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Morning Business Headlines: 11-13-15

  Smarter robots put 50 percent of jobs at risk – British bank warns CNN Money: The Bank of England has warned that machines could take over 80 million American and 15 million British jobs…
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Merck to buy Ames-based Harrisvaccines

Merck & Co. Inc.’s animal health unit will buy Ames-based privately held Harrisvaccines Inc. to expand its portfolio of animal vaccines as the U.S. livestock industry seeks new defenses against diseases, Reuters reported.


The companies did…
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Events drawing visitors to Greater Des Moines, week of Nov. 16

Company Lead Name Arrival Date Departure Date Attendance Meeting Venue City Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities 21st Annual Water & Wastewater Operators Training Workshop 11/17/2015 11/19/2015 250 Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites – Des Moines…
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Immigrant investment program could live on for four more years

Congressional debate is heating up on the EB-5 immigration program, which allows foreigners who invest in job-creating projects to get green cards. The YMCA of Greater Des Moines hopes to tap the program for an …

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Farm group finds high nitrate in Raccoon River

Tests by the farm industry group Agriculture’s Clean Water Alliance found that more than half of the 45 monitoring sites on the Raccoon River had the highest nitrate level of the past decade. The Boone …

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ISU students win national cybersecurity competition

Iowa State University students won a cybersecurity competition and $25,000 for their work on solving a hypothetical security breach. The students were asked to figure out, in five hours, if a series of attacks were …

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Dunkin’ Donuts gets love after Starbucks cup controversy

Dunkin’ Donuts is getting some social media love as a result of the recent Starbucks holiday cup controversy. Last week, Dunkin’ Donuts did what it always does this time of year — it started using…
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U.S. house prices up in third quarter but affordability slipped

Home prices climbed in 87 percent of U.S. metropolitan areas in the third quarter, with gains nationwide slowing to a healthier pace, according to the National Association of Realtors, Bloomberg reported.   The median price of…
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ISU engineers test concrete wind turbine towers

Iowa State University engineers are testing concrete wind turbine towers that could be much taller than the steel variety, thus improving power production.


They applied 100,000 pounds of force with a motorized device every 1.25…
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Code retreat planned at Gravitate

Gravitate will host a local gathering as part of the Global Day of Coderetreat, a daylong intensive practice event centered on the basics of software development and design. The Gravitate event runs 8:30 a.m to …