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  • Prairie Moves: Sojern, Zac Triemert, James Eliason & more

    Photo by Frapestaartje via Flickr Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps you 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…

  • Sojern announces additional $9M in venture capital funding

    Omaha-based travel advertising company Sojern announced today that they have secured an additional $9 million in venture capital from Focus Ventures, Trident Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. This new round of funding brings the total amount raised to $28.3 million…

  • Prairie Moves: GCommerce, 80/35, Eliason Media & Sojern

    (Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…

  • Prairie Moves: The World Tri, Proxibid, Medizzle and more

    (Photo by hennasabel via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…

  • Operations Lead, Software Engineers & .NET Web Developer

    We’re excited to bring you our twenty-first Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Pongr in Des Moines, Far Reach Technologies in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Sojern in Omaha, and…

  • Launching a top ten iPhone app: Gordon Whitten on Airport Remote

    (This is a guest post by Gordon Whitten, founder and CEO of Sojern, Inc.) Lights are dim and shades drawn in the dev area at Sojern. Did’ja set up the release build config yet? Yep. Doing that now. Installing the provisioning profile… OK. Build and run… A few keystrokes, and there it is. Bright crystal…

  • Sojern releases fourth iPhone app, Airport Remote

    Late last week, Omaha-based startup Sojern, an online and printed advertising platform reaching airline travelers, released its fourth iPhone app, Airport Remote. The $3.99 app allows you to view departure and arrival information for flights at airports across the country. If you’ve ever found yourself looking for the bank of screens in the airport to…

  • SPN interviews Gordon Whitten of Sojern

    Earlier this week, I took the opportunity to sit down and talk with someone that I was personally thrilled to interview: Gordon Whitten, CEO of Sojern, Inc. Gordon is something of a serial entrepreneur. Originally from central Nebraska, he started founding companies when he was young and has continued to do so throughout his life,…

  • Stocking stuffers: iPhone apps from the Prairie

    We recently put out a call for you to send us your suggestions for iPhone apps built on the Prairie, thinking that they would make great stocking stuffers. We couldn’t help it. Danny was inspired. Submissions started rolling in immediately. Some were old favorites. Many were brand new surprises. Now, Christmas is almost upon us,…

  • New Omaha company Sojern gives airlines new way to make money

    Check out this amazing new company out of Omaha… Flying to New York? How about making a reservation at your favorite restaurant before you print your boarding pass? Sojern Inc., a new company that has struck a deal with Northwest Airlines and five other major carriers, will sell ads synced to travelers’ itineraries. (Two Palo…