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  • Yahoo’s Margenett Moore-Roberts to speak at Big Omaha 2017

    Yahoo’s Margenett Moore-Roberts to speak at Big Omaha 2017

    Big Omaha features speakers from across the globe who bring a wide variety of experiences and knowledge to the Silicon Prairie. As Big Omaha announces their speakers, we’ll be featuring them on SPN so you can get to know them and find out how they’re helping to shape the startup ecosystem prior to the conference…

  • Yahoo Omaha recognized as one of the metro’s best companies

    Yahoo Omaha recognized as one of the metro’s best companies

    Facebook’s March announcement that the internet giant will be bringing a data center to the Omaha area turned the local tech community’s attention from the startups and entrepreneurs to the large corporations that call the Silicon Prairie home. Aside from jobs and revenue, community members are always curious as to what else these additions bring…

  • Yahoo celebrates 20 years, 6 years in Omaha

    Yahoo celebrates 20 years, 6 years in Omaha

    On Monday Yahoo celebrated its 20th anniversary with a global party and a record-breaking mass yodel. Over 350 Yahoo employees in the Omaha area participated in the event. The Omaha office includes ad operations, sales, and finance, as well as a data center, serving Yahoo’s one billion users. Altogether these departments make Omaha/La Vista the…

  • Web designer, project coordinator, programmers and 20 more

    We’re excited to bring you our 108th Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your position using our Job Board …

  • Inside sales, iOS developer, digital director, web analyst and 12 more

    We’re excited to bring you our 107th Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions using our Job Board …

  • Sojern brings Yahoo! veteran Mark Rabe aboard as CEO

    Mark Rabe will succeed Gordon Whitten as chief executive officer of Sojern, the Omaha-based company announced today. Whitten founded Sojern, which provides destination-specific content and advertising on airline online boarding passes, and has served as CEO of the company since its inception in 2007. Whitten will stay on at Sojern, focusing on next generation partnerships…

  • Graphic Designer, Rails Developer, Marketing Intern & More

    We’re excited to bring you our 46th Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from MindMixer and Yahoo! in Omaha, Craft.ly and Blue Space Creative in…

  • Developers, Designers, Social Media Specialists & more

    We’re excited to bring you our 43rd Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from: Deal Garden, Hayneedle, New Nectar Media, Yahoo!, ImageMarket, and…

  • Get to know our Big Omaha sponsors. They rock.

    Big Omaha year two is about to go down. Big Omaha year one was a success. How did all this come to be? When the short story is told, it starts in the summer of 2008 when Jeff Slobotski challenged himself and Silicon Prairie News co-founder Dusty Davidson to set a date, find a venue…

  • Yahoo! co-founder, Nebraska Governor cut ribbon on data center

    On Wednesday, Yahoo! opened its new 180,000-square-foot data center in LaVista, located just south of Omaha. Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang was on hand for the celebration. In 1994, Yang, along with his business partner David Filo, founded Yahoo! while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The Nebraska data center is servicing Internet traffic around…