Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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…

What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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.

Fundings

  • T8 Webware (Cedar Falls) was awarded $45,000 in direct assistance from the Iowa Economic Development Authority – Press Release
  • MeNetwork (Boulder, Colo.) closed an angel round of about $500k from Omaha investors – SPN

New Tech

New Creative

  • QA Graphics (Ankeny, Iowa) created an interactive nutritional kiosk for Jonathan Chan, owner and operator of a McDonald’s franchise in Richardson, Texas – Press Release

Product/Business Development and Milestones

  • Locusic (Des Moines) rolled out several new updates, including song counts and the ability to block explicit music – Locusic blog 
  • Hatchlings (Panora, Iowa) closed its Hatchlings 2 third beta which had 964 premium members collect 7.7 million eggs, and launched its fourth beta – @BradDwyer

Mentions

Gig Bits

Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.

Blogged

Misc.


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This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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One response to “Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more”

  1. Keven Marcho Avatar

    Great post, thanks for sharing.