December 6, 2011

  • Meet Marco Santana, the Register’s new tech and startup reporter

    Marco Santana, the Des Moines Register’s new technology and startup reporter, is comfortable to admit he was “the journalism nerd” in college. Or as he put it: “The guy who wore his ‘journalist’ T-shirt to the bar and did not think twice about it.” “Now, after a few years in the field,” Santana said in…

  • Iowa Governor Branstad makes a stop at Pinterest (Photo)

    Pinterest’s connection to Iowa was not lost on our state’s leadership today as Gov. Terry Branstad made a stop by their offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann (left of the Pinterest “P” above) is a Des Moines native who said in an email today that the visit was exciting for the team…

  • Building our team in preparation for 2012: Come join us!

    As we close out what has been an amazing year in the Silicon Prairie community, at Silicon Prairie News we’re busy planning for what promises to be another year of exciting activities and continued growth. It’s inspiring to look back just a little more than three years ago to the start of what continues to…

  • TechBrew Des Moines moves to Tues. Dec. 13 for Holiday Edition

    The Technology Association of Iowa has shifted its TechBrew Des Moines event, a causal networking and cocktail event, to 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at StartupCity Des Moines (317 6th Ave. 5th floor). Regularly held on Thursdays at Dos Rios, this special holiday edition TechBrew will gather those same entrepreneurs, technologists, business people and…

  • Prairie Moves: Sue Munnik, Mark Palmer, Juan Gomez 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. …

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Emma Peterson and Sam DuRegger

    Tikly’s Emma Peterson and Charming Beard Production’s Sam DuRegger join us live at 2 p.m. for Episode 65 of PrairieCast. This week we welcome a new sponsor to the show: Delta Dental of Iowa. Delta Dental recently kicked off a new focus on providing to entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout the state. Thanks Delta Dental…

  • A belated Thinc Iowa thank you to Quova

    The team at Silicon Prairie News would like to extend a gracious thank you to Quova, a Mountain View, Cal.-based company that sponsored our two premiere events, Thinc Iowa and Big Omaha. Founded in 2000, Quova helps businesses of all sizes optimize geolocation based data. Quova’s services and information is used by some of the…

  • Kauffman Sketchbook: Kansas City is the ‘City of Entrepreneurs’ (Video)

    “The entrepreneurial spirit in Kansas City,” says one of the video’s narrators, “is stronger than the lines that separate us.” That narrator, Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James, is referring to the state boarder separating the Missouri and Kansas sides of Kansas City. And though the state line has served as a point of contention…

  • Gigabit Challenge announces 39 semi-finalists

    The Gigabit Challenge, a competition being hosted by Think Big Partners to celebrate the arrival of Google’s one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, announced its 39 semi-finalists today chosen from a field of 113 submissions. …