Product Update February 1, 2013


Boulder-based Mobio Holdings LLC introduced Mobio Go, Mobio Grip and Mobio Pivot to make tablets and smartphones more convenient, functional and fun. They use magnetic-based technology to securely hold mobile devices — in a vehicle with Mobio Go, in the user’s hand with Mobio Grip or for adjustable viewing with Mobio Grip. Courtesy Mobil Holdings LLC

Boulder Beer Co. and Lincoln, California-based Knee Deep Brewing Co. teamed to produce Shakenbake, a golden-colored Rye India pale ale. The ale was brewed at Boulder Beer with the assistance of Knee Deep brewmaster Jeremy Warren, exclusively for the Sacramento and San Francisco Beer Weeks and will be tapped at opening galas on Friday, Feb. 8, in Boulder and San Francisco. Shakenbake contains ingredients from both states, with California-grown Ivanhoe, Gargoyle and Chinook hops and pale malt grown in Colorado and malted at the artisan Colorado Malting Co. in Alamosa.

Startup company Slope Squad LLC launched a mobile application to help skiers track their days on the slopes, compete for prizes and upload photos. Boulder-based Slope Squad’s mobile application — slopesquad.com — offers statistics similar to the Epic Mix application — epicmix.com — from Vail Resorts Inc., a ski-resort operator based in Broomfield. Slope Squad is funded by founders Jody Shepherd, Rachel Vecchitto and Taylor McLemore. The company’s collected data will be offered for free to ski areas this year, Shepherd said. The mobile application is free for skiers to use. In the future, the company may charge ski areas for data and seek corporate sponsors.

Boulder-based Cheribundi, a maker of tart cherry juice beverages, will introduce 11 new products at the Fancy Food Show, to be held in San Francisco Jan. 20-22. The company will also unveil new packaging, trademarks and logos. Relax and Restore will complement existing flavors Rebuild, Light and Tart Cherry (original) in the functional line. Cheribundi is also introducing a line of 16.9-ounce oz. beverages naturally flavored with juice and tea. The Refresh Tea line includes four flavors combined with tart cherry juice: Rooibos, Black, Green and Jasmine teas. The Refresh Juice line introduces five new flavors: Cherry Lemonade, Cherry Blueberry, Cherry Cranberry, Cherry Pomegranate and Cherry Raspberry.

Boulder-based Anark Corp., a provider of automated 3-D computer-aided design transformation and product-visualization solutions, introduced Anark Core MBEWorks for SolidWorks 2013. The company said the new release has the ability to transform native SolidWorks 2013 parts and assemblies with 3D dimensions and tolerances, 3D GD&T, and other 3D notes into high-fidelity 3D PDF and 3D HTML MBE documents.

Boulder-based Rally Software Development Corp. introduced AgileZen for iPad. The real-time project collaboration solution displays projects visually as an electronic drag-and-drop board, and syncs activity between the iPad and cloud apps.

Broomfield-based Webroot Software Inc. unveiled the Webroot Security Intelligence for Mobile Suite to give mobile technology providers — from carriers to device manufacturers to mobile device management companies — easily deployable and cost-effective services to make security an integral part of their own offerings.