Huntsman Corp. agreed to be acquired by Hexion Corp. for $10.6 billion cash. John Huntsman, Sr. is donating the majority of his share, $1.6B, to various charities, including the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. Forbes Magazine named Utah the 2nd best [See the full post…]

Kimberly D.C. Trapp is Industry Liaison Officer of Lehigh University’s Center of Optical Technologies with a charter to advance research and applications of optical and optoelectronic technologies. With close to 25 years of experience with Agere Systems, AT&T Bell [See the full post…]

David Doane, president and CEO of PresenceID, talks with Brad Baldwin about identity transparency and growing trend towards the virtual workplace. Doane proposes the possibility of ultimately decoupling not only users from the physical network environment, but also [See the full post…]

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, is a professor of radiology and bioengineering, director of the Molecular Imaging Program and head of the nuclear medicine division at Stanford University. He shares his vision of the future based on molecular imaging.

This podcast [See the full post…]

Net Nanny provides parents with a way to manage how, what and when the Internet can be used in a home. Ken Knapton, ContentWatch‘s chief technology officer, gives us a demo of the latest version of Net Nanny, [See the full post…]

June is National Internet Safety Month. We caught up to Jack Sunderlage, the president and CEO of ContentWatch and maker of the Net Nanny software. As part of their efforts, ContentWatch released their top ten safety tips [See the full post…]

Footnote.com has the largest collection of digital images from original source documents on the Web. Through a partnership with the U.S. Government’s National Archives and Records Administration, Footnote is digitizing a vast collection of original documents that have been [See the full post…]

Regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners were announced for this year, including our friend Thomas D. Dickson for K-TEC/Blendtec, you might remember him from the www.willitblend.com campaign, Amy Rees Lewis for her work with MediConnect [See the full post…]

Phil Myers is the President of Pragmatic Marketing, the industry standard for technology product management and marketing. Pragmatic Marketing teaches a practical, market-driven approach to creating and delivering technology products. 90 percent of 40,000+ alumni indicate the training essential [See the full post…]

Several stories this week caught our attention: Footnote.com added three million Revolutionary War pension files, thanks to a deal with FamilySearch (Footnote.com currently adds about 2 million documents each month from the National Archives.); Overstock.com, this week, had [See the full post…]

Darren Lee, CEO of NextPage, talks about the challenge for compliance and records managers who must minimize the liability and risk of “smoking gun” documents that live on individual users’ desktop computers. With the latest regulations of Sarbanes-Oxley [See the full post…]

Printing has moved from mass production into low-cost, individual customization. Now, print automation technology like that developed by Alexander’s Print Advantage, a single, personalized book is created for an individual buyer.

Examples of this technology include a national home [See the full post…]

California’s Title 24 presents implications for those engaged in new and retrofit home construction. While there are many different ways to look at power conservation and consumption, Paul Nagel, Control4‘s VP of engineering, talks about how home automation [See the full post…]

Brad Hintze, product marketing manager at Bungee Labs, shows Brad Baldwin the benefits of Bungee Connect, a rich Ajax and browser-based development environment. Hintze quickly mashes up the Rhapsody service showing how easy it is to create and deploy [See the full post…]

After years of working with developers at Microsoft, Alex Barnett thought the pitch from Bungee Labs was too good to be true. A Web-based development environment with the richness and power of a fat, local IDE but with a easier [See the full post…]

Dr. Larry Dalton, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the George B. Kauffman Professor of Chemistry & Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and Nobel Prize nominee, talks about his work with polymers, photonics and electro-optics.

Electro-optics and photonics [See the full post…]

Where do you look if you want to rent a vacation home on a beach in South America? That was the question that led serial entrepreneur and vSpring v100 recipient Bob Barnes to start Zonder, a new Web and [See the full post…]

Backcountry.com was acquired by Liberty Media Corp. The deal will be finalized this quarter. Backcountry.com will continue to expand and add 1250 employees this year. Utah gets $5 million from the WIRED program to train future workforce in biotech and [See the full post…]

Since it’s introduction in 1979, TaylorMade‘s metal driver has been at the heart of golf’s revolution. Today, technology and science are pushing distance and performance for both tour players and weekend warriors.

Benoit Vincent, TaylorMade Golf’s chief technology officer, [See the full post…]

In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices’ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss the top stories of the week. This week’s highlights include: [See the full post…]

Sean Toulon, TaylorMade Golf‘s executive vice president of product and brand creation, is passionate about delivering the best performance golf equipment in the world. When Toulon wrote the plan for what would become the number one metal wood on [See the full post…]

Brad Feld and David Cohen go into detail about their summer project, TechStars, which is bringing 10 startup companies to Boulder, Colo., for an intensive 3-month period of education and mentorship from over 30 of the best entrepreneurial minds [See the full post…]

Benoy Tamang, CMO of HookSell, talks about turning Website visitors into leads and leads into sales using unique online direct sales tools.

Benoy Tamang is the founder of Salt Lake City-based HookSell, a direct response business that focuses on [See the full post…]

In this week’s ConnectCast, Rocky Mountain Voices’ Cydni Tetro and Connect Magazine Executive Editor Colin Kelly discuss this week’s highlights, including:

– Allegiance closes on a $5.7M round of funding

– Logoworks to be acquired by HP

– Arkona to [See the full post…]

The college admissions process was such a pain that it inspired Mick Hagen with the idea for a company. Zinch.com is all about helping students showcase themselves for college admissions officers. As Hagen says, there’s a lot more to students [See the full post…]