Prairie Moves: Deal Garden, Michael Gelphman, Sara Davidson and more
September 13, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Photo by Glen via Flickr
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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Career Moves
- Rachel Hack, formerly the president of the Software and Information Technology Association of Kansas, had joined Google as Kansas City Fiber Community Manager - Kansas City Business Journal, Kansas City Star and SPN Post
New Tech
- Far Reach Technologies (Cedar Falls, Iowa) partnered with Joe Rouw and Nadira Shadeed to form a new company, Nu Squared, developing web-based records software for vision therapy professionals - nusquared.com and farreachinc.com
Product/Business Development
- Proxibid (Omaha) completed its largest product upgarde in its 10-year history - businesswire.com and SPN Post - and it launched a new promotional page - fresh.proxibid.com
- Deal Garden (Omaha) launched in Rochester on September 8, led by Nate Nordstrom; and will launch in Cedar Valley (Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Waverly) on September 15, led by Mitch Treu - dealgarden.com
- GiqueGEAR (Altoona, Iowa) announced the WildCard, an accessory the size of a credit card that folds out to provide a solid, non-slip stand for a user's smartphone - giquegear.com
Media Mentions
- Sam Schill of Shoplr (Ames, Iowa), Sara Davidson of Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office) and Jake Kerber of Locusic (Des Moines, Iowa) - Iowa State Daily: "Anotomy of a startup"
- Shoplr (Ames, Iowa) - Ames News Online: "Ames residents offer mobile marketing tool to area businesses"
- Zaarly (San Francisco-based, Kansas City office) - Silicon Valley Mercury New: "New apps help people make money with their phones" and Penn Olsen: "Wishscope: A Social Wishlist from Japan"
- Social Media Club of Kansas City - Kansas City Business Journal: "Social Media Club of Kansas City works to build Google road map"
- Michael Gelphman of Kansas City IT Professionals - Go To Market Show: "Kansas City's Technical Solution"
Misc.
- Twitter (San Francisco) has moved to sue Twittad (Des Moines) in an attempt to cancel the Twittad's registration of the "Let Your Ad Meet Tweets" trademark - techcrunch.com
- Ross Beottcher of the Omaha World-Herald shed light on the latest patent legislation - "Poised for patent change" and "Shifting from eureka moment"
- Jake Kerber of Locusic (Des Moines) gave a company update on the Locusic blog - "Locusic is 6 Months Old"
- Nebraska Global (Lincoln, Neb.) was awarded the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce's Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
- BarCamp Omaha photobooth photos were posted by Justin Limoges Photography in a video - "Barcamp Omaha • 2011"
- TEDxIowaCity announced speakers - tedxiowacity.org
- Google executive Brian McClendon surprises KU engineering students with tablet computers - ljworld.com