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  • Dwolla to hold Des Moines hackathon Dec. 1-2, EE-I-EE-I-O!

    Sillicon Prairie News is teaming up with Dwolla to help the Des Moines-based payments startup hold its first hackathon in The Prairie. Titled Old MacDonald Hackathon …

  • Iowans advocate for change at inaugural Internet Uncaucus (Video)

    A group of citizens braved chilly October weather on Saturday to meet on the Locust Street bridge in downtown Des Moines for the Iowa Internet Uncaucus, a part of the nine-city Internet 2012 Bus Tour created by reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and general manager Erik Martin. Participants viewed 13 soapbox presentations by members of the…

  • Watch the Iowa Internet Uncaucus live tonight until 9

    reddit’s Internet 2012 Bus Tour, an effort to promote the Open Internet with a campaign-style road trip through the heart of the country, continues its surge across the Silicon Prairie tonight with a stop in Des Moines for the inaugural Iowa Internet Uncaucus. Tonight’s event, billed as “a caucus just for us” featuring “bipartisan ideas,…

  • Dwolla launches reddit Donate to drive charitable donations

    Dwolla today announced a new initiative to drive donations to charitable causes from users of social news site reddit. reddit Donate allows the moderators of reddit’s category …

  • Post-Ecommerce Hack Day, a look at how Dwolla’s building in NYC

    Online payments startup Dwolla deemed the Ecommerce Hack Day it hosted with Etsy Aug. 4-5 in New York “a run-away success.” And by most measures — the first-time hack weekend drew 223 participants, produced 37 hacks and featured some $20,000 in cash and prizes — the weekend was precisely as advertised. But one important —…

  • Watch Dwolla and Chirpify founders, Fed VP talk at KCnext event (Video)

    To complement our previous coverage of GO – The Future of Mobile Payments, we present video from the event, which was hosted July 9 in Kansas City, Mo. by KCnext- The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City. At the event, Chirpify founder and CEO Chris Teso, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City senior vice president…

  • Panelists focus on simplicity, security in meeting of mobile payments minds

    The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is on the verge of its 100th year of operation, having first opened its doors for business in 1914. Chirpify, by contrast, checks in well shy of the century mark. The Portland-based Twitter commerce platform launched just four months ago. But on Monday at the Kauffman Center for…

  • Revisiting the question of who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines

    Last December, I wrote a post asking “Who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines?” In that post, I shared the results of an informal (and unscientific) poll that I conducted around the community to seek out which companies were the “top startups.” While Dwolla was a unanimous selection at No. 1, there was no…

  • Startups strut stuff in first-year showcase at 80/35 Music Festival

    The inaugural year of Start-Up Central at 80/35 was modest — a single tent, promising information and a bit of shade on a sweltering day — but festival officials and startup founders alike see potential to build on the relationship between technology and music. “We actually share quite a bit in that we need to…

  • Watch ‘The Future of Mobile Payments’ at 2 p.m. (Live Stream)

    Tune in at 2 p.m. for the live stream of KCnext’s “Future of Mobile Payments” event, showcasing the CEOs of startups Dwolla and Chirpify along with a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The event begins with individual presentations, and around 3 p.m., journalist Ben Paynter will join the speakers…