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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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State expands deal with Dwolla

Gov. Terry Branstad today announced a continuation of the state’s partnership with Des Moines-based Internet-payment company Dwolla Inc. Iowa Department of Transportation customers can now use Dwolla when filing and paying International Fuel Tax Agreement …

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T-Mobile acquires spectrum from Verizon

T-Mobile US Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, has agreed to buy spectrum, or wireless capacity, from Verizon Wireless for about $2.4 billion in cash as part of an airwave swap that will give both …

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Tech companies come under one umbrella

Vital Support Systems LLC, an information technology company based in Des Moines, announced today that the company will begin operating with five other companies under the name of OneNeck IT Solutions. OneNeck is a company …

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Power Roundtable: STEM

Editor’s note: Before all of our Power Breakfast events, we bring the panelists to the Business Record for a pre-event meeting on the topic and to banter through potential questions. We always leave that meeting …

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INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

Last year we set out to unearth companies right here in Iowa that were IGNITED by a desire to solve inefficiencies in an innovative way. We continue our look again this year at three more …

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Dice unveils social media tool for recruiters

New York-based technology jobs website Dice Holdings Inc., which bases its operations in Urbandale, has rolled out a new tool called Open Web, Crain’s New York Business reported.

Open Web compiles information from millions of …

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A tablet a month can get expensive

Users of  tablet computers are spending much more money on those devices than smartphone owners spend on theirs, according to ABI Research.

 Twenty-two percent of tablet users spend about $50 a month and 9 percent …

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Apple’s shares rotten after weak sales increase

Apple Inc. shares fell the most in two years after posting the slowest profit growth since 2003 and weakest sales increase in 14 quarters, Bloomberg reported.

The shares dropped 9.7 percent this morning, the biggest …

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Peeling away at the Apple rumors

On a slow news day, with U.S. markets closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, there’s always room for one more Apple Inc. rumor, and MarketWatch is prepared to serve it up.  

The latest came …

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PayPal planning major changes to ‘frozen funds’ policy

PayPal says it is readying a fundamental shift in its business practices in an effort to make its money-exchange website more user friendly, CNNMoney reported.

PayPal’s overzealous fraud filters have frustrated customers for years, with …