Here’s good news for all those fearing the coming robot apocalypse: SkyNet, the company behind the giant digital billboard at the Colorado Convention Center named for a fictional, computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots, seems to have been terminated…
Almost three months after CenturyTel announced a $22 billion deal to take over Qwest Communications, some of the most important questions about the historic merger remain unanswered — like what happens to all those old phone books, weird equipment, archival collections and other cool bits of telephonic history hidden on…
Occipital is a Boulder startup that just hit the big time. The company’s just been acquired by eBay on the strength of its RedLaser app for iPhones, which scans barcodes, allowing users to compare prices on the go. As part of its big push into mobile shopping, eBay has reduced…
As anyone who’s been in LoDo at closing time can attest, when 10,000 drunks pour into the street at the same time, it’s like the fan just waiting to get hit by the, well, you know what. So how do you stop shit from happening? With “nighttime economies” becoming major…
The rehabilitation of Denver’s historic Union Station into a modern transit hub is one of the most complicated and ambitious projects ever attempted around here: a convoluted labyrinth of rail lines, bus infrastructure, pedestrian walkways and private development crammed into a crowded, historic corner of LoDo plagued with underground utility…
At first glance, the logo seen here seems sinful, like some horrific gene-splicing experiment gone wrong. But since it involves Tim Tebow, how unholy can it be? Not unholy at all, argues Ed Marlowe, the Orlando resident behind BroncoGator.com…
On Wednesday, we previewed the Microsoft Store grand opening at Park Meadows — and judging by two video clips, yesterday’s festivities were both well-attended and mildly terrifying. Look below to check out the ribbon cutting, complete with employees in uni-colored T-shirts leaping up and down like Glee cast members on…
The wait is over, nerds. Microsoft has announced the location of its third-ever store: the Park Meadows shopping center in Lone Tree. Or, as the center’s promo folks like to call it, “the Park Meadows Retail Resort.” Back in April, we told you Microsoft was planning to open a store…
The announcements kept coming from the governor’s office yesterday: Bill Ritter would be signing this bill in front of this group, that bill in front of that group, with his eye on hitting constituencies across the state — and also hitting the June 11 deadline for action on all bills…
National Public Radio doesn’t do advertising — not unless you count all those support announcements, which pretty much add up to the same thing. But a piece heard this morning pretty much adds up to a commercial for Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. The package examines research that contrasts the amount of…
A few weeks back, Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that the city would sell Cableland, a swanky bachelor pad turned official mayoral residence, which had been donated to Denver by the late cable baron Bill Daniels. Proceeds would go to a scholarship foundation. But not so fast. Last night, the Denver…
Last month, Republic Airways Holdings decided to marry Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines under the Frontier name. Then, in a bid to placate potentially pissed-off Midwest fans, the company decided to honor the carrier’s Wisconsin roots by putting a badger on Frontier tails — and holding a contest to name…
DIA wasn’t the only place that experienced high winds and hail yesterday. Commerce City also got pounded, to the apparent delight of every roofer within a hundred miles. A resident of the Reunion neighborhood who shall remain nameless (because he doesn’t want to excite any more friggin’ roofers) says two…
Lindsay Lohan’s career trajectory has taken her from adorable scamp (in The Parent Trap) to a human train wreck who earlier this week was ordered to wear an alcohol-monitoring anklet to avoid going to jail. As such, she’ll be closely tracked by Littleton’s Alcohol Monitoring Systems — and she’s not…
Citing Boulder’s mishmash of granola-eating tree-huggers and a flourishing entrepreneurial landscape intersected by academe and technology, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has rated the city among the most promising for the next decade. Here’s how “Best Cities 2010” describes the community, which ranks in the fourth position, behind Austin, Seattle and Washington…
Lately, major businesses like Frontier Airlines and Qwest have made news for decreasing their presence in Denver, not expanding it. But Yahoo!’s acquisition of Associated Content last week brings more positive tidings. Associated Content founder (and newly minted Yahoo! vice president) Luke Beatty reveals that Yahoo! will be opening a…
Amid the white-hot debates raging over Arizona’s new immigration law, it’s harder than ever to separate the spluttering from the substance when it comes to immigration policy. Especially if you’re trying to make sense of the über-patriotic sentiments found online at Wehirealiens.com. A project of the Federal Immigration Reform and…
When most observers consider Denver’s most powerful websites, they frequently overlook Associated Content — and that’s a mistake. The project, which got its start in former Westword profile subject Luke Beatty’s basement circa 2004, has a simple concept: AC pays contributors fees for content based on how many people look…
A Brighton industrial cleaning company is suing the City and County of Denver and its Department of Aviation, which oversees operations at Denver International Airport, citing racial discrimination and soliciting of bribes for preferential treatments in contracted work by officials. Allstate Sweeping, which filed the federal civil suit earlier this…
Yesterday, we told you about the literal countdown to the IKEA groundbreaking ceremony, set for 11 a.m. today. Look below to see a graphic of the site and an IKEA release featuring more details. Unfortunately, the event isn’t open to the public. But according to Sherry Patten, community-affairs specialist for…
In March, IKEA formally announced that its first Colorado store would open in the fall of 2011. But another deadline is much closer, and IKEA fans are counting down the seconds — literally. A blogspot for Colorado IKEA fans has two separate countdown clocks. One ticks away the time before…
The merger of United and Continental is potentially blockbuster news, admits Ken Kyle, local counsel president for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA — but only potentially. Kyle points out that mergers of this size don’t happen overnight and don’t always hold together. Moreover, he stresses that today’s announcement “does not…
