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Legal Matters: 'Hey, that’s my idea!' Why protecting your ideas requires more than being first.

By R. Parrish Freeman As the legendary racecar driver Ricky Bobby once said, “If you ain’t first, you’re last!” Couple of problems with that. First, Ricky Bobby doesn’t exist, except in our hearts. Second, he’s just wrong. If you’re not first, you could be second, third, fourth…

RPR. Parrish Freeman

Oct 12

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Succeeding in Your Business: And how about the CCPA? Do I have to comply with it, too?

By Cliff Ennico Last week’s column dealt with the thorny topic of whether or not a web-based business really needs to comply with the European Union’s new (well, fairly new) General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Since the GDPR was made effective in May 2018, a number of…

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Oct 12

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Industry Briefs

Industry Briefs 10-12-20

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. CONTESTS • The application deadline for the 2020-21 University of Utah Opportunity Quest…

A lot more questions than there are answers: When you require your employees to return to the office, are you liable if any of them contract coronavirus?

By John Rogers As employers struggle to deal with the “new normal” of trying to maintain their business operations in a time of pandemic, there’s at least one legal issue that continues to gnaw at owners and managers and cause no little stress in the board room. Many businesses…

Misclassifying employees as independent contractors could be costly for your business

By Kathleen D. Weron Employee classification is the practice of labeling workers as either employees or independent contractors. A worker classified as an independent contractor is not covered by basic labor standards, such as minimum wage, overtime pay, workers’ compensation…

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Oct 12

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Focus

CONTENT MANAGEMENT: There's a modern alternative to the law office file room

By Bahar Ferguson Law firms are like many other businesses when it comes to information technology — at least in some ways. Any type of business or organization must have some basic document management in place to ensure files don’t get lost or misplaced and basic cybersecurity…

Exploring investment bank engagement agreements in sell-side M&A transactions

By Thomas R. Taylor When the owners of a business decide to sell their company, they will generally engage an investment bank (iBank) to assist with the transaction. An experienced iBank can add significant value to a sellside M&A transaction. However, it’s important that the…

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Oct 12

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Focus

Utah’s continued momentum in residential and commercial real estate

By Kathryn J. Carlisle-Kesling When you consider the rapidly expanding residential and commercial real estate markets in Salt Lake City and its surrounding suburbs, it brings to mind the highly anticipated 26-minute commute from Cleveland to Chicago via the high-speed hyperloop…

Authority board begins 'intake process' for satellite port sites

By Brice Wallace The Utah Inland Port Authority continues to seek interest from Utah communities that might want a satellite port in their future. At the most recent Utah Inland Port Authority Board meeting, Ginger Chinn, the authority’s managing director of business…

COVID-19 Updates: Cancellations and postponements 10-5-20

The following are events that have been included in The Enterprise Calendar listings and subsequently have been postponed or canceled, or have been removed from the organizers’ website calendars. This is not a complete list of postponements or cancellations. Check with…

'Utah is still Utah,' and that will help with the pandemic recovery

By Brice Wallace Utah’s top tourism official is confident in an industry rebound because the same attributes that made Utah such a tourism destination success in the first place will remain after the COVID-19 pandemic. While Utah’s leisure and hospitality industry has been the…

Gardner Institute releases Census Bureau Household Pulse data tool

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah has released a data mining tool to provide Utahns easy access to the Household Pulse Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey provides a rolling view of COVID-19’s impact on households in Utah. While the…

SLC & county leaders urge Utahns to take advantage of available rent help

Utahns that have had trouble paying their rent have been offered help by local governments with funds from the federal CARES Act. But many have not taken advantage of the programs, according Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson and other city and county officials. The…

Community Foundation mobilizes $7 million to support nonprofit sector

As part of a nationwide effort by local chapters of the Community Foundation to mobilize funding in light of the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community Foundation of Utah (CFU) has mobilized $7.2 million this year in support of critical nonprofit…

Farmers Feeding Utah partners with UPA to help Uinta Basin families

The Utah Farm Bureau’s Farmers Feeding Utah campaign, in partnership with the Utah Petroleum Associations has conducted its latest project to assist farmers and families in rural Utah. The Uinta Basin Miracle Project took place recently in Vernal. In addition to the project’s…

Another big Utah deal: 1-800 Contacts sold to KKR & Co. for more than $3B

Orem-based 1-800 Contacts, the nation’s largest retailer of contact lenses, is being sold to global investment firm KKR & Co. Inc. of New York City. Bloomberg reported that KKR will pay current owner AEA Investors, also of New York City, in excess of $3 billion for the brand.…

Sorenson Impact Center receives $600,000 grant to support diversity in entrepreneurship

The Sorenson Impact Center, a think tank housed at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). Project DEEP (Developing Equitable Economies Program) is the first…

Chamber releases economic dashboard to track Utah’s recovery from COVID-19

The Salt Lake Chamber’s Roadmap to Recovery Coalition, in partnership with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, has released a new economic tool for the business community — the Road to Recovery Dashboard — to track the state’s path to an economic recovery from the COVID-19…

StoryBox buys Argentine co.

StoryBox Studios, an animation and film production studio in Ogden, has acquired post-production and animation studio MadrigueraPost located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Terms were not disclosed. “Our passion to create knows no bounds, and with this strategic acquisition, our…

Utah awarded $5M for the defense manufacturing support program

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) has announced that it was awarded a total of $5 million for the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program (DMCSP) to undertake an $11,005,000 project to enhance the capabilities of the regional defense industrial…

Succeeding in Your Business: Doing business in Europe? Do you really have to comply with GDPR?

By Cliff Ennico “My partners and I launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application earlier this year. “We’ve gotten a good response to our product. Virtually all of our customers so far are in the United States and Canada, but we’ve started getting inquiries from potential…

Clarus subsidiary to buy assets of Barnes Bullets

Sierra Bullets LLC, a subsidiary of Salt Lake City-based Clarus Corp., is acquiring the assets of Barnes Bullets of Mona. Barnes has been undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Sierra is expected to acquire Barnes for $30.5 million in cash. For the 12 months ended June…

Ivanti strengthens market position with acquisitions of two companies

South Jordan-based Ivanti, a provider of IT management and security software, has acquired two software companies, including mobile-centric security platform MobileIron of Mountain View, California, and Pulse Secure LLC, an Internet access security company in San Jose,…

Summit honorees named

The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) has announced the award recipients for the 2020 Utah Economic and Energy Summit that will be held Oct. 26 in Salt Lake City. At the summit, Gov. Gary R. Herbert will recognize individuals and companies that have made…

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