May 31, 2012

  • Eddie Huang seeks a greater purpose in his pursuit of paper (Video)

    The speaker who strolled on stage at Big Omaha 2012 to the cash-infused chorus of Kayne West song was, unsurprisingly, unapologetic about his own acquisition of liquid capital. “People are always like, ‘It’s not about money; it’s not about money,” Eddie Huang said during his May 11 talk at Big Omaha. “It is about money.…

  • Gig Bits: Mayors’ task force unveils ‘playbook,’ Fiber timetable delayed

    Nearly two months have passed since the last installment of our Gig Bits series. That gap in coverage can be explained, in part, by the fact that it’s been all quiet on the Fiber front — at least from Google’s side, anyway. The Kansas City Star reported earlier this month that the timetable for Fiber…

  • Prairie Portrait: Tony Leo of Torsion Mobile

    Silicon Prairie News: Give me your elevator pitch for Torsion Mobile’s Mojaba. Why are mobile-friendly sites preferable to native apps? Tony Leo: Our official one-liner is Mojaba is a mobile-web publishing platform exclusively for agencies. Basically, it’s a pretty cool piece of web-based software that allows an agency to create a mobile-optimized website without contracting…