Denver overtook Seattle as the top-ranked metro for small business employment growth in March, according to a new report
The latest Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch report, which focuses on national small-business wage and hiring trends, indicated that nationally, small-business employment growth declined slightly in March.
New grant to focus on college and career readiness programs aimed at addressing Colorado’s skills gap The Western Union Foundation has committed a grant of $250,000 to the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Foundation in support of innovative programs in DPS, with a strategic focus on narrowing Colorado’s skills gap. The grant is being made as The Western Union Company makes a significant and long-term commitment to Denver , as the location of its global headquarters.
Private equity giant KKR has bought out most of Insight Venture Partners' stake in Colorado Springs-based Cherwell Software LLC in a $172 million transaction, the biggest venture capital deal for a Colorado Springs company, giving KKR a majority interest in Cherwell.
A bill to accelerate construction of high-speed broadband internet service in rural Colorado is now law.
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the bill Monday. It is one of his top priorities for the 2018 legislative session.
The law is designed to bridge the economic divide between rural and urban parts of Colorado.
Described as a "frugal" company in a new Wall Street Journal report, Seattle-based Amazon has been scoping out sites on its HQ2 shortlist since January – taking a particular interest in education and the tech-to-talent pipeline in Denver and the other 19 cities still in contention for its second headquarters.
A marketing campaign launched Monday aims to build a pipeline as job growth eclipses local workforce.
Tech companies from the San Francisco Bay are increasingly choosing Denver over other U.S. tech hubs for new headquarters or major second offices. Here's what's attracting them.
DENVER — Employment in Colorado’s technology industry increased by an estimated 6,530 jobs in 2017 and the industry’s contribution to the state’s economy climbed to more than $43 billion, according to an industry advocacy association. The association, CompTIA, said in a report this week that 2017 tech employment in Colorado grew by 2.3 percent, the 10th highest rate in the country. With 285,300 workers, Colorado ranks 15th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in net tech employment.
BOULDER -- Electric vehicles may one day be able to recharge while driving down the highway, drawing wireless power directly from plates installed in the road that would make it possible to drive...
State Rep. Marc Catlin chalked up a legislative win March 23, one he said will benefit "the little guys" competing for broadband service contracts.
Denver's one of the top 10 cities in the country for entrepreneurs and startups, according to a new report. Business.org, a website that provides research, product reviews and recommendations to business owners, said it surveyed 300 U.S.cities and ranked the top 40, according to "their start-up friendliness, as well as financial environments and demographic cultures."
Colorado cybersecurity company Coalfire named a new CEO on Wednesday and announced the departure of the executive who led the company since 2015.
Tom McAndrew, a 12-year Coalfire employee and its current COO, will become CEO of Coalfire on April 1.
Xcel Energy is considering bids for hundreds of megawatts worth of new wind, solar and battery storage power plants.
DENVER -- Faction, the Multi-Cloud Platform as a Service company, today announced it closed an $18 million Series B financing to expand its multi-cloud products and services and accelerate growth via...
Facebook is hiring tech workers in Denver as it begins to build a presence in the city. The Menlo Park, California-based company has posted online notices for 10 types of positions it wants to fill in the city. Online publication BizDen reported Tuesday that Facebook is leasing the seventh floor of a building near Union Station, at 1900 16th St. The Facebook online careers page has recently added Denver as one of its locations.
A bill that passed the Senate Tuesday would clarify that people who get part-time jobs through online marketplaces are contractors, not employees of the sites.
The next generation of blazing-fast cellular data speeds hasn't arrived yet, but the major wireless carriers are hard at work in Denver laying the groundwork.
Facebook has tapped the “like” button on a downtown office.
The social network plans to move into the entire seventh floor of 1900 16th St., according to city permit records.
The space is 22,800 square feet, according to the records.
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment. CBRE broker Chris Phenicie, who represents the landlord, declined to comment.
Hackers and cyber criminals aren't so much trying to attack computer network security measures as they are looking for vulnerabilities in people who use and operate those networks as a gateway to access them.
That point was hammered home by the winning team of hackers during a cybersecurity "war game" hosted by information technology giant SAIC last week during the Rocky Mountain Cybersecurity Symposium at The Broadmoor hotel.
John Paasonen is forgoing the usual startup table tennis for a downtown office building with a bowling alley.
Paasonen, CEO of mortgage software startup Maxwell Financial Labs, said he and his employees moved into their new digs in the DC Building at 518 17th St. last week.
Littleton -- Students from Northern Colorado dominated this year's Colorado High School Science Bowl, with Fort Collins High School emerging victorious over second-place finisher Fairview High School...
The satellite TV company reveals what it plans to invest to meet a looming 2020 deadline from the FCC.
Denver-based SendGrid (NYSE: SEND) this week reported its first financial results since going public, saying it wasn’t profitable in 2017 but revenue is on the rise.
The company, publicly traded since November, reported a net loss in 2017 of $6.3 million. Total revenue was $111.9 million, up 40 percent year-over-year.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Driverless cars will be tested in California for the first time without a person behind a steering wheel under new rules approved Monday for the fast-developing technology.
The regulations are a major step toward getting autonomous vehicles to dealerships and onto the streets of California, where companies such as Tesla and Waymo are leading the way on the technology.