The Cascade Blog

Flash Is Again Under Fire

Last week, a group of hackers known as The Hacking Team was itself hacked. This led to information they were leveraging a vulnerability in the Adobe Flash browser plugin, commonly used to display video on the web, to remotely take control of people's computers....

PayPal Settles Surrounding Credit Service

Recently, news broke that online payment processing giant PayPal is settling claims from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for $25 million that its end users were signed up for the company’s credit service, formerly called Buy It Now, without their...

Pole Pedal Paddle... 13 yrs and counting.

I've had the good fortune of leading the talented cascade team for 13+ years now.  For 10 of those years, my wife Christi has been the company's controller.  If you hadn't heard, we like to get outside and enjoy this beautiful state we call...

Recognized as Bicycle Friendly Business by League of American Bicyclists

Last month Cascade was recognized by the League of American Bicyclists with a Silver Bicycle Friendly Business award! We join cutting-edge group of more than 950 local businesses, government  agencies and Fortune 500 companies across the United States that...

Mobile Friendliness: 'Mobilegeddon' Is Upon Us

As we wrote about back in March, tomorrow Google will roll out an update to mobile search algorithms, giving precedence to websites that the search engine sees as mobile optimized. According to one study, mobile devices will make up for half of paid search clicks by...

All Aboard!

Andy Pullen Joins The TeamWhen it comes to attracting high quality tech talent, Cascade has no problem filling seats on the train. This week Andy Pullen joined the crew, bringing PHP coding experience and detailed technical proficiency. But mostly, he’s just a...

Google says you best be mobile - friendly by April 21

Google Webmaster Tools is sending out notifications to web site owners lacking mobile-friendly sites in advance of the April 21st algorithm change that will penalize sites that are not mobile-friendly in mobile search results (this is not expected to affect desktop or...

Converting Web Traffic Into Customers - Omnichannel Trends in the Outdoor Industry

Ben McKinley travelled to the 2015 Snowsports Industry Association Snow Show in Denver again this year to support clients and drool over next year's gear.   He also presented on the topic of Converting Web Traffic to Customers:...