Technology

Provo language translation software developer gets $1.6M in funding -- Lingotek, a Provo-based developer of language translation software, secured $1.6 million in capital financing to grow its sales and marketing efforts.

This second round of financing, which follows a $1 million round of funding in 2006, was led by Canopy Ventures. The Lindon-based early venture capital firm contributed $1 million in the second round. Flywheel Ventures, a Santa Fe-based venture capital company, contributed the remaining $600,000.

"The world is becoming a smaller place where businesses and governments have a stronger need to achieve pin-point accuracy of language translation," said Brandon Tidwell, Canopy's managing director. Lingotek developed a Web 2.0 service called the Language Search Engine, which searches translated content for human translators. The software helps translators find the same words with the same meaning in the same context in any language.

People on the Move

XanGo promotes two executives -- XanGo, a Lehi-based nutritional supplements maker, named Justin Banner its vice president of strategy. Banner will oversee market research, competitive intelligence, market trend analysis, demographic and economic analysis and secondary consumer research. Jeff Sebok was named the company's director of IT solutions development. He will oversee the technical design and development of XanGo's software applications.

Orem Coldwell Banker broker honored -- Kelly Ercanbrack, managing broker of the Orem branch office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, was named one of the top office managers of its parent company NRT Inc. She was one of 211 top office managers to make NRT's President's Council.

Spanish Fork man wins American Angus Association award -- Dalton Sorensen of Spanish Fork was named junior member of the American Angus Association, a Saint Joseph, Mo.-based beef registry association with more than 34,000 members.

Junior members are eligible to register cattle in the American Angus Association, participate in programs conducted by the National Junior Angus Association and take part in association-sponsored shows and other national and regional events.

BYU student wins volunteer award -- Ben Hardin was awarded the 2006 Utah Animal Control Officers' Association's Volunteer of the Year for his work at the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter. Hardin, who is currently working on his master's degree in computer science at Brigham Young University, has been a volunteer with the animal shelter for nearly nine months.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page C4.