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Early Omaha mobile development shop Ninth Division shuts down
Apple opened up its iPhone to third party app makers in March 2008. Less than a year later, Omaha developer Andy Peters left his full-time job and founded Ninth Division, a mobile app development shop. “There wasn’t anyone at the time that was doing it full-time,” he said. “Nowadays, there’s really big versions of Ninth…
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Kauffman awards KC-area college $500k to boost entrepreneurship
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced a $500,000 grant to William Jewell College, a liberal arts school in Liberty, Mo., to enhance the school’s entrepreneurial culture on campus. It will be distributed over a three-year period to develop a “sustainable environment …
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Invest Nebraska backs surgical device maker, golf club fitting software
State-funded venture capital organization Invest Nebraska recently announced it put an undisclosed amount into Lincoln, Neb.-based Pro-Fit Performance Club Fitting, a company constructing a club-fitting software system. “Pro-Fit has been able to effectively deliver an entirely …
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Iowa State researcher to share findings on iPad use in early learning
School of education assistant professor Amy Carter Hutchinson is among 37 Iowa State University researchers headed to San Francisco for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The meeting, which will be held April 27-May 1, will help …
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As Facebook data center details emerge, Google grabs headlines, too
Data centers in Iowa are dominating headlines this week as Facebook on Monday announced its intention to build a facility in Altoona and the next day the State of Iowa revealed Google is expanding its existing project in Council Bluffs. The immediate costs of these two projects is expected to reach nearly $700 million, creating…
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One Million Cups’ Nate Olson talks at TEDxCoMo, answers our questions
One million of anything is a lot. About a year ago, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Nate Olson set out to reach that many cups of coffee within the Kansas City startup community when he helped created 1 Million Cups (1MC), a weekly program that provides two startups the opportunity to present their companies to an…