Utah Valley.

• Position: Around Utah

Springville - LITTLE GIANT LADDER SYSTEMS and TOOLBANK USA announced that Little Giant Ladders is helping nonprofit organizations with community improvement projects. A full line of Little Giant Ladder Systems products has been donated to community citizens.

American Fork - DIGIS NETWORKS performed a major overhaul of its high-speed internet network in Utah County, becoming the only internet service provider capable of delivering speeds in excess of 10 Mbps across most of the county. The upgrade, which employs new technology to extend the power and reach of the company's unique fixed wireless network, more than triples the download speed available to customers and introduces new speed packages.

American Fork - ORANGESODA released its new CitrusBlast product, an online advertising solution that combines the power of search engines, social media and mobile search to increase exposure within Google Maps. CitrusBlast is utilized within hyperlocal markets to push more leads back to small businesses.

Provo - PENGUIN COMPUTING chose ADAPTIVE COMPUTING'S Moab ClusterSuite to manage the workload on its HPC Cloud offering, Penguin on Demand (POD). POD is currently the only on-demand HPC offering that supports "bare metal" execution of compute jobs, effectively providing public access to a supercomputer to users that require compute capacity that is unavailable in-house.

Lehi - IM FLASH TECHNOLOGIES plans to add 200 new employee positions starting in 2012, while maintaining its current staff levels of more than 1,400 employees. During the last five years, the company has paid out more than $532 million in wages and expects to pay an additional $1.4 billion in new state wages over the next 10 years.

Orem - LANSCHOOL TECHNOLOGIES was acquired by STONEWARE, INC. Stoneware allows organizations to create their own private cloud and virtual web desktop to access it. Through joining forces, LanSchool and Stoneware will be able to bring the power of cloud computing directly into the classroom.

Orem - FiSHBOWL has achieved full buyback of all stock from the former majority shareholder. The deal makes Fishbowl's current management team and employees 100 percent owners of the company, which produces the top-requested inventory management software for use with QuickBooks.

Eagle Mountain - EAGLE MOUNTAIN CITY held a grand opening for its Business Incubator Development Program (BIDP), a city-sponsored business incubator that uses no taxpayer dollars. The program...