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Boutique Window launches its online marketing tool for small retailers
After three months in private beta, Lincoln, Neb., startup Boutique Window on Friday began letting any small retailer sign up for its online marketing tool. The startup’s software, which costs users $40-$60 per month, aims to make it easy for brick-and-mortar stores, such as clothing boutiques, to showcase their merchandise online in order to boost…
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Timeline shows Sprint-Handmark relationship traces back to 2005
Earlier today, we reported Sprint acquired Handmark and its subsidiary, OneLouder. But we haven’t been along for the entire journey like the Kansas City Business Journal. Reporter Alyson Raletz put together a timeline showing how the deal coalesced, including the fact it took almost four months …
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Bandwidth Pool pulls in $100k loan from State of Iowa
The Iowa Economic Development Authority on Friday awarded a $100,000 loan to Bandwith Pool, the Cedar Rapids startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to find reliable and affordable Internet providers. The assistance came through the state’s Demonstration Fund, a fund that aims to help potential high-growth companies reach a position where they’re…
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DonorsChoose.org, myEDmatch team to identify “entrepreneurial teachers”
Education startup myEDmatch has quickly—seven months since launch—caught the eye of DonorsChoose.org, the nonprofit that since 2000 has raised about $180 million for classroom projects. The Kansas City startup, which offers teachers and administrators “online dating for education jobs,” now provides users the ability to showcase a DonorsChoose.org project on their profile. “Our partnership with myEDmatch…
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Sprint acquires homegrown Handmark, OneLouder
Sprint didn’t have to call long distance to acquire app developer Handmark and its social and mobile advertising subsidiary OneLouder. The 13-year-old company is based about 20 miles north of Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park, Kan. The telecom giant today announced the move, one it says it made in an effort to boost its advertising…