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Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase our content volume, check out our post: “Calling all contributors: SPN adding to team across the region“.

What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com.

Career Moves

• Torsion Mobile (Des Moines) brought on Tony Leo (Alexandria, Va.-based) to its development team

New Tech

• What Cheer (Omaha) launched its first product, Bumble, a home phone application created for children – bumblephone.com

New Creative

• DownsDesign (Omaha) redesigned the BarCamp Omaha website – barcampomaha.com

Product/Business Development

• eDossea (Des Moines) launched a refreshed website – edossea.com
• Proxibid (Omaha) partnered with World Wide Auctioneers Partners with for its global online equipment auctions – businesswire.com
• SmartyPig (Des Moines) updated its mobile app, including the added functionality of finding cash-back rewards by category and location with map-based browsing – blog.smartypig.com
• Dwolla’s (Des Moines) Grid saw its first full implementation come a few weeks ago from a Silicon Valley-based company called Neat School – dwolla.com/blog
• Introvio (Des Moines) released its alpha version – introvio.com
• DocLanding (Omaha) is moving offices – twitter.com/doclanding

Media Mentions

• Levi Rosol of ScoreYard (Des Moines) – Des Moines Business Record: “Levi Rosol: Co-founder, ScoreYard” 
• Emma Peterson of Tikly (Des Moines) – Des Moines Business Record: “Emma Peterson: CEO, Tikly Co.“
• Nebraska Talent and Innovation Initiative – Omaha World-Herald: “Big start to intern program” and Lincoln Journal Star: “Nebraska internship program launches website” 
• Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Francisco-based) – UNY Startups on YouTube: “August 2 NY Tech Meetup Zaarly, CEO Bo Fishback (NYC)” and Menlo Park Patch: “Man Wants to Stay in Local Bar the Entire Weekend“
• Cornstalks Demo Night (Omaha) – DocLanding blog: “What I Learned at Cornstalks Demonstration Night” 
• Christian Renaud of Startup City Des Moines – Des Moines Register: “Five things you should know about starting a tech company in Iowa“
• Infegy (Kansas City) – Benzinga: “New Gleanster Research on Social Intelligence Reveals Best Practices in the New Frontier of Social Media Monitoring and Analysis“
• Corey Spitzer of Startup Weekend Omaha – The Weekly Grind
• T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, IA) – Cedar Valley Business Monthly: “Column: Information technology central to local economy“

Misc.

• Vault Coworking (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) opened its doors for business – facebook.com/crvault
• The Omaha Maker Group, Omaha’s “makerspace,” will give a tutorial on 3D printing tonight – omahamakergroup.com
• Ninth Yard (Omaha) announced its giving away a free year of its bug tracking app, TrackJumper, to Startup Weekend Omaha participants – omaha.startupweekend.com
• Kansas City IT Professionals (Kansas City) posted photos from its Zaarly Launch Party in June – facebook.com
• Iowa State Fair (Des Moines) launched a mobile website – kcci.com
• South by Southwest (Austin, Texas) put its tickets on sale – sxsw.com – and announced a scholarship for organizations using new media to push the boundaries of tackling community problems – sxsw.com