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  • Prairie Moves: Nick Nisi, Joe Petsick, TwitZip 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.

  • Thinc Iowa welcomes new speakers Jerri Chou & Luke Vandermillen

    We’re less than 20 days away from the inaugural Thinc Iowa event, and we’re starting to experience a familiar surge of energy. As we felt with our first Big Omaha conference in 2009, we’re overloaded with excitement and anticipation for what we’re bringing to Iowa. As we inch closer to Oct. 21, we are channeling…

  • Your submissions, our winner: ‘Why do you want to go to Thinc Iowa?’

    On Thursday, we shared with you our story of answering an important question, “Why Thinc Iowa?” Then, we turned it over to you: Why do you want to join us at the inaugural event? And to the best answer given, we offered a complimentary ticket, hotel stay and an invite to an exclusive speaker meet…

  • Sunday Video: Jeff Bezos on competitors

    With a week of Amazon dominating the headlines because of its latest Kindle rollout – four new products: a new basic Kindle, two new touch Kindles and the Kindle Fire – I took some time this weekend to look into the mind of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos. I came upon the video below of Bezos’…

  • Prairie Moves: Flying Hippo, Hurrdat, Grip and more

    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…

  • Free ticket, hotel to Thinc Iowa, tell us why you want to attend

    Why Thinc Iowa? That was the question on our mind over a year ago when we (Silicon Prairie News), spearheaded by Geoff Wood in Des Moines, set out to hold a 500-person event in Iowa’s capitol city. Thanks to a partnership with Performance Marketing and inspiration from local entrepreneurs and …

  • Thinc Iowa: The five downtown Des Moines venues

    As we near the date of the inaugural Thinc Iowa, an event we’re producing to explore the common ground between startups and established corporations, we’ve been thrilled to announce our first wave of speakers and sponsors. Today, we’re excited to reveal another important part of the day and a half event: the venues all those…

  • Prairie Moves: StartupCity, QuickCal, OneLouder 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…

  • Sunday Video: Arrington vs. Zuckerberg, for perspective’s sake

    Michael Arrington and Mark Zuckerberg are a couple of guys who have made the headlines a little bit lately, no? Arrington, of course, was recently deposed as editor of TechCrunch in an exit that caused quite the stir. And Zuckerberg’s never far from the limelight, but he was an especially hot topic this week thanks…

  • SPN Out & About: In Boston through Sunday for ONA11

    Somehow, I’ve made my way out to Boston to attend ONA11, the Online News Association’s annual conference and awards banquet that brings together, as the site says, “highly engaged digital journalists who are shaping the future of journalism and technology.” And not only do I have the pleasure of attending, but we’re honored to have…