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Dwolla Grid in the wild
Since Dwolla’s June 7 release of Grid, a feature described as a Facebook connect for its payments network, we’ve been anticipating a sighting in the wild. Earlier this week, Dwolla published a blog post highlighting what Dwolla CEO Ben Milne said is the “first full implementation (alive and in production)” of Grid. The company that’s…
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Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase…
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Prairie Moves: Bryan McCarty, Canvis, God at Play and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursday, 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…
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Prairie Moves: Thursday edition, Nate Custard, Scriptito and more
With the help of the “Xzibit Yo Dawg” meme, welcome to the Thursday edition of Prairie Moves, just like Tuesday but published on Thursday. There’s an increase of startups, projects, people, events and overall activity in the Silicon Prairie that we’ve decided to move this series to twice a week (a small sign the region’s…
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As Bitcoin exchanges drop Dwolla, Milne says company stays focused
As of Tuesday, Bitcoin exchange platform TradeHill is no longer accepting Dwolla, citing the occurrence of chargebacks as the reason for its decision. Since TradeHill’s launch in early June, it had been accepting Dwolla as a way for its users to fund their accounts in order to purchase Bitcoins, a virtual, peer-to-peer currency, on its…
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Prairie Moves: Bryan Roth, Kaylin Brabec, Electric Pulp and more
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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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Dwolla now processing $1M per day, Milne hints at what’s next (Video)
Five weeks ago, Dwolla announced a momentous milestone: $1 million a week in transactions. Today, the peer-to-peer payments network is at it again, announcing in a blog post that they’ve hit $1 million a day. Visually plotting this growth for the fist time, they’ve posted the above infographic, showing the use of their network since…
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Business Record takes close look at Des Moines startup scene
Our friends at the Business Record ran several stories in their most recent issue highlighting the startup community in Des Moines, and like we did with Lynn Hicks’ article in the Des Moines Register last week, we wanted to make sure our audience saw them as well. In the first article, writer Kyle Oppenhuizen interviews…
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Prairie Moves: Josh Cramer, Marcus Ross, Randomnade and more
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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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