Andy Peters

  • Early Omaha mobile development shop Ninth Division shuts down

    Apple opened up its iPhone to third party app makers in March 2008. Less than a year later, Omaha developer Andy Peters left his full-time job and founded Ninth Division, a mobile app development shop. “There wasn’t anyone at the time that was doing it full-time,” he said. “Nowadays, there’s really big versions of Ninth…

  • Download the Silicon Prairie News app today

    Meet Silicon Prairie News, the app. Thanks to our friends at Ninth Division, a three-year-old mobile product development company, SPN is now available in the iTunes app store and is coming soon to the Android Market. The app features a homepage with the latest article and next event in the Silicon Prairie, a feed of…

  • Prairie Moves: Todd Razor, Becky Mollenkamp, Kickanotch and more

    Thinc Iowa preparations have me occupied during the week so I’m finding time to catch up on content on Saturdays and Sundays. Enjoy this fresh off the press Prairie Moves (links gathered through today) that’s just a few days later than its usual Thursday appearance. Also, if you’d like to see what we’ve been up…

  • Innovation Expo to highlight and help Prairie entrepreneurs

    In less than a month, Sioux Falls will be the gathering spot for the eighth annual Innovation Expo, taking place Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center. The Expo, which is hosted by Enterprise Institute, a non-profit that provides business development and services to individuals and startup companies, brings together inventors, researchers…

  • Prairie Moves: Dave Medema, Erik Antonson, Charise Flynn and more

    Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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…

  • Big Omaha – Ninth Division delivers with third rendition of iOs apps

    An ill-timed bout with illness couldn’t stop the Omaha-based team from Ninth Division from delivering the Big Omaha iPhone and iPad apps this year. And if Ninth Division’s Andy Peters and Hasani Hunter they have their way, not much should stop them from continuing to churn out Big Omaha apps for the foreseeable future. “We…

  • Graphic.ly draws in Ninth Division – ‘Extension of current dev team’

    In late January we reported on a local connection to the $3 million funding round of Boulder, Colorado-based Graphic.ly (left, icon of their iPad app). Omaha-based Dundee Venture Capital participated in that round and we grabbed an interview with Dundee’s founder Mark Hasebroock the day the story broke. With this story, we’re a good week…

  • Prairie Moves: David Kerber, Matthew Helt, Jim Esch & more

    (Photo by Maerzbow via Flickr.) Published every Tuesday, 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…

  • BarCamp Omaha 2010 Opening Party photos

    BarCamp Omaha opened things up last night with a party at the same venue the un-conference is being held at today, Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street) in Omaha’s Old Market district. Local mobile app developer Andy Peters, co-founder of Ninth Division, doubled as a professional photographer last night and took some great party shots. Below…

  • Q&A with Beer && Code creator Andy Peters

    There’s a new meetup happening in Omaha these days, it’s called Beer && Code. “So I accidentally started an event called: Beer && Code,” wrote organizer Andy Peters on his company’s blog, Ninth Division. “I was bored earlier at Scooters and didn’t want to go home. So I figure, I like a tasty beer, needed…