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  • Omaha game developer Accordion gives back this holiday season

    OMAHA—Local tech company Accordion Games is getting in the holiday spirit a little earlier this year and will be donating 10 percent of its mobile game sales to local nonprofits…

  • TAGG app helps make supporting local groups second nature

    TAGG app helps make supporting local groups second nature

    OMAHA—Now a local organization has created an easy way for shoppers to help support Omaha schools, nonprofits and other community groups. Last week Together a Greater Good (TAGG) launched its free mobile app on iOS and Android. Using the app, consumers may designate 5 percent of their purchases to be donated to the local organization…

  • John Wirtz on how Lincoln’s Haymarket has helped build Hudl

    John Wirtz on how Lincoln’s Haymarket has helped build Hudl

    John Wirtz wanted to be a politician. Growing up in a Kansas City bedroom community, he wanted to help solve people’s problems. He wanted to help community. Bring people together because the whole is bigger than the parts, he says. Just into his 30s, he isn’t a politician—but he’s still solving problems for 1000’s of…

  • Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer lays out agenda for tech growth and innovation

    Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer lays out agenda for tech growth and innovation

    Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer announced a new agenda to spur tech growth and innovation last week. The five-point plan includes incentivizing economic growth and innovation, expanding access to communication services, embracing technology and modernizing outdated rules, adopting regulatory restraint and champion oversight and transparency.

  • Altoona’s Facebook data center announces Community Action Grants

    Altoona’s Facebook data center announces Community Action Grants

    ALTOONA, IOWA—Last week, the almost $300 million Facebook data center campus under construction in Altoona, Iowa, announced an initiative that would help spur further community growth and engagement in the area.

  • Former House candidate launches BallotHero to easily inform voters

    A lot has changed since Jim Esch ran for Congress in 2008. The iPhone had just come out the year before. Facebook was still just a platform for friends, not marketing. Twitter had not gained its favor it has today. But while there has been technological strides elsewhere, money spent in political tech is largely…

  • Iowa BIG school exceeds enrollment goals for first semester in new location

    Iowa BIG school exceeds enrollment goals for first semester in new location

    CEDAR RAPIDS—Nearly a year ago, the Iowa BIG school’s headmaster Shawn Cornally set out to get 50 or 60 students enrolled for the fall semester…

  • Powderhook’s Eric Dinger: How I balance my startup and my marriage

    Powderhook’s Eric Dinger: How I balance my startup and my marriage

    Balancing the demands of a marriage, family and startup can be tough. My wife, Stephanie, has been an integral part of any success we’ve had at Powderhook. She doesn’t have a title, tasks or projects, yet her role is essential. We’ve been in business a little over a year, and our marriage is stronger than…

  • AIM to auction CEO and other C-level executives’ time for charity

    AIM to auction CEO and other C-level executives’ time for charity

    OMAHA— Bidding is open for the first annual AIM’s C-Level Auction. A chance to get time with high-level execs is is up for grabs.

  • A year after launch, gigabit Internet brings Omaha customers up to speed

    A year after launch, gigabit Internet brings Omaha customers up to speed

    After a test launch in July 2013 by CenturyLink and an official launch shortly thereafter, Internet speeds of 1-gigabit per second have officially been powering startups, businesses and homes in Omaha for more than a year.