Kansas City The race to bring driverless vehicles to roads near you is heating up, but Tim Sylvester thinks he has found an answer within the road itself. His Kansas City-based Integrated Roadways creates pre-cast sections of road layered with sensors that measure stress and ice conditions… read more

Iowa City Health Tech Hatch was selected as one of 48 innovators and accelerators that will participate in TheHive@TEDMED 2013. The new program, which is being held in association with the Startup Health Network, is an opportunity for participants to collaborate … read more

Omaha Omaha design firm Oxide Design Co. is participating in the Knight Foundation News Challenge on open government, a national effort to support innovative projects to help citizens and governments interact more effectively. The group's submission to the challenge is Anywhere … read more

Five students from Spalding Catholic High School in Granville, Iowa, were chosen to participate in the Verizon Innovative App Challenge to produce the farming application they designed called AgNote MAX. The students will work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's media … read more

Columbia Thousands of NCAA tourney brackets may already be busted, and with them, dreams of office supremacy. But for Matt Fischer, the madness is a prime opportunity for SportsFormulator.com to gain credibility. He quit his job last year to launch the Columbia, Mo., startup, which provides … read more

Columbia The South by Southwest follow-up story for Newsy was just as worthwhile as the first. The Columbia, Mo. startup last week garnered the award for Best iPad Publishing at the MediaPost Appy Awards, where it won the News category in 2011. The company's free video news app … read more

New York City Financial and business news website The Street on Tuesday named Des Moines, Kansas City and Omaha as three of its six recommended cities to start a business in the U.S. Updated from the original article in August—adding three cities, including Des Moines—it suggests that it's … read more

West Des Moines Ecommerce startup Goodsmiths today introduced paid plans. When the "marketplace for makers" launched last April, co-founder Levi Rosol said one of the site's advantages over its better-known competitor, Etsy, was its pricing structure—it didn't charge a listing fee and it took … read more