Mark is Co-founder/Editor of TechBuzz News. From Ogden, UT, Mark attended WSU, BYU, and Tufts. He has been involved in tech, media, publishing since the 80s.
StartFEST returns June 23–24 at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for two days of insights on AI, fundraising, go-to-market strategy, leadership, and growth.
Lunr Capital (Minneapolis, MN) replaced spreadsheet-based loan management with LoanPro’s API-first lending platform, enabling 9x portfolio growth, reducing manual servicing work by 20%, and delivering near-zero servicing errors at scale.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joined a Dorsey & Whitney roundtable in Salt Lake City to discuss regulatory reforms aimed at making IPOs more accessible, as Utah business and policy leaders examined how to grow the state's pipeline of public companies.
A 10-year, 200-mile fiber project finally connects Navajo Mountain High School — one of Utah's last unconnected public schools — to high-speed broadband, marking a milestone for the Navajo Nation.
TechBuzz profiles Alison Smart’s campaign to preserve Levemir, the discontinued insulin detemir that some patients uniquely need, through stories from Michela Belluta, Kirill Zenchenko, Jaime Losinski, and Dr. Maisa Feghali, who warn alternatives can be riskier.
Cy4Data Labs launches Cy4Signal, an additional encryption layer for Signal messenger that protects messages, voice, and video even after extraction from the platform, targeting government and enterprise users facing increasingly sophisticated AI-driven social engineering attacks.
LVT's 2026 Harris Poll survey of 2,089 Americans finds broad support for targeted AI surveillance with strict guardrails. It also documents a measurable safety-driven chilling effect on civic engagement ahead of midterms.
Nightingale Education Group, a Salt Lake City nursing education company, earns the No. 1 spot in Nurse.com's Top Workplaces for Nursing 2026, validated by confidential employee surveys highlighting culture, well-being, and mission-driven growth.
