Omaha On Sunday, What Cheer launched its first product, Bumble, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) app designed for children to make safe and easy calls. Alex Gates, a developer at the web design studio, had been working on a way for his young children to make calls to their grandparents using a simple web interface, something so simple it would soon be seen as home's "regular phone." With the July 26 … read more

Lincoln One year ago, former University of Nebraska-Lincoln football teammates and college roommates … read more

Omaha So we're sort of suckers for sweet infographics like this. But, come on, can you really blame us? I mean, just look at it. This gem, courtesy of the team at MindMixer, shows the "state of the cities' ideas" for the month of July. In other words, in this illustration, MindMixer, an Omaha-based company that creates virtual town hall websites, captured all the ideas … read more

Overland Park One of Kansas City's first players in daily deals websites is getting out of the game. As The Kansas City Business Journal reported on Tuesday, Lucky Monkey … read more

Hudson It’s pretty safe to say that Cohesive Creative and Code is “movin' on up” à la The Jeffersons, although the move in this case is to the south rather than to the east side. Cohesive's new space is actually the former home of a Cedar Valley bank branch in Hudson, Iowa. For a sweet take on the company's move, check out this tribute to “The Office” they put together with Hudson playing the role of Scranton, Pa. Pay special attention to their new beer delivery service — gotta love the special perks … read more

Omaha SkyVu Entertainment went to Comic-Con International July 21-24 in San Diego and came back empty-handed. Well, empty-handed in a literal sense, anyway. "We introduced our first Battle Bears toy, two new T-shirts, an exclusive comic book," SkyVu founder Ben Vu said in an email, "and we sold out of everything." But that the team from the Omaha-based animation studio couldn't seem to hang on to any of its merchandise while in San … read more

Cedar Rapids When the Consumer Electronics Association held its CES On the Hill trade show in Washington, D.C. in May, Syncbak founder and CEO Jack Perry attended in hopes of spreading the word about his Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based startup. He ended up doing so to a national television audience via C-SPAN. Syncbak, which provides a platform for broadcasting live, local television on web-enabled devices … read more

Omaha We're in the process of rolling out a few updates to our site in the coming weeks, the first of which you'll see live today, Facebook comments. Going forward, in order to comment on Silicon Prairie News, you'll need to connect to your Facebook account, and when you … read more