Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!
It is impossible to pay attention to technology news in Colorado without hearing about all the different, interesting and exciting startup companies here. So much so that I have been invited to contribute a weekly technology post to the StartupDenver website! I’m pretty excited. This opportunity made me question whether I really knew what a startup company is, so I did what any blogger with a thirst for knowledge would do, I asked myself “What is a Startup?“. In the post, I reference an essay by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham (“Startup = Growth”, 2012) . It is a great read for anyone who wants to understand startups.
Local News
- Boulder cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider, Ajubeo secures new investment to support their growth [InnovatioNews]
- 17 Colorado software companies made the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing list [Inc]
- City of Aurora gets its own app [9news]
- New Tech August Recap – Denver Startup Week Party and FitTrip [BDNT]
- Kaiser Permanente opens a new IT center in Greenwood Village [DBJ]
National News
- A technical glitch shut down the Nasdaq Stock Exchange for over 3 hours on Thursday [DBJ]
- Who wants to be a CEO? Microsoft announced that CEO Steve Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months [DBJ]
- A list of programming languages by average salary makes me want to learn ActionScript [bpodgursky.wordpress.com]
- I wish I could ONLY raise $12.8 M. Ubuntu Edge misses their $32M Indiegogo goal [CNet]
- Graphene research takes one step closer to insanely fast computers [BusinessWeek]
Upcoming Events
- 8/27 – Galvanize – Google for Entrepreneurs
- 8/28 – Application Developers Alliance – Developer Patent Summit
- 8/28 – jQuery Denver – Happy Hour
- 8/28 – Galvanize – 1Million Cups
- 8/28 – CTA – Information Assets Your Corporate Crown Jewels
- 8/29 – CTA – CIO Forum with Bill Weeks, CIO of the Year
Thank you for reading!
I will be at the CTA Member Meetup tomorrow night at Swiftpage. It would be pretty cool to see you there. If you know of any other good news stories or sources about tech in Colorado, please let me know! Also if you attend any of the events listed, I would love to hear from you!