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  • Mayor unveils Launch KC, effort to attract and develop tech business

    They didn’t shout it, per se, but Kansas City leaders took a rooftop Monday to announce news about Launch KC, a new effort to attract tech entrepreneurs and companies to the Crossroads Arts District and Greater Downtown Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo. mayor Sly James and Mayors’ Bistate Innovations Team co-chairman Mike Burke led a…

  • Gig Bits: Mayors’ task force unveils ‘playbook,’ Fiber timetable delayed

    Nearly two months have passed since the last installment of our Gig Bits series. That gap in coverage can be explained, in part, by the fact that it’s been all quiet on the Fiber front — at least from Google’s side, anyway. The Kansas City Star reported earlier this month that the timetable for Fiber…

  • KC’s going gaga for Google Fiber. But what will it mean? (Video)

    Amidst talk that Google is thinking about entering the TV game and speculation that Kansas City, with the impending arrival of Google’s ultra high-speed network, is a good candidate to serve as a testing ground for the TV service, there’s been an interesting confluence of buzz-building and reality-checking in the last few days regarding the…