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CenturyLink closing Des Moines office

CenturyLink Inc., in a move it is calling a consolidation, will close its Des Moines business office and offer 144 employees there a job with the company in Sioux City, said Nancy Devinay-McNeley, CenturyLink’s market …

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Internet Society introduces IPv6

You now have the capability to have a billion billion mobile devices for every second of your entire life.  

The global organization Internet Society launched IPv6 today, increasing the number of Internet protocol addresses …

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Broadband Internet use up in Iowa

An Iowa nonprofit group says broadband access in Iowa has increased in the last year, and that only 28,000 Iowans are without access to basic high-speed Internet service throughout the state.

Connect Iowa, an organization …

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Twitter could reach $1 billion in sales by 2014

Twitter Inc. expects to generate at least $1 billion in sales in 2014, two people with knowledge of the matter said, indicating that the microblogging service will grow about twice as fast as some analysts …

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Laser Resources acquires Iowa piece of Omaha business

Local printing solutions provider Laser Resources LLC (LRI) acquired Omaha-based Bishop Business Equipment’s operations in Central Iowa.

The acquisition makes Laser Resources the largest authorized Toshiba dealer in the state. LRI will take over the …

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A Closer Look: Debra Janssen

Debra Janssen recently took over a newly created role as chief operating officer at CDS Global. Prior to taking the position, she most recently worked as a group executive of Integrated Processing Solutions and managing …

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5 things businesses should know about cloud computing

Even the experts can have a hard time defining cloud computing in one to two sentences.

Doug Jacobson, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University, might have best summed it up …

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MY MEDIA: With Nikki Syverson, Event Director, Winefest Des Moines


• Newspapers: The Des Moines Register, the Business Record

• News broadcast: CNN

• Magazines: Wine Spectator, Parents

• Movie: “My Week With Marilyn”

• Phone app: Sound Hound, to figure out what song is …

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ICANN announces release date for new domain name endings

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it will stop taking requests for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) – the endings of domain names such as .com or .org – and will announce…
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TEDxDesMoines tickets on sale tomorrow

Tickets for the innovation and technology conference TEDxDesMoines will go on sale tomorrow morning through Midwestix.com.

The conference, held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on July 15 at the Science Center of Iowa, will …