Austin Craig

Note: Early-bird registration for the annual MTA Conference ends today, February 15th, 2022. The conference will be held Sat, March 19, 2022, at the Provo City Library. The first 200 to register will receive Laura Shin’s new book “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First

Last Tuesday, February 1st, a Provo startup saw an overwhelming flood of attention from the industry it hopes to serve. But despite the saying, it may turn out that not all press is good press. In the case of NFT music startup Hitpiece, the attention may amount to a legal

In my career, I've been a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and unabashed technophile. I’ve also been a Provo resident for more than half my life, with Sundance just 25 minutes up the road. I’ve attended some portion of the Sundance Film Fest nearly every year since moving

Frauds On Tuesday, January 4th, Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former CEO of Theranos, was found guilty of fraud in a federal court in San Jose, California. In a trial that lasted four months, with a jury deliberating over 50 hours spanning seven days, Holmes was found guilty of four counts

Yesterday the Leonardo Museum in Salt Lake City played host to Cryptopia SLC, an event bringing together the cryptocurrency community in Utah and beyond. The crowd filled a 200 seat auditorium to standing room only, with panel discussions covering the basics of cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi), nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and

Giddy has announced $8 million seed funding led by Pelion Venture Partners. Joining the round is a who’s who of Utah startup investing and entrepreneurship, including Blake Murray of Divvy, Jeremy Andrus of Treager, Davis Bell of Canopy, “Brand Whisperer” Shaun Neff, serial angel investor Scott Paul, real estate

[Note: In all quoted social posts, any emphasis via italics was added by TechBuzz.] An Acute Problem Nobody in Utah’s tech or startup scene failed to notice what happened last week with the Dave Bateman email fiasco. If you need a recap, TechBuzz has it covered. This article isn’

By now, most of the Utah tech community (and many working in national media) have seen the comments made by Utah businessman and Republican political activist Dave Bateman, founder and former CEO of Entrata. On January 4th, Ben Winslow of Fox 13 broke the story of Bateman’s email to