Good News and Bad News for Northern Rockies High-Tech – Montana Needs Help

The improving fortunes of Micron and HP are good news for Boise. But Montana’s small tech sector needs an energy boost.

The technology business in the Northern Rockies has always been a bit of a hodge-podge: a big company here, a big subsidiary of a big company there, and a few small hives of entrepreneurship that have a lot of potential, but with the possible exception of Idaho’s Treasure Valley don’t yet have a major impact on the regional economy.

By Jonathan Weber

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