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Gravitate hosts U.Lab online course

Gravitate is hosting a free massive online open course (MOOC) beginning Sept. 10. The class, called U.Lab, teaches students how to move from egocentric to ecocentric by using a concept called Theory U. This method was developed …

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CenturyLink promotes Midwest region president

CenturyLink Inc. has named Duane Ring senior vice president of global field operations. Ring was previously CenturyLink’s region president for its 12-state Midwest Region, which includes Iowa. In this new role, Ring will be responsible …

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Iowa stocks largely down in August

The first day of September sure felt a lot like August on Wall Street.
Each month the Business Record provides a look back at the performance of Iowa’s publicly traded companies during the previous month.…
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Stock markets drop nearly 3 percent, Iowa index down 2.19 percent

U.S. stocks plummeted Tuesday as continued signs of weakness in China and concerns about the Federal Reserve weighed heavily on investor sentiment, CNBC reported.

The major averages ended in correction territory, down nearly 3 percent after…
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Greater Des Moines construction employment advances

Greater Des Moines construction employment increased by 500 jobs over the year that ended July 31, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. The trade group said in a news release that 168 of …

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Deere announces layoffs in Quad Cities

Deere & Co. has announced a new round of layoffs at its Quad Cities facilities, including 150 from its Harvester Works in East Moline, Ill., the Quad-City Times reported. The affected workers in East Moline make combines …

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Event Sept. 16: Benjamin Lefever to appear at StartUp Stories

Benjamin Lefever, founder of of Certintell, will take questions at this month’s StartUp Stories, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 16 in Conference Room 101 at Ruan II, 601 Locust St. Certintell, now 2 years old, provides a cloud-based …

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Iowa Business Council: Economy slowed in Q3

Iowa Business Council members expect a good Iowa economy in the next six months, but they aren’t as excited as they were the past few quarters.


“The reach of global economic concerns may finally be…
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Gallup: Worker fears over pay cuts decline

About one in five U.S. workers is concerned about facing a pay cut soon, according to new data from Gallup, The Hill reported. That’s a sharp decline from the years directly after the 2008 fiscal crisis, when …

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Convention center board gets first look at management agreement with Hilton

Hilton Worldwide Inc. could receive nearly $1.2 million in management fees annually after revenues stabilize in the fifth year of operation of a proposed $100 million, 330-room convention center hotel in downtown Des Moines.

Hilton…