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Archrival campaign for Mike’s Smashed Apple Ale passes 1M views
LINCOLN—Leave it to Lincoln-based youth marketing firm Archrival to get an inflatable hot dog, ridiculous mustaches, monster trucks and stallions into a commercial for hard apple cider.
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The Greater Omaha Chamber has its new entrepreneurial director
OMAHA—Kody Schrader knows community. Growing up in Alma, Neb., a town of 1,100 along the Nebraska-Kansas border, Schrader knew everyone. And he still knows the importance of connections.
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PeggyBank merges with California company, operations will move
OMAHA— PeggyBank, an Omaha-based company that digitizes and uploads old printed photos, slides and VCR tapes to the cloud, has merged with ScanDigital.com, a similar outfit in California…
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Omaha Code School recruiting employers to meet students at job fair
Omaha Code School is looking for employers to meet with its students during a job fair Oct. 3. Instructor Sumeet Jain said he wants quality employers to come to the job fair to take a look at the developer students with an aim of getting them hired.
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Hello Holiday to hold open house at new Wareham Building office
OMAHA—Hello Holiday has moved into the Wareham Building, home of Straight Shot accelerator and Interface Web School, and is hosting an open house Tuesday to show off the new digs.
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Omaha-based auction site Proxibid celebrates its 100 millionth bid
Proxibid, an online marketplace for buying and selling highly-valued items, has celebrated its 100 millionth bid since it was established in Omaha in 2001. The 100 millionth bid was placed on Sept. 12 at 1:32 p.m. by Roy Rhoden, a long-time Proxibid buyer, during Deanco Auction Company’s Public Equipment Auction.
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Nominations for AIM tech awards due Friday
AIM, a Nebraska nonprofit dedicated to furthering tech, is seeking nominations for its Tech Celebration awards in six categories: tech student, tech educator, tech innovator, tech leader, exemplary emerging business and exemplary enterprise business.
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Hudl acquisition of Ubersense is its fourth, second in two months
Hudl has made its fourth acquisition purchasing Ubersense, a Boston company specializing in interactive video analysis and instruction. Ubersense was founded in 2011 with the vision to put world-class coaching in everyone’s hands. More than 2.5 million users have installed the Ubersense app for iOS, gaining access to video analysis tools, such as slow-motion review,…
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Community support on display at Straight Shot acclerator’s demo day
OMAHA—Mark Michuda needed a T-shirt with his Call on the Go logo on it. And he needed it in less than five days, just in time for the Straight Shot demo day Wednesday night. A seemingly minor task, yes, but a big one for an out-of-towner. He posted to the Startup Nebraska Facebook group on…
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Weekly Wrap Up
Every Friday, we’ll be linking to the previous week’s news that pertains to “SPNers” and listing the upcoming week’s events that pique our interest. News of Last Week 3/27 – NE Creative: MixTape.me, latest project by What Cheer 3/30 – OWH: Movers: Venture based on music buzz, Jimmy Winter of Music Arsenal 3/30 – Life…