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What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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.
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Fundings
- Zave Networks (Kansas City) raised $10.6 million according to its SEC Form D filing – SPN Post
New Tech
- Brett Atlas and Scott Kroger (both of Omaha) launched RestingSpot – SPN post
- What Cheer (Omaha) released Number Laundry, a “tiny API that accepts phone numbers and returns helpful information as json” – numberlaundry.whatcheer.com
New Creative
- T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, Iowa) launched a new site for Modern Woodmen Bank – finance.yahoo.com
Media Mentions
- Nathan Wright of Lava Row (Des Moines) – Des Moines Register: “Be Better at Everything: How to use Google+“
- MindMixer (Omaha) – Government Technology: Should Government Crowdsourcing Websites be Developed In-House?
- Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Francisco-based) – NYU Tech Meetup: “August 2 NY Tech Meetup Zaarly Q & A (NYC)“
- SmartyPig (Des Moines) – GeekSugar: “Free Websites to Track Your Finances“
Misc.
- T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, Iowa) was included in a Finovate Fall preview – finovate.com
- Pongr (Des Moines office, Boston-based) published an infographic breaking down ImagePulse mobile photo uploads – blog.pongr.com
- Video of Google Fiber session at the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce 2011 Innovation Conference was published – brainzooming.com
- Drew Davies of Oxide Design (Omaha) served as a panelist on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s “Design Counts in Elections” roundtable – news.oxide.com
- Jim Swanson of Performance Marketing (Des Moines) earned the creative director/partner top marks from Vistaprint, an international provider of business cards, brochures, postcards, invitations, note pads and other printed material – performancemarketing.com/blog
- Grasshorse Studio (Winfield, Iowa) started a blog series interviewing their interns, first up, a graphic design intern – grasshorse.wordpress.com