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Start-Up Domo Goes 100 Percent More Social Starting Today

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 8 at 1:22 pm PT

Business intelligence start-up Domo Technologies is today requiring all of its employees to boost their involvement on social media platforms as part of a huge eight-week case study.

Josh James Start-Up Domo Says Arigato to IVP in $20 Million Funding Round

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 31 at 8:59 pm PT

Utah-based Domo Technologies has now raised $63 million. So what’s it going to use all that money for? Maybe, just maybe, an acquisition or two?

Meet Domo, the Latest Chapter in the Josh James Saga

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 13, 2011 at 5:59 pm PT

The former CEO of Omniture bought a company in his home state of Utah, and then renamed it, but not before having a lot of fun along the way. And? He just raised $33 million.

Omniture’s Former CEO: $10,000 Says You Can’t Guess My New Company’s Name

Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 13, 2011 at 5:03 pm PT

After raising lots of money, former Omniture CEO and Adobe VP Josh James has a new company to talk about. He’s just not ready to announce its name. He wants you to guess.

Techies Pause Long Hours for Long Weekend of Snow Kiting in Utah

Liz Gannes in Social on January 24, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT

It’s a good time to be an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and not just because the parties are getting swankier. More than 30 techies went snow kiting in Park City, Utah, over MLK weekend on a trip organized and funded by the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures.

Viral Video: "Page One" at Sundance

Kara Swisher in News on January 20, 2011 at 12:39 am PT

One of the more interesting movies at the 11th Sundance Film Festival, which opens today in Park City, Utah, will be “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times.” The documentary is by Andrew Rossi, who spent a year following reporters and editors at the newspaper, even as the media landscape shifted dramatically due to the impact of digital technologies.

Exclusive: SnagFilms Snags $10 Million in Funding at $50 Million Valuation

Kara Swisher in News on January 16, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT

SnagFilms, the online video distribution site for professional documentaries, has nabbed $10 million in funding from Comcast’s investment arm and New Enterprise Associates, and will also now be distributing fictional independent releases. That and the new investment giving SnagFilms a valuation of $50 million should be big news at the 11th Sundance Film Festival, the famous independent film gathering opening in Park City, Utah, on Thursday.

The One-Year Report Card of Yahoo's Carol Bartz–Deal-Making: Incomplete

Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2010 at 9:24 am PT

Sorry for the break in grading Yahoo’s Carol Bartz on her one-year anniversary as CEO. But BoomTown was swanning around the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this weekend, went partying with those boozy Hollywood types and ended up in Provo with the crazy gals from “The Runaways”! I wish! Actually, running away from issuing any grade for deal-making for Bartz is a pretty good way to put it. Because today, after much thought, I have to give the Yahoo leader an incomplete for deal-making.

Education Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Gets First Distribution Deal at Sundance

Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2010 at 1:03 am PT

Bill Gates was at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend–not just to sample some of the fare at the well-known independent film festival, held annually in Park City, Utah, but also to appear at the screening of a documentary about the crisis in public education in which he appears and that scored the first distribution deal at the event. The worldwide rights for “Waiting for Superman,” directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Participant Media, were sold to Paramount Vantage, a unit of the Viacom movie studio.

BoomTown Heads to Sundance Film Festival in the Fifth Annual Meet-the-Geeks Pilgrimage

Kara Swisher in News on January 21, 2010 at 5:19 am PT

Today, BoomTown is loading the wife and kids, along with mom, into our tricked-out All Things Digital Winnebago and heading to Park City, Utah, for the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Now, what I know about independent filmmaking could fit neatly into a thimble, with room to spare. But what has brought me back there for five years running is the chance to introduce those auteurs gathered on the frozen tundra to a slice of what’s to come from the digital world.