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  • CenturyLink to make Omaha the latest gigabit city on Monday

    CenturyLink today announced it will begin offering gigabit Internet on Monday to parts of west Omaha. With the installation—the company said 48,000 customers will have access to the new speeds by October—Omaha will become one of less than a dozen U.S. cities to offer the high-speed network, according to the Omaha World-Herald. “We’re trying to create…

  • Kauffman’s annual index shows drop in entrepreneurial activity

    The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s annual Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, released Wednesday, shows overall business creation slowed in 2012. As the unemployment rate dropped, so did the number of new business owners. The rate fell from 0.32 percent of American adults …

  • 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. …

  • Brian Hemesath, Kellie Markey leave Tikly leadership roles

    Two-year-old online ticketing service Tikly has lost its chief technology officer and chief marketing officer, the Des Moines Register reported today. Brian Hemesath, who developed the current version of the site, left Tikly to focus on VolunteerLocal, another tech company in which he has …

  • KCPT to debut “Startups, Made in Kansas City” Thursday

    Kansas City Public Television continues to shine a light on startups. Following coverage of entrepreneurs and the growing startup community on “The Local Show” in February, the station is set to debut a new series Thursday: “Startups, Made in Kansas City.” Startups, small businesses …

  • Kansas City developer a finalist in Windows Phone Next App Star

    If your March Madness bracket has already let you down, consider shifting your focus to omgTANGRAM, a game created by independent Kansas City developer Nathan Walker that is competing in a different sort of bracket. From more than 9,000 entries …

  • Goodsmiths rolls out paid plans, promoted items

    Ecommerce startup Goodsmiths today introduced paid plans. When the “marketplace for makers” launched last April, co-founder Levi Rosol said one of the site’s advantages over its better-known competitor, Etsy, was its pricing structure—it didn’t charge a listing fee and it took …