KX News: InfoTech

Info Tech Gets Federal Money

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:54:00 GMT

A Minot company is benefiting from a multi-million dollar funding project for high-tech military initiatives in North Dakota. InfoTech will receive $5 million in federal funding for a project involving information transfer technologies for military units

Defense Job Opportunities

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:43:00 GMT

Retaining young workers in North Dakota has become a growing challenge for many businesses around the state. One relatively new alliance has recognized this trend, and as Dan Erdmann reports, thew group is trying to reverse those numbers. (Dan Erdmann,

Dakota Defense Alliance

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:38:00 GMT

Businesses in the Dakotas can work together to find ways to win defense contracts and expand their businesses. That's the idea behind a new group called the Dakota Defense Alliance. Kristin Hedger is executive director of the D-D-A and says the people o

MADC Likes Job Outlook

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:38:00 GMT

What can western North Dakota expect from the oil industry in the coming months and years? That was a topic covered by the senior vice president of Whiting Petroleum today. Jim Brown was the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the Minot Area Devel

InfoTech Signs New Contract

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:29:00 GMT

Just two years ago, they employed only 8 people. Now, that number has grown to 22 employees and a new partnership should keep that total on the rise. InfoTech is a business that provides custom software applications for a company's specific needs. Rec

InfoTech Gets Federal Funds

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:08:00 GMT

A hi-tech company in Minot has won another batch of federal funds to serve the military. North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan says InfoTech will be getting 4-point-3 million dollars to help create a new system to allow Department of Defense workers secure a

InfoTech

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:37:00 GMT

InfoTech may have its roots in New York City, but its backbone is here in Minot. That's what company officials are saying following the the signing of a contract with eMergent Health Solutions to develop specialized software to track employee benefits.

InfoTech

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:29:00 GMT

University data storage project scrapped

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:49:00 GMT

Minot State University is giving up a $2.1 million state "centers of excellence" grant for a data and research center that companies could use for remote storage of their information. University President David Fuller says the Great Plains Know

MSU Withdraws Center of Excellence Proposal

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:46:00 GMT

A plan for Minot State University to collaborate with private business to create a data center has been dropped. MSU announced today it was withdrawing its Centers of Excellence application for what was called the Great Plains Knowledge and Data Center.

MAGIC Fund OKs Land Purchases

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:34:00 GMT

The committee that recommends spending economic development money raised in Minot wants to buy more than a million dollars worth of land. The MAGIC Fund Committee met today and voted in favor of two separate proposals for land purchases. One is $410,000

MAGIC Fund OKs Land Purchases

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:24:00 GMT

MAGIC Fund Committee Grants Money

Fri, 23 May 2008 13:24:00 GMT

The MAGIC Fund steering committee approved two requests today that will now move onto the full city council for votes. First, a 50-thousand dollar grant for The Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture at MSU - Bottineau was unanimously approved. The Cen

InfoTech Gets Money

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:27:00 GMT

A high-tech company that was established in Minot about a year ago has received another multi-million dollar appropriation from congress. The senate passed a measure last week, granting Info Tech two-point-eight million dollars to continue development of

Centers of Excellence Approval for Minot State

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:36:00 GMT

Minot State University and its partners SRT, InfoTech, and Minot Area Development Corporation were approved for 2.1-million dollars in state funding today for their Centers of Excellence Project. The project will support two key facilities, a production

Hoeven Announces Fourth Round Of Centers Of Excellence Awards

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:00:00 GMT

BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. John Hoeven today announced that the Centers of Excellence Commission has approved six new jobs creation and economic development projects in the fourth round of awards. If the projects agreed to by the Commission today a

InfoTech Working with Minot State

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:33:00 GMT

A new, high tech company that opened this year in Minot is trying to land local graduates to fill new positions. And Info Tech is working with Minot State University on an internship program to make that happen. Jim Olson reports that the program could

Snow: just the beginning in Iraq...Terror suspect's ties...Hot and sticky...

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:03:00 GMT

White House spokesman Tony Snow says a new report on progress in Iraq is just "a look at the starting line." Snow confirms some benchmarks have been met, while others haven't. On one morning show appearance, he called it "the beginning of the retoo

UK bombing suspect worked in aviation

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:33:00 GMT

One of the suspects in last month's failed British car bombings had worked as an aeronautical engineer in India. A spokesman for Infotech Enterprises says Kafeel Ahmed worked for the company from December 2005 to August 2006. Ahmed is now in a

InfoTech Gets Business for Minot Location

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:15:00 GMT

A company based in New York City will soon rely more heavily on Minot. Neville, Rodie, and Shaw, Inc., also known as N-R-S, has announced a plan locate a disaster recovery center at InfoTech's Minot Technology Center which means the Magic City will ho

Dorgan on Conrad Budget and Iraq Withrdawl

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:51:00 GMT

North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan paid a visit to his home state this weekend. He traveled to Minot to greet the troops of the National Guard 164th at their Freedom Salute Ceremony yesterday, and to help open InfoTecha new business in the Magic City.

InfoTech Ready for Business

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:45:00 GMT

An event more than a year in the making took place in Minot today. This morning, members of the community gathered on the third floor of the Wells Fargo building to officially open InfoTech. The New York based technology company has been working with

Company Provides Jobs For MSU Grads

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:31:00 GMT

Minot State University graduates have an "in" with a new technical business in Minot. A company called InfoTech will begin operations Monday. The New York-based company has been working with the Minot Area Development Corporation and Minot State Univers

MAGIC Fund Supports New Business

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:27:00 GMT

The MAGIC Fund Screening Committee agreed to give a New York company up to four-hundred thousand dollars to get off the ground this morning now it is up to the full city council to give final approval. InfoTech is a company that has secured a contract

New York company plans to bring technology jobs to Minot...

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:09:00 GMT

Officials of a New York-based technology company say they hope to eventually have hundreds of people working in Minot. The company called InfoTech is starting a project to create a global information network for the military. Senator Byron Dorga

New Business Closer to Reality

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:12:00 GMT

We may be as far from an ocean as you can get, but Minot will soon be home to a business supporting the US Navy. Senator Byron Dorgan joined city leaders and the president of the company called InfoTech to announce federal funding of almost two million d

Defense Spending Bill Passes

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:01:00 GMT

A defense spending bill that could ultimately cut in half the number of B-52 bombers stationed at Minot Air Force Base gives funding for another B-52 program that should solidify the bombers' future at the base. The 448-billion dollar bill passed the US

Minot officials hope to land information tech company...

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:21:00 GMT

Minot could be in line for an information technology company doing military work. Senator Byron Dorgan says one-point-eight (m) million-dollars for the project is included in a defense appropriations bill awaiting final congressional action.