. The index rose to 76.3 last month, up from 71.0 in May. A similar survey by the University of…

Three must-haves to survive and thrive as an economic downturn looms

Nate Callister Following the end of the global pandemic and amid a steady diet of Fed interest rate hikes, businesses are reevaluating their financial direction and priorities to adjust to a “new normal.” For months, economists and news reports have alluded to a looming economic…

New firm relaunches Brydge

Park City’s Brydge Technologies, a maker of keyboards, docking stations and hubs for Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface Pro tablets, folded earlier this year with its brand name, assets and intellectual property being sold in a foreclosure proceeding. Now, a new company,…

Study finds many government IT departments are vulnerable

Thirty-six percent of government IT departments nationwide do not have a documented disaster recovery plan, according to a new study released by Arcserve, a provider of backup, recovery and data storage solutions based in Draper. The findings are included in the first segment of…

Survey: AI generating excitement and fear

Even as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an unavoidable part of the cultural landscape, its role in the workplace hasn’t been fully defined, and that lack of clarity is leaving some employees on edge, according to new research from Provo-based experience management platform…

Work Daze: Summer vacations or sucker vacations? You decide

Bob Goldman It’s been a tough year, and you’ve been working hard. But now it’s summer and you know what that means: Vacation, baby! Vacation! Do you deserve a week or 10 of primo vacay? Most def. Should you take it? No way! Whatever amount of vacation time is allotted to you,…

Consumers like old-fashioned, live customer service best

Americans aren’t very tolerant of poor customer service, according to a new study from St. George’s TCN Inc., a cloud-based call center platform for enterprises, contact centers, business process outsource companies and collection agencies. TCN’s “Consumer Insights about…

Innovate Utah: NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

Utah startup Sego Innovations has begun marketing its Sego Solar Charger . Founded by a team of origami experts and engineers, Sego is based at Research Park on the University of Utah campus. Founders Jacob Sheffield and Ian Esplin developed the origami-based solar charger after…

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Industry Briefs 7-17-23

Industry Briefs are provided as a free service to our readers. Company news information may be sent to brice@slenterprise.com . The submission deadline is one week before publication. BANKING Bank of Utah , Ogden, has hired Dirk Wilson as mortgage loan officer, working out of…