April 26, 2012

  • Inflection’s Omaha team staying put after $100m sale of Archives.com

    Chalk any uptick in midweek traffic at the Kobe Steakhouse in west Omaha this week up to patronage from the folks at Inflection. Inflection’s employees were, after all, in something of a celebratory mood. The company on Wednesday announced the sale of its family history website, Archives.com, to Ancestry.com for $100 million in cash. Inflection…

  • Spend your summer with SPN, apply for our event internship

    This year, we set out to increase our role in connecting the Silicon Prairie community and in doing so, we’ve put together an ambitious schedule of events. This summer, we’re looking for a summer intern to help us build upon our meetups, brainstorm for our summer ice cream social, prepare for Thinc Iowa – one…

  • Ten reasons to attend OpenIowa, a public data competition

    Ready for a challenge? StartupIowa is daring developers, designers and data junkies to turn public data sets into something useful at its first OpenIowa event. The code-a-thon is similar to other open-data events sprouting up around the country, like the recent Hack Omaha. Similar to Startup Weekend, OpenIowa challenges attendees to launch a product in…

  • Developer-driven Iowa Code Camp coming to Cedar Rapids on May 5

    Iowa Code Camp, a free, daylong conference by and for developers, will return for a ninth go-around on May 5. The event …

  • DivvyHQ aims to help companies manage content sans spreadsheets

    Managing content for a business can be stressful and time intensive for companies without a plan and a simple process. Take, for example, a company selling a software product. There’s product information in press releases, on the website, in the web API, in a flyer, in the user documentation and in the customer support materials.…