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  • With OneClick, SmartyPig creates a “saving cart” across the web

    Extending the reach of its goal-based online saving bank, SmartyPig today will introduce OneClick, a feature that lets users start saving for a product on any ecommerce website. Whether it’s saving for a television on Amazon or a treadmill on Walmart.com, SmartyPig no longer requires its users to return to its website to start a…

  • Social Money set to double staff, space in coming months

    Social Money today announced plans to more than double its workspace and workforce this summer. The company, which makes products for goal-based, social savings, currently has 30 employees. Most are based in Social Money’s West Des Moines headquarters. The company said in a release that it plans to hire close to 35 additional employees, both…

  • Social Money Systems opens office in India, expects more in U.S. & abroad

    Social Money Systems, the recently introduced new parent company of SmartyPig, today announced the opening of an office in Chandigarh, India. The office, which is the company’s first outside its West Des Moines headquarters, will hold four employees, Social Money co-founder Mike Ferrari said last week. The news comes on the heels of Social Money’s…

  • Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Mike Ferrari and Mike Colwell

    Join us live today at 2 p.m. for Episode 73 of PrairieCast. Our guests will be Mike Ferrari, co-founder of Social Money Systems, and Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone. As you’d expect, we’ll cover the news (not rumors this time) that just broke about Dwolla’s investment round and also get the inside…

  • SmartyPig unveils GoalSaver, a social savings platform for banks

    SmartyPig, an online social savings platform, today announced a pair of big changes. The Des Moines-based company will go by a new name, Social Money Systems. It also will offer a new product, GoalSaver, which is a customizable, social savings, transaction-focused platform for banks that utilizes a bank’s brand and regulatory and compliance systems to…

  • More on SmartyPig: Interview with BitMethod & account rate update

    In our article yesterday covering the release of the SmartyPig iPhone app, SmartyPig COO Michael Ferrari gave a nice mention to BitMethod, a mobile…

  • SmartyPig announces new banking partner BBVA Compass

    This morning, SmartyPig, a social banking startup headquartered in West Des Moines, announced they are moving to a new banking partner, BBVA Compass.

  • TEDxDesMoines speaker lineup announced

    When the renowned TED talks series makes its local debut in Des Moines next month, the one day event will feature…

  • PrairieCast: Mike Ferrari of SmartyPig on his startup experience

    This week in PrairieCast, Andy and I are joined by Mike Ferrari, the co-founder of West Des Moines-based SmartyPig (Twitter: @SmartyPig). SmartyPig is a web-based money saving startup, founded by Mike and Jon Gaskell in 2006. Mike shared his experience launching a startup, from making the decision to quit his day job to working full-time…