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Prairie Moves: Fortune focuses on pending Iowa, Nebraska data center
Lead Read: “On America’s plains, a war for server farms” – Fortune sheds light on a $1.5 billion data center project that Iowa and Nebraska are competing to land. Rumored companies behind the project include Facebook, Apple and Amazon. | Quotable: “I don’t know if Hatchlings is my ticket to becoming a billionaire, but I’m…
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Help us welcome Regan Carrizales to the SPN team
It’s with great pleasure today that I get to introduce the newest member of the Silicon Prairie News team, our community builder in Kansas City, Regan Carrizales. Though we announced Regan at our BIG Global Entrepreneurship Week Party in November, this week marks the start of her position at SPN. With that in mind, we…
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Kauffman tabs DST’s McDonnell as CEO, names Kreamer board chair
Tom McDonnell, a man who for months has been at the center of considerable speculation about the next president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, has been tabbed to take the reins of the Kansas City, Mo.-based organization, which has an asset base of close to $2 billion and focuses on entrepreneurship and…
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CNN shines spotlight on Kansas City Startup Village (Video)
CNN show Anderson Cooper 360º on Monday highlighted the entrepreneurial activity taking place in the first neighborhood to receive Google Fiber in the Kansas City area. “In the bustling heart of Kansas City, the pioneer spirit is burning brightly,” CNN’s Tom Foreman reports as footage from the Nov. 28 edition of 1 Million Cups appears.…