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Rep. Terry wants Omaha students to design app for software dev challenge
A local politician hopes involvement in a nationwide app challenge will get Omaha high schoolers’ creative juices and spur an interest in coding. Congressman Lee Terry of Omaha recently announced the 2014 House of Representatives Student App Challenge, a contest designed to spark interest in STEM careers among American high school students…
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Yahoo! co-founder, Nebraska Governor cut ribbon on data center
On Wednesday, Yahoo! opened its new 180,000-square-foot data center in LaVista, located just south of Omaha. Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang was on hand for the celebration. In 1994, Yang, along with his business partner David Filo, founded Yahoo! while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The Nebraska data center is servicing Internet traffic around…