Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!
Local company, Arrow Electronics, acquires a company. Local company, Alchemy API gets acquired by a company. DigitalGlobe to cut 150+ jobs. Innosphere helped create 150+ jobs. The sun rises. The sun sets. There’s a zen kind of feeling to this week’s headlines… unless you’re one of the 155 employees of DigitalGlobe. Then it’s more of a shaking-your-fist kind of headline. Time for me to get back to homework. Here’s your headlines…
Top Colorado Technology News
- New Tech group exploring format change, seeking new venue [BizWest]
- Longmont satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe cutting 155 jobs [DBJ]
- Denver-based Placeable hires digital industry veteran Jonathan Ewert as president [InnovatioNews]
- Colorado legislators back data center tax breaks — for now [DBJ]
- Centennial’s Arrow Electronics acquires distributor ImmixGroup [InnovatioNews]
- ‘Internet of Everything’ thought leader joins Denver-based BuildingDNA’s Board of Directors [BuiltinColorado]
- Denver’s AlchemyAPI acquired by IBM Watson Group [InnovatioNews]
- Centennial-based health-care technology group, Prime Health Collaborative, expanding into Colorado Springs [Colorado Springs Gazette]
- 2014 was a very successful year for the Fort Collins Innosphere incubator with 179 high-paying jobs created [InnovatioNews]
- Supreme Court clears the way for challenge to Colorado ‘Amazon tax’ [DBJ]
Upcoming Events
- 3/11 – CTA – Better Analytics With Big Data and Hadoop
- 3/11 – CTA – C-Level @ A Mile High Bidders Seminar
- 3/11 – Denver JUG – Steve Wall: Developing Java Apps in Cloud Foundry
- 3/11 – Refresh Denver – Aaron Gray, Instructor at gSchool Boulder
- 3/12 – Colorado IAMCP – March Meeting
- 3/12 – gSchool – Workshop: Intro to Lean UX
- 3/12 – WomenWhoCode – JavaScript Study Group
- 3/16 – Denver WordPress – Creating Child Themes & Custom Theme Development /w Rafi
- 3/16 – MoMoCo – Boulder: Mobile Payments and your Daily Life
- 3/17 – CTA – An Evening with Gus Hunt (Former CTO of the CIA)
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