Prairie Moves: Miranda Bouck, ActiveGrade, Powow and more

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…

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

  • Miranda Bouck joined Grain & Mortar (Omaha) as a graphic designer
  • Scott Thompson, formerly with Nebraska Technology Solutions, joined Healthcare Data Solutions (Irvine, Calif.-based, Lincoln office) as Vice President of Technology Solutions – Press Release

New Tech

  • Handmark (Kansas City, Mo.) released Powow: Text Messaging, billed as taking “texting to a level never seen on an Android device” – Android Market and Android Police

Product/Business Development

  • Think Big Partners (Kansas City, Mo.) and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce announced they’ve teamed up with H&R Block (Kansas City) to host an innovation and entrepreneurship conference in Kansas City in June – Press Release, SPN
  • AgLocal (Overland Park, Kan.) was accepted in the NewME Accelerator (San Francisco), a startup accelerator for businesses led by under-represented minorities in the technology industry – NewME Accelerator blog and TechCrunch
  • ActiveGrade (Iowa City, Iowa) announced its advisory board made up of seven teachers – Press Release
  • Shoplr (Ames, Iowa) released a new version of its iOS app – shoplrapp.com and Apple App Store
  • MindMixer (Omaha) launched a site for the City of Des Moines – Revitalize Des Moines
  • ShareWhere (Des Moines) rolled out rewards, an iOS app and a merchant center – sharewhere.com, ShareWhere blog and Apple App Store
  • Locusic (Des Moines) rolled out its sharing on Facebook feature – Locusic blog
  • Social Money Systems (West Des Moines) opened an office in India – SPN, Des Moines Register and American Banker

Mentions

Gig Bits

See SPN’s latest Gig Bits post, an occasional feature keeping you up to speed on Google Fiber

Awards & Recognition

  • Dwolla (Des Moines) and Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office) named to Fast Company’s “Innovative Companies” list in its finance and web/internet categories, respectively – Fast Company

Blogged

Misc.

  • The Des Moines Register rolled out its Iowa Innovation spotlight – Marco Santana on Twitter
  • An Omaha Coworking Meetup group was created in Omaha – Meetup
  • It was discoved that the “Zaarly RV” at South by Southwest Interactive 2011 was captured on Google Maps – Eric Jorgenson on Twitter
  • Hatchlings had nearly 5 million eggs collected in its Beta 2 version – Brad Dwyer on Twitter


Image credits: Photo by Victor Engmark via Flickr

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