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Kansas City’s blooom takes home Best of Show at Finovate in NYC
NEW YORK CITY—The team behind blooom knew that Finovate’s fall conference in New York City would be a great place to officially launch their company. But Wednesday the Kansas City-based startup got an extra boost when blooom was named one of Finovate’s Best of Show winners.
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PeggyBank merges with California company, operations will move
OMAHA— PeggyBank, an Omaha-based company that digitizes and uploads old printed photos, slides and VCR tapes to the cloud, has merged with ScanDigital.com, a similar outfit in California…
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Share your “big idea” and you could win a ticket to Big Kansas City
Our friends at the Kauffman Foundation want to give one person the opportunity to start their something big by rewarding them a ticket to Big Kansas City 2014. How? It’s easy. Simply tell us what you want to start.
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Garmin announces development platform for third-party app builders
OLATHE, KAN.—On Wednesday, GPS technology giant Garmin announced a new platform that will change the game for third-party developers looking to get into the wearable space. While developers won’t be able to gain access to the hardware until 2015, Garmin’s newly launched Connect IQ platform will open up the company’s technology to third-party developers looking…
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AIM, Interface and Omaha Code School host “Build the Pipeline” mixer
AIM, a nonprofit dedicated to furthering tech in the community, is sponsoring a “Build the Pipeline” mixer co-hosted by Interface Web School and Omaha Code School to introduce students, grads and staff of both programs to the corporate tech community, community leaders and others in the community.
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Big Kansas City lineup finalized with addition of three more speakers
Technology, design, fashion and nonprofit – just a few of the industries represented by this year’s Big Kansas City speaker list. But you didn’t think we were done with our lineup yet, did you? Today marks the two week point from the Opening Party, and we have an exciting announcement. Here are three more leaders…
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How Rocket Referrals’ Carl Maerz wrote an e-book to generate leads
(Guest post by Carl Maerz) For those of you not local to Des Moines, chances are you have never heard of Rocket Referrals. We are a tech startup founded by me and my brother, Torey. Known in the entrepreneur community as “bro-founders” we share the same blood, but have much different skill sets. You know,…