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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 …

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Month-to-month house sales grew in Greater Des Moines, but pace slowed

The Des Moines Area Association of Realtors said 1,034 houses sold last month in Greater Des Moines, up from 1,032 in September and 1,021 in October 2014. Contracts to buy a house rose to 1,023 …

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Mercy Medical Center expansion to take out apartments

Mercy Medical Center plans to demolish the Mercy Park apartment complex at its Des Moines hospital campus to make room for more inpatient facilities, DesMoinesRegister.com reported.  More than 200 residents will be displaced. Mercy officials say residents …

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Nearly 500 Rockwell Collins employees take early retirement offer

Some 468 senior employees at Cedar Rapids-based avionics company Rockwell Collins Inc. have accepted an early retirement offer, reports the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The company of about 20,000 workers had sought to downsize by 500 workers.…

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Taking the business pulse on Iowa’s minimum wage

Iowa is one of a minority of U.S. states with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which is the federal minimum wage. So far, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed laws…
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Urbandale, R&R add a ‘creative’ twist to tax increment financing

The city of Urbandale has worked out a tax increment financing package with R&R Realty Group with a twist: Rather than rebate a portion of property taxes based on improvements to a property, those payments…