For anyone who has read the new Steve Jobs biography and enjoyed the stories of how he bought and changed the direction of Pixar, this Friday's Digital Media Symposium, or DiMe, should be a real treat.

This year's keynoter is Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, a co-founder of Pixar Animation...

Sometimes all it takes to get people buzzing is a new catchy phrase.

That happened this week when Foundry Group venture capitalist Brad Feld told attendees of the Boulder Economic Summit that he thinks Boulder has a really great "entrepreneurial density."

Boulder, the city that whips itself into...

It's the story, stupid.

Forget for a moment, if you will, all of the latest 3D excitement and new media technologies. If there's one thing nearly every panelist could agree on at Boulder's 2nd annual Digital Media, or DiMe, Symposium, it's that those who can still tell the...

The Digital Media Symposium, or DiMe, returns for its second year in Boulder on Friday, February 18 with a great lineup of national and local panelists weighing in on new digital media. Tickets, at $50, are on sale at www.dimeboulder.com.

DiMe recently received a $25,000 grant...

It was economic forecast déjà-vu this week as the University of Colorado's top economist addressed Boulder business leaders.

I covered the same event - the Boulder & Beyond Economic Forecast organized by the Boulder Economic Council - a year ago and wrote about how Colorado's population continues to grow despite...

All of the fuss and Steve Jobs bashing about the iPhone 4's antenna problems haven't mattered much to me since I'm still having fun discovering new apps and learning how best to use my iPhone 3GS that I bought early this summer. Yes, I was a latecomer to the iPhone,...

For a city with 10 breweries -- all with tasting rooms, and arguably the birthplace of the the microbrew craft industry, Boulder is the perfect spot for a new conference Nov. 5-7, the world's first Beer Bloggers Conference.

Now here's a conference I think I can enjoy covering because not...

Boulder business, education and government leaders took a look into the future 25 years from now and saw everything from a much older population and a shrinking employment base to a digital media and outdoor recreation Mecca that continues to attract "multi-preneurs."

But as University of Colorado economist...

Mars Inc. is expanding its test market for its new goodnessKnows dark chocolate, fruit and nut snack beyond Boulder into the Denver area, with TV advertising beginning in May.

On a global front of buying cocoa for its popular chocolate products that include M&M's, Snickers, 3...

On-the-scene reports of earthquake relief efforts in Haiti are increasingly moving off the evening news, but a Boulder benefit this Friday night plans to raise money with all proceeds going to the Haiti Relief and Development Fund of the American Red Cross.

The fundraiser, organized by Boulder residents Mike...

Who's a creative? Just about everyone, a panel of exceptionally creative people agreed at Boulder's DiMe Digital Media Convergence Symposium -- the inaugural year for the event that helped kick off the Boulder International Film Festival weekend.

But the emergence of a plethora of easier-to-use and...

It's an interesting dilemma for Colorado.

Population growth, natural as well as an in-migration from other states, vs. continuing job losses and a state unemployment number that isn't improving much.

It happened in 2009, it's forecast for 2010. But is it a problem? I couldn't help but wonder...

A Hard Day's Night, the soundtrack to the 1964 British comedy film starring the Beatles, is playing on my turntable.

I bought the album today, as well as The Cry of Love by Jimi Hendrix, both in great condition, at the grand opening of Absolute Vinyl and Little Horse...

A funny thing happened on the way through the Boulder Economic Council's economic forecast Wednesday night.

Most of University of Colorado business economist Richard Wobbekind's charts and graphs suddenly started pointing up for 2010. Nearly all of them except, of course, the federal deficit chart, which showed...

The big-box Sam's Club in Louisville, Colo. told its employees on Sunday night that it had been losing money, and it would shut down in two weeks on Friday, Jan. 22.

Greeters at the front door of Sam's Club Monday were handing out a flyer announcing "This Sam's Club location...

Sometime back in Colorado's booming decade of the '90s, we did a readership study at the Boulder County Business Report that came back showing our business readers ate out a local restaurants about five times a week -- or at least once a day.

Now I'm sure...

I joined a crowd of bargain and holiday gift hunters at Bart's CD Cellar, which put up "store closing" signs this week after its out-of-town owners told staff it was shutting down the long-time Boulder business. The original owners sold the store in 2006 to Value Music Concepts,...

BOULDER - Several holiday-themed events and music, including Historic Boulder's "Home for the Holidays" house tour and the Boulder History Museum's Winter Fest Gingerbread Contest, will help celebrate the Dec. 5-6 closing of the city's 150th anniversary.

A year of special Sesquicentennial programs and events has commemorated Boulder's founding...

BOULDER -- Ted Turner's been called lots of things in his career - media mogul, entrepreneur, philanthropist, billionaire, rancher, environmentalist, peacenik and "Mouth of the South."

He brought a little of all of those to a packed room at the University of Colorado Friday as part of the Entrepreneurs Unplugged...

Nothing's wrong with good, simple marketing ideas in Twitter. In fact, isn't that what Twitter was supposed to be all about?

One of the easiest ideas to get your business message circulating is offering an incentive -- a simple contest for example -- asking your followers to retweet your tweet....