Kansas City The women won, in a way, at the Hack of the Sexes hackathon last Friday and Saturday. But it was much more about the two sexes coming together to create tech solutions for civic problems. Kelly Tomlinson, a web designer at Cremalab, led the grand-prize winning team … read more

Kansas City This may be common knowledge by now, but Kansas City digital advertising company Adknowledge two weeks ago acquired San Francisco-based SocialWeekend Labs, which operates a portfolio of Facebook and mobile apps and has tools that aim to help app developers … read more

Kansas City The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced a $500,000 grant to William Jewell College, a liberal arts school in Liberty, Mo., to enhance the school's entrepreneurial culture on campus. It will be distributed over a three-year period to develop a "sustainable environment … read more

Lincoln State-funded venture capital organization Invest Nebraska recently announced it put an undisclosed amount into Lincoln, Neb.-based Pro-Fit Performance Club Fitting, a company constructing a club-fitting software system. "Pro-Fit has been able to effectively deliver an entirely … read more

San Francisco School of education assistant professor Amy Carter Hutchinson is among 37 Iowa State University researchers headed to San Francisco for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The meeting, which will be held April 27-May 1, will help … read more

Altoona Rumors earlier this year pinned multiple tech giants, including Apple, for a possible $1 billion data center project in Altoona, Iowa. But this evening, the Des Moines Register's Donnelle Eller reported sources have said Facebook is behind the project, which could cost $1.5 billion … read more

Lincoln On the Startup America blog earlier this month, Nebraska Global managing principal Steve Kiene said Startup Nebraska has "taken a very different approach to impacting (its) startup ecosystem" in comparison to other states. Kiene, one of four Startup Nebraska champions … read more

Kansas City The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's annual Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, released Wednesday, shows overall business creation slowed in 2012. As the unemployment rate dropped, so did the number of new business owners. The rate fell from 0.32 percent of American adults … read more