April 17, 2012

  • Front Flip takes its customer engagement platform nationwide

    Front Flip is ready to bring its virtual scratch cards to vendors across the country. The Overland Park, Kan.-based startup today announced the nationwide availability of its customer engagement platform, which is designed to help businesses attract, engage, reward and retain customers through the use of “scratch cards” on mobile phones. Following pilots in select…

  • Prairie Moves: Ashton Kutcher invests in Dwolla edition

    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…

  • With focus on mobile, Kebbel ushers in change for UNL journalism

    Gary Kebbel sees the future of journalism – and the world – in mobile. “Cell phones and mobile devices are the one, only supreme way to bridge every digital divide I can think of,” said Kebbel (left), the Dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the current driving force…

  • PrairieCast video: A retrospective on the podcast series

    It’s not every week that you get the chance to have Ashton Kutcher on your podcast. Not to be overshadowed by the big interview, after its conclusion we recorded the final episode of PrairieCast (queued up in the video above) where Danny Schreiber, Andy Brudtkuhl and I look back on everything that was PrairieCast. A…