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The Kansas City Startup Village permit issue: explained
Two weeks ago, a small army of Kansas City entrepreneurs descended on the Planning Commission meeting in Kansas City, Kansas. Here’s why. Entrepreneurs are not known for their patience, and a room full of them listening through appeals on sign location was a strange sight. Their sudden interest in the zoning laws, however, was the…
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Mozilla awards grants to projects that harness Gigabit power for education
Mozilla announced grants ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 to eight educational pilot projects in Kansas City and Chattanooga, Tenn., that are taking advantage of the cities’ gigabit Internet speeds …
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How Kansas City scored the biggest technological coup of the century
There was no phone call. No congratulations. No dramatic reveal. It was winter of early 2011. Former Kansas City, Kan., Mayor Joe Reardon remembers a long, exhausting day of negotiations. At the end, there was nothing left to negotiate. All of Google’s questions were answered and their requests were met. And that was it…
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Google announces plans to explore Fiber in nine new metro areas
Google announced today via its official blog that over the next few months it will begin work with nine metro areas—34 cities in total—across the country to determine what it would take to connect them with Google Fiber…
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KC Startup Crawl returns for round two June 28, hopes to double scope
Round two of the KC Startup Crawl, the sequel to February’s inaugural showcase of area startups, is ready to ring in again June 28 from 4-9 p.m. at about a dozen stops along a shuttled route during 1Week KC. Volunteer organizer Carrie Royce wants to double the scope from last time, which highlighted about 50…
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Cedar Falls residents can join Iowa’s first gigabit network for $275/month
Cedar Falls today becomes the first city in Iowa to make the national shortlist of “gigabit cities”—locations where gigabit Internet service …
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SF group visits KC Startup Village, Fiber Space to “see the local flavor”
The distance between Kansas City and the coasts got a little shorter this week. San Francisco venture capitalists, investors, entrepreneurs and a national tech writer spent 24 hours in Kansas City on Tuesday and Wednesday, absorbing the startup climate and putting Google Fiber through its paces. Silicon Prairie News community builders Regan Carrizales and Jeff…
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Local provider reveals plan for gigabit internet in Lawrence, Kan.
It’s open season for gigabit internet in the Kansas City region. Lawrence, Kan.-based Wicked Broadband on Tuesday announced plans to install fiber service in a test neighborhood with the highest percentage of pre-registrations, similar to Google Fiber’s model in Kansas City. …
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KC tech advocates weigh in on Austin’s addition to the Fiber family
Kansas City and Austin, Texas, became Google Fiber siblings Tuesday with the announcement that the internet giant would take its ultrafast connectivity south in the middle of next year. Just as was the case when Kansas City heard the news in 2011, the big-picture impact is foggy. Will the unique relationship with Austin build a…