Archive for August 2010
Lightedge Solutions again one of 5,000 top companies
Des Moines-based Lightedge Solutions Inc. is listed on Inc. magazine’s list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. This is the fourth consecutive year the company has made the Inc. 5000, which ranks companies by revenue growth. …
Read MoreDeWaay among top financial advisers, magazine says
Barron’s magazine has ranked DeWaay Capital Management among the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors for the second consecutive year, according to the list released by Barron’s on Saturday. The Clive-based wealth management firm was ranked …
Read MoreIowa film office grants tax credits
Two films, “Sam Steele & the Junior Detective Agency” and “Ash,” have received tax credits through the Iowa Film, Television and Video Promotion Program. These are the first two films that have successfully been awarded …
Read MoreBusiness economists say focus on growth, not deficits
Policy makers should focus on promoting economic growth and job creation rather than deficit reduction, a majority of respondents said in a survey by the National Association for Business Economics released Sunday. Three-quarters of respondents …
Read MoreGoogle picks up more pieces
Google Inc. has acquired Angstro, a start-up that sorts news and information across social networks like Facebook, a Google spokesman said. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Angstro has developed applications to find photos on Facebook, combine Caller …
Read MoreThe ultimate swat team
We live in a vast, complicated ecosystem, a fragile structure with interactions that exceed our poor ability to comprehend. But I would vote for getting rid of all the mosquitoes.
Surely the animal world could …
Read MoreCasey’s suitor reports record earnings
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the Canadian company that is in the midst of a hostile takeover bid for Casey’s General Stores Inc., announced record net income for the first quarter of its fiscal year.
Couche-Tard said …
Read MoreDraw to Des Moines goes beyond job market
In his ground-breaking novel, Jack Kerouac wrote, “The prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.”
But what Kerouac didn’t address in his 1957 countercultural classic, “On the Road,” was how that assertion relates …
Read MoreForget about GM stock; take a look into Intuitive
Dear Mr. Berko:
Please give me your thoughts on buying GM when it goes public. When will that happen and at what price? There seems to be a lot of demand for the new shares, …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Will Schroeder
What led you to this role with Kemin?
I got my Ph.D. because I enjoy doing research and that environment. (Ten years after launching Blue Sky Creamery), it got to the point where the technology …
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