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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…
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Handmark founder Augie Grasis reflects on life, work in KC (Video)
Silicon Prairie News has occasionally chronicled the work of Kansas City, Mo. application developer Handmark and regularly reports on the exploits of Handmark’s social media app spinoff, OneLouder. (In fact, we published a story on OneLouder’s latest offering, Slices, just last week.) We’ve had less frequent opportunity to report on the man …
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Handmark taps power of text messaging with POWOW release
Handmark, a mobile app developer in Kansas City, Mo., last week released its full-version of POWOW for Android, a text messaging app it believes is a cut above the rest. “While a number of text messaging products exist for Android, we saw the need for a single solution that easily combines the capabilities for one-to-one…
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Handmark founder Grasis gives view from ‘the bleeding edge of technology’
Handmark founder and chairman, Augie Grasis knows a thing or two about staying on the bleeding edge of technology. Back when the Android Marketplace and Apple’s app store didn’t exist, Grasis was making a living on $29.99 apps like Tela Atlas and app suites such as PocketExpress. Nowadays, I would think long and hard before…
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Win tickets to see Handmark founder speak at KC Next event tonight
Join the Kansas City entrepreneurial community for KC Next’s second to last Technology Entrepreneur Speakers Program of 2011. The event, which starts at 5:30 this evening at Polsinelli Shughart PC (700 W. 47th St, Ste 1000), will feature Augie Grasis of Handmark who will speak on “Living on the Bleeding Edge of Technology Without Bleeding…