What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit an item for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Read

“Questions to Ask at Google-Fiber Announcement” – Research analyst Scott Cleland blogs 20 questions to ask at Thursday’s Google Fiber announcement, including: How many employees will Google hire in Kansas City?

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Quotable

“They actually sort of jump-started the whole goal-based savings account thing.” – Stessa Cohen, a financial services analyst for Gartner in Philadelphia, speaking about SmartyPig in a USA Today article. – USA Today

Career Moves

• C.J. Moore left Red Nova Labs to pursue a career as a sports writer – Red Nova Labs blog and CJ Moore blog

Mentions

• SmartyPig – SmartyPig creates online savings plan to reach a goal – USA Today
• SmartyPig – Selling SmartyPig to Other Banks – DepositAccounts.com
• Appcore – Appcore flying high as cloud computing services take off – Des Moines Register
• Appy Hour: Silicon Prairie Innovators – KCUR
• Startup 101: You have an idea. How do you get funding for it? – KOMU

Gig Bits

Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.

• Questions to Ask at Google-Fiber Announcement – The Precusor Blog

Blogged

• What should a Center for Mobile Media do? – Gary Kebbel
• GO | The Future of Mobile Payments: Event Wrap-up – KCnext
• Shipton: How to successfully leverage conflict – Dan Shipton
• In-depth with the Think Big i-Team: Max Gall – Think Big Partners

Misc.

• Missouri has $4.75 million available for entrepreneurs – St. Louis Business Journal
• Who Wants to Be the Next Silicon Valley? – Fox Business
• Todd Barry chides KCI for its earnest Twitter account – Pitch
• Buffett Awards Stock to Young Entrepreneurs – Inc

Credits: Screenshot from precursorblog.com