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Handmark taps power of text messaging with POWOW release
Handmark, a mobile app developer in Kansas City, Mo., last week released its full-version of POWOW for Android, a text messaging app it believes is a cut above the rest. “While a number of text messaging products exist for Android, we saw the need for a single solution that easily combines the capabilities for one-to-one…
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Newsy makes Roku latest platform to carry its multisource news videos
Newsy today announced the availability of its channel on Roku, a streaming player. Newsy, a Columbia, Mo.-based news startup that we originally featured last summer, delivers the news of the day in multisource videos 2-3 minutes long that highlight the key differences in reporting from media outlets around the world. Those videos are now part…
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Win a ticket to Big Omaha courtesy of the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our premier sponsor of Big Omaha 2012, will grant one lucky entrepreneur a ticket to our sold-out show taking place May 9-11. The catch? On video, share why you want to attend Big Omaha and answer this Kauffman Foundation contest question: “What does participating in an entrepreneurial community mean to…
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Raikes School students unveil fruits of yearlong Design Studio projects
On Friday, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Raikes School held its annual Design Studio showcase, where juniors and seniors presented the yearlong projects they completed in partnership with real clients. Here’s a bit about each of this year’s projects, and a sampling of what the students have learned since August: Nelnet | Junior Alec Johnson, a…
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Prairie Moves: Jodi Stevens, VoterTide, Wade Foster 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…