Radar – You’ve come a long way baby!
Popular Science calls it a “revolutionary product” for protecting soldiers and the public. Popular Science Magazine’s Best of What’s New 2012 Award goes to PilmerPR public relations client SpotterRF for their compact ground surveillance radar. This new product is a peek behind the advanced tech curtain where tremendous public risk exists.
The prestigious award from ...
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In my public relations and Utah marketing work with PilmerPR, I’ve passed a hundred times by the business park area where Ancestry.com, Vivint, TNI, and a hundred other emerging entrepreneurial companies started. I’ve done PR consulting and media relations for many of them. This week Forbes, among many others, reported that Utah-headquartered genealogy software firm Ancestry.com entered an agreement to be acquired by an investment group ...
UPDATE: Since writing the article below I asked Todd Pedersen the following:
What’s the likelihood of Blackstone growing the Vivint HQ outside of Utah?
From my home office I can almost see the Vivint headquarters in Utah Valley’s River Bottoms. I’ve watched with some amazement as this small entrepreneurial start-up has grown into a industry ...
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Our Public Relations client SpotterRF is in the news again – 24/7 All-Weather 20 Acre Wide Area Coverage for Critical Infrastructure & Public Protection
OREM, Utah—September 5, 2012— On the heels of receiving the prestigious ASIS Accolades 2012 award, SpotterRF today announced Q4 availability of the Spotter C40, the ...
My time was well spent attending the MultiLing Multicultural Celebration. Our recent international PR work on cleantech issues for Ukraine and Singapore makes this topic timely for PilmerPR . A distinguished panel of experts offered many valuable insights on doing business internationally. Here are some of their comments “in the raw.”
Panelists:
Brian Chandler: MultiLing
Localization and translation is key to international success. Think global right ...
Continue Reading → Share87% of U.S. Airports have NO Perimeter Security Assessment. TSA pushes the problem to local law enforcement. Law enforcement points back at the TSA. So, while airports frisk grandma and spend half a billion dollars on full body scanners at the front door, who’s watching the back door for threats?
Congressman Jason Chaffetz addresses this threat head on: video
St. George airport almost lost a $20 million airplane when they could have spent less than $150k and prevented the perimeter ...
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The mega lottery media tsunami is back and bigger than ever with more than half a billion $dollars$ riding on the Mega Millions wave. Proponents of the lottery system might say this is a perfect way to raise state revenue. It’s voluntary unlike other forms of tax. Opponents might say the lottery is a fool’s game, preying on those least likely to have money to ...
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) today announced winners for its 2011 Annual UVEF Awards. The annual event recognizes Utah companies and leaders for innovation, business growth and contributions to the entrepreneurial community. Award recipients were honored today at ceremonies held at the Provo Novell Campus.
“Utah continues to chart the nation’s course to better times through its entrepreneurs,” said UVEF chairman Cary Snowden. “UVEF Award winners are on the leading edge of this prolific success .”
Award recipients were named ...
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For all of the Obama fallout over the recent Solyndra solar debacle, renewable energy continues to “heat up” shall we say. Despite the bad PR, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported another milestone. During the first half of 2011, renewable energy sources (biomass/biofuels, geothermal, solar, water, and wind) produced 4.687 quadrillion Btus of energy or 12.25% of US energy production. That’s up ...
