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Providing our readers with perspective, analysis, and deep-dive contextual insights on Utah-based monetary news, data, and information, as well as editorial commentary and opinion pieces.

Bridging the AI Chasm Between Hype and Promise

Bridging the AI Chasm Between Hype and Promise

It seems that each day media and social media headlines are trumpeting the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI). And clearly for good reason as generative AI models are crafting content on a daily basis and more and more agentic systems are automating complex workflows on a daily basis. In

$600 Million Notwithstanding, Buying Control of RSL is Actually Just Another Step in a Multibillion-Dollar Real Estate Play Designed to Land Major League Baseball in Utah

All other industries notwithstanding, it's critical to realize that virtually everything that The Larry H. Miller Company has done since Larry & Gail Miller bought that first Toyota dealership 45+ years ago has been anchored by real estate. That legacy continues today with the recent acquisition of controlling

The Top 13 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business "News Nuggets" for March 2025 that You Might have Missed

The Top 13 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business "News Nuggets" for March 2025 that You Might have Missed

In this report you'll find info about 11 Utah-based firms and nine separate executives that we feel made the cut as being among the most "newsworthy" last month, which (when combined together) form our writeup about Utah's Top 13 Monetary, Financial and/or Business

NEWS & ANALYSIS — What a Tangled Web is Woven: Beyond Announces its Plan to Purchase Back the Digital Assets of "Buy Buy BABY" for $5 Million

NEWS & ANALYSIS — What a Tangled Web is Woven: Beyond Announces its Plan to Purchase Back the Digital Assets of "Buy Buy BABY" for $5 Million

Without a scorecard, keeping track of the nuances of baseball can be difficult at best. Now, some can argue, a similar claim can be made about Salt Lake City, Utah-based Beyond (NYSE:BYON), formerly Overstock.com. Here's an attempt to untangle the newest "twist" that'

Image downloaded from the Events page of the RevRoad website on the morning of Tuesday, 28 January 2025.

RevRoad Closes its Doors. Kind Of.

In a turn of events both shocking and yet not totally surprising, the RevRoad experiment has come to an end. Sometime in the last week, the RevRoad website shifted from this — to this (on Sunday, 26 January 2025) — Additionally, based upon my review of dozens of LinkedIn profiles this morning,

CATCHING-UP: The Top 49 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business News Nuggets for the Last Quarter of 2024 that You Might have Missed

CATCHING-UP: The Top 49 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business News Nuggets for the Last Quarter of 2024 that You Might have Missed

{AUTHOR'S NOTE: With apologies in advance, it's clear that things got a bit hectic for "Yours Truly" in the latter part of the year, especially with the births of a grandson in October and a granddaughter in November, as well as landing two new

Roughly Nine Months after Being Named Executive Chairman of Beyond, it's Clear that Marcus Lemonis is the "Man in Charge" as Beyond Unveils Five Major Announcements / Initiatives in the Past Six Weeks

Roughly Nine Months after Being Named Executive Chairman of Beyond, it's Clear that Marcus Lemonis is the "Man in Charge" as Beyond Unveils Five Major Announcements / Initiatives in the Past Six Weeks

What are these five major announcements / initiatives? ONE: A global licensing program; TWO: A Strategic Partnership with, and a $40 million investment in, The Container Store; THREE: A Strategic Partnership with, and up to $25 million in investments into, Kirkland's, including with four separate financial agreements with the