What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit an item for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Read

"Sprint App of the Week -- Leap2" - Leap2 earned some Sprint love last week when the company's community forum named it the App of the Week.

Quotable

"Some traits I believe show in most entrepreneurs are tenacity without excessive ego, a true interest in what the customer really wants to achieve, and a healthy respect for what they do not know." - Mike Colwell of Busines Innovation Zone shares his three telltale traits of someone who is meant to be an entrepreneur. - StartupCity Des Moines blog

New Tech

• Hudl released Mercury for Mac, which allows users to upload video from their Mac computer and publish it to their Hudl Library - Hudl blog

Product & Business Updates

• Torsion Mobile released Mojaba, version 1.6. - Torsion Mobile blog
• LockPath plans to hire 20, expand offices - Kansas City Business Journal

Mentions

• The Big Plate - Come Hungry, Leave Full of Ideas - Nebraska Entrepreneur

Gig Bits

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

• Google to reveal Fiber in Kansas City details on July 26th - Techmeme via The Verge

Recognition

• Leap2 was recognized as the Sprint app of the week - Sprint Community blog
• Icon Labs founder named finalist for top innovator list - Des Moines Register

Blogged

• Product launch teaser… - Layeredi
• ActiveGrade 101 (Video) - ActiveGrade
• Meet the Mentor: Mike Colwell - StartupCity Des Moines
• Lincoln Startup Weekend tickets went on sale - eventbrite.com
• In-depth with the Think Big i-Team: Nick Rossin - Think Big Kansas City

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