The $5 million Comcast Media and Technology Center at the University of Colorado Denver opened March 2. The new center is offering a specialized curriculum aimed at students of engineering or arts and media to solve real-world problems and engage audiences in collaborative activities in media.
BOULDER -- The 13th Annual Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), set for March 3-4 and boasting a lineup of 58 films and 4 Oscar winners, announced the launch of the festival’s first-ever Virtual Reality Pavilion.
While big firms like BP and Arrow Electronics grab headlines when they relocate to Colorado, it’s new businesses like Jacob Zax’ app startup, Edify, driving much of the state’s job growth as it comes out of the recession. Colorado has the seventh highest concentration of new businesses: One in every three businesses here are no more than five years old, according to the CU Leeds School of Business.
The demand for traditional taxis at Denver International Airport has dropped over the years as more passengers use ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft to get from the airport, say airport officials.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first major congressional attempt to address the advent of self-driving cars, two senators said Monday they're launching a bipartisan effort to help to speed up the deployment of the vehicles on the nation's roads.
DENVER -- EY announced nominations are open for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, considered one of the most prestigious business award programs in the U.S.
The University of Colorado Boulder's aerospace department will be significantly bolstered with a $10 million gift from Vail socialite couple Ann Smead and Michael Byram.
DENVER -- AT&T is calling on innovative ed-tech ventures to apply for the 2017 AT&T Aspire Accelerator, with both for-profit and nonprofit organizations driving social impact encouraged to apply.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) launched the RoadX Bicycle and Pedestrian Challenge in 2016 to develop better systems to help those on foot and bicycles travel more safely. The RoadX challenge is open to proposals through Feb. 27. The challenge is made through a partnership with the Colorado Innovation Network's Imagine Colorado.
Denver Broncos offensive lineman Russell Okung wrote an op-ed for SportTechie advocating that fellow professional athletes invest in technology.
Hyperloop One is reinventing transportation by developing the world’s first Hyperloop, an integrated structure to move passengers and cargo between two points immediately, safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Our team has the world’s leading experts in engineering, technology and transport project delivery, working in tandem with global partners and investors to make Hyperloop a reality, now.
DENVER -- The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced it is accepting applications for the Advanced Industries (AI) Accelerator Grant program.
FORT COLLINS – Fort Collins-based Innosphere and Boulder-based Innovation Center of the Rockies plan to merge effective Jan. 1, combining a pair of nonprofit incubators that serve tech startups and university innovations along the Front Range.
DENVER -- ReadyTalk, a leading provider of cloud communication solutions, announced ReadyTalk Hosted Voice, a unified communications (UC) suite that enables IT and business managers to focus their attention on customers and core competencies rather than disparate technologies and vendors.
Denver's public campus and incubator aimed at working with entrepreneurs has landed a $400,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to help women and minority entrepreneurs. The Commons on Champa, a campus for entrepreneurs that opened in 2015 at 245 Champa St., was launched and is run by the Downtown Denver Partnership (DDP).
As the cool weather sets in, our wanderlust heads to the beach. And with the holidays coming up, travel is definitely on our minds. We’ve been busy dreaming of destinations like Paris and Cancun, so we were a little surprised when we noticed the number of travel startups in Colorado has grown considerably in the last few years.
DENVER -- DaVita Inc. (NYSE:DVA), a leading independent provider of integrated health and kidney care services in the U.S., today announced a partnership with San Francisco-based Rock Health, the first venture fund dedicated to digital health and a leader in fostering innovation in healthcare.
FORT COLLINS -- Colorado State University won a top national Innovation and Economic Prosperity University award for its impact on economic development.
DigitalGlobe, Inc. ( DGI ), the global leader in earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced the successful launch of WorldView-4, the company’s newest high-accuracy, high-resolution commercial imaging satellite. DigitalGlobe acquired signals from the satellite indicating its proper position and health 45 minutes after its launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
BOULDER – A group of former University of Colorado Boulder graduate students has created a fund in adjunct professor Jason Mendelson’s name that is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship on the CU campus.
The $50,000 Jason Mendelson Entrepreneurial Award Fund was formed with $50,000 by alumni of the CU law school’s Venture Capital and Private Equity course that is co-taught by Mendelson and law professor Brad Bernthal.
The Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) is announcing a new focus and direction to place Colorado at the forefront of the civic disruption conversation. The organization will concentrate on public sector innovation.COIN is a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade with the mission of advancing connections in the global innovation ecosystem to place Colorado as a leader in innovation...
DENVER -- Six top healthcare innovations will compete for $150,000 and the opportunity to test their products with 15 leading healthcare organizations during one of the largest pitch competitions of...
CENTENNIAL -- Innovation Pavilion's TechrIoT, Colorado's first Internet of Things (IoT) entrepreneurial collaborative, announced it hosted its inaugural IoT-focused Demo Day for eight graduating...
We’re getting a look, from a unique angle, at the destruction Hurricane Matthew did to parts of Haiti. DigitalGlobe Inc., a Colorado company that does earth imagery taken from satellites, took pictures of six Haitian towns, before and after Hurricane Matthew hit the area. The towns are along the western side of Haiti’s southern peninsula. The after pictures were taken on Oct. 9, a few days after the hurricane moved through the area. More than 500 people were killed when the hurricane pummeled…