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Reminder - Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in one of our recent Prairie Moves.

What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com.

Acquisitions

• Lucky Monkey (Johnson County), a daily deal site, was acquired by CrowdSavings (Tampa, Fla.) - bizjournals.com/kansascity - SPN post
• DataVision Resources (Des Moines), a provider of data and business solutions to the mortgage, insurance and financial services industries was acquired by Equifax Inc. (Atlanta) - Press release

Career Moves

• Gina Kovanda and Kyle King joined Nebraska Global (Lincoln) as Interaction Designers

New Creative

• Archrival (Lincoln) launched the Art of the Flight website (HTML5) for Red Bull - artofflightmovie.com
• SKAR (Omaha) created a site for Sue Bee honey - trustthetaste.com

Product/Business Development

• Green Bein' Productions (Lincoln) launched a website for its core brand - greenbeins.com
• Hudl (Lincoln) made a number of updates, including resizable library and undo in video editor - hudl.com/blog
• Tripleseat (Omaha office, Boston-based) made a number of updates, including notes for its calendar, saving reports and better financial reports - tripleseat.com/blog - and released and embedable lead form - tripleseat.com/blog

Media Mentions

• Uppward (Des Moines) - The Next Web: "Beyond location: 7 more things you can 'check in' to"
• Battle Bears of SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) - MacWorld: "Comic-Con: Attack of the iOS games"
• Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Francisco-based) - NY Convergence: "NY Tech Meetup: Flying Objects, Barking Dogs and the Mayor’s Tech Goal (#NYTM)", Business Insider: "10 Hollywood Stars And Athletes Who Are Pouring Cash Into Startups"
• SmartyPig (Des Moines) - CBSNews.com: "Celebrate Congress' debt compromise by lowering your own"
• Casesmpl (Des Moines) - iPadBags.com: "Smart and Clean: Case Simple's Leatherette iPad Folio Case"
• Lucky Bucket Brewery (La Vista, Nebraska) - Omaha World-Herald: "La Vista brewery expanding in leaps and bounds"

Misc.

• Tractor Feed (Nebraska), a family of geeks focused on making our state a better place through the use of technology and raising a new generation of competitive, tech-savvy Nebraskans, launched its web presence - tractorfeed.org
• Build Midwest, a website/organization aiming to help bring together creatives, developers, entrepreneurs and startups in the Midwest, launched its web presence - buildmidwest.com