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Tackling real-world problems at school

Remember sitting in classes in elementary school or high school and wondering, “Will I ever use this in the real world?” 

Through an initiative known as the New Tech Network that’s being rolled out this …

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Business Record 5-13-16

A Cultural Shift
Rebranded INS Family of Companies creates a new vision for the future.

Focus: Banking, Finance & Investments

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NOTEBOOK: Global war for tech talent is real

A few weeks ago the Business Record hosted a video roundtable on tech and innovation.

We invited Jodi Jones of Source Allies, Mike Colwell of Square One DSM, Brian Waller of the Technology Association of Iowa …

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IBM cybersecurity expert in Des Moines: Firewalls aren’t enough anymore

Michael Montecillo, an IBM cybersecurity expert, said in an interview Tuesday that companies facing today’s ever-worsening threats should first identify their critical systems.

Then they should realize this: Firewalls aren’t enough anymore, he added. An…
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NOTEBOOK: Skywalk or long jump from Dwell to Hubbell Tower?

Hubbell Realty Co.’s Dwell apartment building is under construction at Ninth and Mulberry streets, right across the street from the Des Moines Social Club and virtually in the shadow of Hubbell Tower Apartments, the company’s …

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NOTEBOOK: The next bubble? We’re blind

I asked a bubble related question to the panel at the CFA Society Iowa dinner, which was moderated by Jim McCaughan, CEO of Principal Global Investors.

After much of the night had been spent talking …

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NOTEBOOK: Iowa provides culture shock for these Southern transplants

The new director for the city of Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Department and his bride have had some culture shock since their move here in October.

Joshua Barr’s wife, Lorena, is from Colombia, …

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NOTEBOOK: Workforce development, Pella style

The Pella Chamber of Commerce has its own way of both luring workers to town and keeping them there. “Our major employers want to reduce turnover,” said Karen Eischen, the chamber’s executive director.

Positively Pella …

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On the Move: Week of May 2

Brenda Mataya Landmark Companies Inc. Hired as operations administrator bmataya@lmcompanies-inc.com


Blake Campbell Best Buddies Iowa Hired as state director blakecampbell@bestbuddies.org


Jim Holter Merchants Bonding Co. Appointed to executive committee as vice president of commercial surety…
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Hubbell offers an apartment project as a means to boost efforts to fund YMCA pool

View downtown project map Hubbell Realty Co. is planning an apartment project that will put the YMCA of Greater Des Moines $1 million closer to its goal of funding a multimillion-dollar swimming pool at the…