June 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Less than a week after its national rollout on May 19, Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. "Full disclosure," Arrington said at the end of the May 23 interview, "I asked you if I could invest and we're trying to work something out there. So … read more
June 13, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Lincoln The second of Nebraska Global's spin-offs released its first product earlier this month in hopes of capitalizing on the "momentum and potential" of the program it enhances. ICORA, an internet software vendor that operates under the umbrella of Lincoln-based venture capital fund Nebraska Global, on June 1 announced the general release … read more
June 10, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Omaha's shot at becoming one of Code for America's 2012 city partners ended on Wednesday, when the organization announced 10 finalists for next year's project and Omaha was not … read more
June 10, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Soon after we published our Curbwise story yesterday, which covered the site launched by the Omaha World-Herald utilizing data from the Douglas County Assessor's Office, I personally tweeted a challenge … read more
June 9, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha At the end of May, the Omaha World-Herald introduced the Omaha metro, specifically Douglas County, to Curbwise, a site said to help users understand property valuations. As June marks the start of tax valuation season, this site has refined public data and Census information from the Douglas County Assessor office and created a new way for metro property owners to understand the metrics … read more
June 7, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines With late May seeing an upgrade from Square and a new product rollout from Google, some folks on the the Silicon Prairie may have been wondering if Des Moines-based Dwolla had something up its sleeve, as well. Was May going to be the month of mobile payments announcements? Dwolla did indeed have something up its sleeve. But unlike Square and Google, which seem likely to butt heads in the coming years, Dwolla has its sights set on playing nicely … read more
June 6, 2011 by Geoff Wood
West Des Moines SmartyPig, the West Des Moines-based online social savings company that bills itself as a "free online piggy bank," was … read more
June 3, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha When I reached out to Nick Bowden for a phone interview Thursday morning, the MindMixer co-founder and CEO was happy to oblige. But it soon became clear that Bowden's a busy man. "Nathan (Preheim, MindMixer's co-founder and COO) and I are at a conference in Madison (Wis.) this whole week presenting the concept and showing people that it's out … read more
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