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Innovas Technologies wins Pappajohn venture competition

Innovas Technologies won the first-place prize of $25,000 in this year’s John Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture Competition. Innovas Technologies designs, manufactures and distributes shell and tube cleaning technology for heat exchangers. Fanstreamm claimed $15,000 for second place for …

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Best of Des Moines 2015

It’s time again for our annual Best of Des Moines awards. As in past years, our readers voted via an online open-ended survey for the businesses, people and events that they thought were the “Best …

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Event Oct. 19: DMACC STEM Festival for young students

Des Moines Area Community College will host its second-annual free STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at the FFA Enrichment Center Atrium on the Ankeny campus. The …

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Gravitate plans market research session Wednesday

Gravitate will host Richard Martin, a market analyst with Ankeny-based Advanced Analytical Technologies Inc., for a noon presentation on Wednesday. Martin’s company makes an instrument that analyzes DNA and RNA. Previously, Martin ran business-to-business market …

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Rockwell Collins to eliminate 500 positions

Rockwell Collins Inc. plans to eliminate 500 jobs nationwide in response to weakness in its business aviation market, which includes sales of executive jets and regional jets, Corridor Business Journal reported. The company is working on details …

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Iowa Communications Alliance adds tech scholarship at DMACC

The Iowa Communications Alliance has added a Next-Gen Technology Scholarship program at Des Moines Area Community College to develop expert workers in the telecommunications technology field. The scholarship covers three-fourths of the tuition for technical …

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Biotech group planning investor event for startups

Some of the leading biotechnology startup companies in Iowa will have a new opportunity to connect with potential investors through an expanded event hosted by the Iowa Biotechnology Association.


The Iowa Biotechnology Association announced it…
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General Mills uses immersive technology for college recruiting

Recruiters at General Mills Inc. are making it easier for college students to experience what it would be like to work for the company by using the latest in virtual reality technology, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. Using …

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Des Moines moves up to 7th for tech in SmartAsset.com rankings

Des Moines moved to seventh, up from No. 15 last year, in SmartAsset.com’s rankings of the nation’s top cities for tech work. The site mentioned that tech is taking off in Des Moines, with 700 jobs added …

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DMACC to offer IT certificate designed for women

Des Moines Area Community College will offer a new accelerated certificate program in an effort to attract more diversity into the information technology profession.


The Java Application Developer Certificate is part of a collaborative initiative…
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