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Colorado Tech Weekly #262: Five Years Ago, This Week and #NewsMatters

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It’s been 5 years and 2 days since the very first Colorado Tech Weekly. When I started, I didn’t think it was possible for me to find 10 news stories about Colorado Tech so I only had 5 stories. One of those first stories was that Sprint could have been a Colorado company with a merger with Dish Networks that fell through. Now I sift through about 80 articles every week to come up with 10 stories.

Last week I was also surprised by the news that Tamara Chuang was leaving the Denver Post. I have not had the pleasure to meet Tamara yet but she has only been the 2nd Denver Post technology reporter since I started this blog series. It made me realize how important it was to me to have good local reporting of local tech stories. I decided that if Tamara stayed in Colorado, I would do what I can to support that news source. Yesterday, the Colorado Sun was announced as a new journalistic project and new news source created by exiled Denver Post employees.

I look forward to supporting the Colorado Sun as well as doing more to support all the other great local journalism covering our tech community. Any time someone mistakes this blog for journalism, I kindly remind them that I only aggregate news reported by real journalists.

Have a great week!

Top Colorado Technology News

  • San Francisco’s Splunk to acquire Boulder-based VictorOps in $120M deal [BizWest]
  • Fort Collins’ Madwire acquires Loveland-based payment company [BizWest]
  • Is Denver a new kind of tech town? Positively. [DigitalColorado]
  • Denver tech employees earn a lot more than other workers in the state [DBJ]
  • Regis University adds cybersecurity undergraduate degree [CSBJ]
  • Colorado awards first blockchain, cryptocurrency startup Radar Relay economic development grant [DBJ]
  • Boulder-based Sphero raises $12 million in capital [BizWest]
  • Spanish telecom startup, Teltoo, moves to Boulder, plans to hire in key positions [BizWest]
  • Boulder-based Bitsbox raises $3 million, plans to grow team [BizWest]
  • Shake it up: 5 executive leadership changes we saw in May [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

  1. 6/21 – Boulder/Denver BigData Meetup – The Amazon Infrastructure team: Big Data of Data Centers
  2. 6/21 – Denver Code Club – An Introduction to Modern Microservices
  3. 6/23 – GirlDevelopIt – 5 Year Anniversary Party
  4. 6/26 – Denver iOS Developer User Group – WWDC Recap

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If you know of any other good news stories or sources about tech in Colorado or if you have any news stories or opinions of your own about Colorado tech, email me at COTechWeekly@Gmail.com.

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