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Spotify launches app to challenge Pandora

Spotify Ltd. is going after Pandora Media Inc.’s mobile music streaming market.

Today, Spotify launched an application available through Apple Inc.’s AppStore that lets users stream music on mobile devices. 

Spotify is a digital music …

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Facebook creating location-based ad network

Facebook Inc. is looking into ways to incorporate the real-time locations of users into its mobile advertising, according to Bloomberg.    The social media network already uses ZIP codes to target ads to users, but…
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Appcore named fastest growing company

Des Moines infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud computing company Appcore LLC has been named the Fastest Growing Company in Five Elms Capital’s Flyover 50 awards.

Appcore took the the top spot based on total revenue growth, according …

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Microsoft may announce tablet plans today

Microsoft Corp. is expected to release a preview of a tablet computer to rival Apple Inc.’s iPad at an event today in Los Angeles.

Sales of the iPad are expected to reach $78.7 billion this …

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Principal 16th best place to work in IT

For the 11th year in a row, Principal Financial Group Inc. has made Computerworld’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology.

Principal ranked 16th this year, the highest ranking it has received. …

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New initiative: Central Iowa SourceLink

Kevin Lentz was stumped when a friend asked him “where would you even begin the process” of starting a small business.

There are a number of resources in the area, from local and state programs …

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Nationview: Erik van Ommeren

Erik van Ommeren, director of vision, inspiration, navigation and trends (VINT) at Sogeti USA, came to Des Moines from Washington, D.C., in early June to give a presentation on the mobile applications industry. Sogeti’s VINT …

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CenturyLink wins Social Security contract

CenturyLink Inc. was recently awarded a $233 million contract from the Social Security Administration to help provide infrastructure for data, video and voice services, the company announced.

CenturyLink will provide infrastructure in 1,500 field offices, …

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Information technology workers in demand

Four percent of chief information officers in a region made up of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota plan to hire information technology (IT) staff in the third quarter of 2012, …

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Facebook, too, has an app for that

Facebook Inc. has introduced an online directory for downloadable applications, taking a page from Apple Inc.and Google Inc. The service, called App Center, debuted with 600 applications, including Zynga Inc.’s “Draw Something” game and Pinterest Inc.’s online bulletin board, Bloomberg …