What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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.
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Career Moves
- Brian Langenfeld joined Ninth Division (Omaha) – Ninth Division blog
Mentions
- Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship – Omaha World-Herald: “Just do it, entrepreneur tells conference goers“
- Torsion Mobile (Des Moines) – Shreveport Times: “Mobile website design important for businesses’ on-the-go users“
- Nebraska Global (Lincoln, Neb.) – Lincoln Journal Star: “Nebraska Global: Doing well by doing good“
- What Cheer (Omaha) – Omaha World-Herald: “Rainbow: I love ____ in Omaha because ____“
- DSMbride.com (Des Moines) – Des Moines Register: “Tech Spotlight: DSMbride“
- Tikly (Des Moines) – Dwolla: “Nice Grid (OAuth) Implementation from Tikly” (Video)
- AgLocal (Kansas City) – Business Insider: “This Guy Left His Six-Figure Job And Sold Everything He Owned To Start This” and “The Second Class Of Minority Entrepreneurs Just Moved Into This Hilltop House” and and Mashable: “With Second Cohort, NewMe Continues Accelerating Minority Entrepreneurship“
- Omaha World-Herald: “Survival of the startups“
Gig Bits
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- Fierce Cable: “Google fiber edging device could help it rapidly connect homes in Kansas City to 1-Gig network“
- Kansas City Business Journal: “Google explores quicker way of laying fiber to homes, online publication says“
- BBC: “Google Fiber: Can ultra-fast internet change a city?“
Recognition
- SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) was named to Pocket Gamer’s “Top 50 Developers of 2012” list
- OneLouder (Kansas City) was selected as a top developer in the Android Market – Press Release
Blogged
- Tikly (Des Moines): “Tikly Launch Party” (Photos)
- Bo Fishback of Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office): “Steering Through the Unknown Challenges of a Startup“
- Think Big Partners (Kansas City): “Part 3: The Evolution of the Mobile Gaming App“
Misc.
- Portfolio.com listed Pulse Marketing & Advertising’s (Leawood, Kan.) business card design in its “High-Impact Business Cards” list
- Kansas City Startup Weekend announced it will take place April 13-15 in Union Station – twitter.com/kcsw
- Kansas City IT Professionals redesigned its site – KCITP blog
- Design+Tech launched a website – designplustech.com
Credits: Photo by Jarek Zok via Flickr
