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Prairie Moves: Number Laundry, T8 Webware, MindMixer and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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With aggressive growth in crosshairs, Zave Networks raises $10.6 million
Announcing a notable addition to our “Kansas City companies we’ll keep a closer eye on” file: Zave Networks, which recently raised $10.6 million, according to an SEC Form D filing on Aug. 9. Zave Networks, founded in 2006 and based in Kansas City, Kan., is a digital promotions and information management company that links online…
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Google, Associated Press team up to reward scholars in tech, journalism
Google and the Associated Press announced this week that they will sponsor the new AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program, which will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media …
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Omaha Creative Week returning Sept. 5-11
Pardon the oh-so-uncreative way I’m introducing this, but … area creatives, mark your calendars. A week just for you is on its way back to Omaha. Omaha Creative Week …
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RestingSpot launches to put loved ones on the map
Last November, Brett Atlas spent 45 minutes driving around a Chicago cemetery in search of his grandfather’s resting spot before he sent this text: “there should be an app for this.” Within moments after Atlas hit send, Scott Kroeger responded, and upon Atlas’ return to Omaha, the pair co-founded RestingSpot, a service that seeks to…
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Verizon’s 4G LTE network launches today, event scheduled for Sept. 20
Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers in Omaha and Council Bluffs will be able to surf the web, download files and share music and photos up to 10 times faster than before with Verizon Wireless’ 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. To celebrate this upgrade to faster internet on the go, Verizon has partnered with Silicon…