Colorado satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe Inc. may soon be bought by Canada’s best-known space and satellite company, the Wall Street Journal is reporting today.
Layoffs are quickly following the purchase of Denver-based ReadyTalk by an Atlanta-based technology company. About 46 ReadyTalk employees have been notified their jobs are being eliminated, said new owner Premiere Global Services Inc. (PGi) late Wednesday, six days after it completed the purchase.
Level 3 Communications Inc.’s sales dropped and were down for the full year of 2016 driven by declines in international sales, but the company reported profits for the quarter and the full year.
Denver-based Granicus Inc. has a new leader after its private-equity-backed merger last fall with another maker of cloud software technologies for state and local governments.
Dish Network is acquiring set-top box development, Sling TV technology, software development employees and U.S. satellite TV ground infrastructure from its sister company, EchoStar Corp. in a transaction announced Wednesday.
TeamSnap Inc. said today it has raised another $25 million in venture capital and plans to expand the startup’s staff by about 50 percent as it tries to establish itself as the clear leader in amateur sports management technology. The Boulder-based company makes software and apps that manage sports team schedules, player communications and other logistics for more 1.3 million teams and leagues worldwide.
Verizon has reportedly approached Liberty Media's Greg Maffei about exploring a deal combining the telecom giant and cable company Charter Communications, potentially putting John Malone at the center of a deal reshaping the media and communications industries.
Denver cybersecurity startup ProtectWise Inc. has raised another $25 million in venture backing that will help the company add dozens of jobs, likely doubling in size for the second consecutive year. ProtectWise announced the investment this morning.
A Denver space startup won a military contract that will help it prove its small satellite capabilities and get its first spacecraft into orbit this year. York Space Systems, a year-old satellite manufacturing company, has entered a research and development partnership with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command to be prime contractor on a small satellite slated to launch as a secondary payload in late 2017.
A Denver tech company's workforce shrank by more than a third in recent months — including 15 people laid off Friday — but its leader says the business still plans significant growth and hiring this year.
Cloud Elements Inc. has raised another $13 million from venture capitalists and plans to increase its staff by a third to expand the market for the Denver-based startup's technology.
With the new funding, the 60-employee company plans to add about 20 positions this year with the aim of getting its products used by more companies, said Mark Geene, CEO and co-founder of Cloud Elements.
NASA has tripled the number of flights awarded to SpaceX and Boeing Co. to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, giving Centennial-based United Launch Alliance four more manned missions to launch.
United Launch Alliance successfully launched a large communications satellite into orbit Sunday that will enable a big jump in high-speed internet capacity for a unit of Charlie Ergen's EchoStar Corp.
Centennial-based IQNavigator, maker of non-employee worker tracking and management software, is merging with a larger competitor and getting a new CEO in the deal.
A federal court has ruled Level 3 Communications was wrongly excluded from a contract for U.S. military telecommunications between Germany and Kuwait, and the judge ordered a military investigation into how it happened. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims revoked an award granted to Verizon Deutschland GmbH even though its price tag was $38.6 million higher than Level 3’s bid.
Denver-based cybersecurity company Optiv Inc. has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to become a publicly traded company. The filing on Friday puts Optiv in line to be the first major IPO in Denver tech circles since Zayo Group, a Boulder-based business telecom, went public in the fall of 2014. Optiv plans to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol “OPTV.”
A rocket launched the most advanced U.S. civilian weather satellite ever made into orbit Saturday, a successful mission of two of Colorado's largest aerospace companies. An Atlas V rocket built by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance blasted off into darkened evening skies above Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GOES-R satellite, built in Jefferson County by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.
A Colorado startup working to build the first supersonic passenger airliner for business travelers is showing off a test plane that’s meant to fly next year. Boom Technology Inc., based at Centennial Airport in Arapahoe County, is building its XB-1 test plane to demonstrate its technology and designs for a 45-passenger airline capable of flying 1,450 mph -- 2.2 times the speed of sound.
A downtown Denver tech startup is offering free parking rewards to people who refer others to try out its app. ParkiFi, a 35-employee company that makes a system to help people find available parking in real time, plans to debut its service in downtown Denver in mid-November.
One man is going to prison and a second is working for Denver-based Photobucket Inc. for free as punishment for creating software that extortionists used to steal people’s intimate images from the photo service. U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel sentenced Brandon Bourret, 41, of Colorado Springs, to 29 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, and to forfeit $49,153 cash plus computer equipment...
Raising money isn’t the only way to speed up the growth of a business. Merging with a bigger company can accomplish the same thing...
Colorado ranks second among U.S. states in turning technology and science capabilities into high-paying jobs, according to a new ranking by the Milken Institute.
That’s two places better in the rankings than the fourth-place Colorado area achieved the last time the report was compiled two years ago...
Tecomet Inc., a global contract manufacturer, on Monday purchased Mountainside Medical, a Boulder maker of medical device components and surgical devices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mountainside Medical employs 107 people. The company was formed in 2006. No job cuts are planned at Mountainside Medical, and the Tecomet aims to invest to expand the business in Boulder, a spokesman for Tecomet said. Mountainside Medical has grown to make instruments for minimally invasive surgeries as…
Eight Denver-area startups pitched AOL co-founder Steve Case for a $100,000 investment Tuesday, and the company that won is finding growth serving a wealthy niche in a struggling industry.
Case, today a billionaire tech startup evangelist, passed through Denver on his five-day, five city "Rise of the Rest" tour visiting companies, meeting local bigwigs and spreading word that Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston aren't where all action is despite those places soaking up 75 percent of U.S. venture…
