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The Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau (GDMCVB) will hold the “GDMCVB Marketing and Media Panel Discussion” for businesses wanting to learn more about working with the media and how to stretch marketing dollars …

A group of five M.B.A. students in the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business have made it their semester project to help children who are blind or visually impaired.

The Chicago Lighthouse for People …

You are a hiring manager at a business.

Behind door No. 1 is a candidate who has earned an associate degree from a community college. Behind door No. 2, a candidate without the degree. Whom …

CenturyLink Inc., a Louisiana-based rural telephone company, announced this morning it will buy Qwest Communications International Inc. for about $10.6 billion in stock. Qwest, which is based in Denver, employs approximately 1,550 people in Iowa, …

Simon Property Group Inc., which in February offered to purchase rival mall owner General Growth Properties Inc., has added four backers to its proposal to help General Growth emerge from bankruptcy, Bloomberg reported. In Iowa, …

Drake University announced today that Franklin “Pitch” Johnson Jr. and his wife, Catherine, have made a $2 million commitment to endow and establish the Franklin P. Johnson Director of the Drake Relays. The new position …

Small businesses could get increased access to loans, overseas markets and government contracts under a bill being prepared in the U.S. Senate, Democratic lawmakers said this morning.

The bill is still taking shape, Reuters reported, …

Lenders are beginning to sell troubled assets and distressed loans, but working through the mess will likely be a slow process, Reuters reported.

The commercial real estate market plummeted in 2008, following declines in the …