Hewlett-Packard is celebrating a  newly renovated 60,000 square-foot building, an expanding tech workforce in El Paso and looking forward to continued success on the border, according to today’s El Paso Times. The Times’ Vic Kolenc reports the El Paso facility, one of three software application delivery centers HP operates in the United States, already employs several hundred technology professionals and plans to continue hiring...

You are not alone. Get together with other bloggers from El Paso, Southern New Mexico and Juarez in a casual gathering to share ideas and help promote El Paso-area blogging and readership. This month’s meeting will be at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 at The Den / The Room in El Paso. RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BorderlandBloggers/events/77926832/  

Brandon Silverstein could have left El Paso with his computer science degree from UTEP in 2004, but he predicted his hometown was on the verge of offering greater career opportunities to someone with digital skills and a strong local network. “I chose to stay in El Paso because it was the perfect place to start my own business,” said Silverstein, 30, the owner of website building company Impulse Development. “I had numerous friends, family, and...