February 21, 2012

  • The Big Omaha 2012 website is launching this week!

    Big Omaha is less than three months away, and some fun things are in the works. First up is a new brand and identity (sneak peek, left) from our friends at Oxide Design, our fantastic design partner since the event’s inaugural year. Stay tuned to Silicon Prairie News for the Big Omaha website launch announcement…

  • PeggyBank raises $500k with plans for tech upgrades, more marketing

    PeggyBank has closed a $500,000 Series A round, company founder and CEO Jim Simon said in a phone interview. Although Simon declined to divulge specifics about the first outside funding his startup has taken …

  • Lava Row, CDS Global present free showing of ‘Page One’ on Thursday

    “Page One: Inside the New York Times,” a film we encouraged our readers to see when it was released in July, has a special showing scheduled in Des Moines on Thursday thanks to the work of Lava Row and CDS Global. The two companies have teamed up to host a free screening of the documentary…

  • Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Jimmy Winter and Chris Burns

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 75 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office in downtown Des Moines. We’ll be joined by guests Jimmy Winter of VoterTide and Chris Burns. This week we’ll talk with Winter about VoterTide’s recent news as well as look into the Silicon Prairie companies that…

  • Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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…

  • Boulder-based MeNetwork closes angel round from Omaha investors

    MeNetwork, a Boulder, Colo.-based mobile marketing platform, recently raised a second angel round of about $500k, a “similar range” to its first round one year ago, the startup’s CEO, Mike Corbisiero, said in a phone interview on Friday. Though MeNetwork’s headquarters aren’t in Omaha, one of its co-founders, Craig Paige, and two of its board…