Kansas City Star

  • The Star spotlights Dropbox co-founder, KC native Arash Ferdowsi

    Kansas City native Arash Ferdowsi (far left) may have a unique career path and success in the tech industry, but he still shares one thing in common with many in his hometown: he’s a huge Kansas City Chiefs fans. And a frustrated one, too, the Kansas City Star noted in its Saturday feature story on…

  • Garmin co-founder shares three keys to startup success

    Garmin co-founder Min Kao points to an early decision to provide insurance and other benefits to employees as one that helped his company build a strong corporate culture. “Even when advisors said ‘no, don’t do that til you’re successful,’ but we did,” Kao (left) told the Kansas City Star in what the outlet called a…

  • Gig Bits: Connecting dots between Google moves in Council Bluffs, KC

    For a project that’s expected to enable uploads and downloads at ultra-fast speeds, Google Fiber has come into focus at a plodding pace. But thanks to reports that surfaced over the weekend and early this week, people are beginning to connect the dots between recent Google activity in two Silicon Prairie hubs. First, several outlets…

  • Gig Bits: Crews laying fiber in Kansas City, Google applies to test Wi-Fi

    Google announced in a blog post published in the wee hours this morning that crews in Kansas City are ready to begin construction of the company’s much ballyhooed ultra high-speed fiber network. “We’ve measured utility poles; we’ve studied maps and surveyed neighborhoods; we’ve come up with a comprehensive set of detailed …

  • KC Star looks at Google Fiber from Mountain View vantage point

    The Kansas City Star on Sunday took perhaps the most expansive look at Google Fiber in Kansas City that we’ve seen so far from any media outlet, and it did so from a different vantage point. Where most literature on the arrival of Google’s ultra high-speed netwrok in Kansas City has honed in on what…

  • Kansas City Star looks at state of startups, focusing on three KC firms

    A story in today’s Kansas City Star offers an interesting look at the state of tech startups in Kansas City through the lens of life working for three area firms — Five and Fifty, Front Flip and AudioAnywhere. (Left, article sreenshot from kansascity.com.) Five and Fifty, which we most recently reported on last month after…