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Tickets for Wozniak at DMACC all gone

Tickets for Wozniak at DMACC all gone   Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) announced yesterday that public tickets for a speech by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak were all distributed in 10 minutes after…
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AT&T says it plans to continue investment in Iowa

AT&T Inc. announced yesterday that it has invested more than $125 million in its Iowa wireless and wireline networks from 2009 through 2011.

During 2011, the company made nearly 400 wireless network upgrades in the …

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Google looks to add satellite antennas to Council Bluffs data center

Google Fiber Inc., a Google Inc. subsidiary, wants permission to place satellite antennas on land near its Council Bluffs data center, Data Center Knowledge.com reported.

The website, which provides news and analysis on the data …

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Age and income define smartphone owners

A Nielsen survey of smartphone owners that was released today found that 66 percent are age 24 to 34, CNNMoney reported. When age and income are both taken into account, older subscribers with higher incomes …

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Dwolla Corp. earlier this month raised $5 million in funding and made a commitment to stay in Des Moines.

The decision for Dwolla, a mobile-phone payment system founded by Ben Milne that currently completes more …

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New View luncheon to focus on tech start-ups

New View luncheon to focus on tech start-ups  Geoff Wood, chief operating officer of Silicon Prairie News, Charise Flynn, chief operating officer of Dwolla Corp., and Jake Kerber, founder of Locusic, will be the panelists…
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CenturyLink reports lower results

CenturyLink reports lower results  CenturyLink Inc. reported fourth-quarter net income of $109 million, or 18 cents per share, down from $225 million, or 74 cents per share, the previous year. For the year, the company…
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LightEdge expands in Kansas City area

LightEdge Solutions Inc. of Des Moines has signed a three-year lease for roughly 2,500 square feet in Overland Park, Kan., in a move to tap into the expansion of Google Inc.’s 1-gigabit broadband network in …

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Study: U.S. tech outsourcing continues to decline

Study: U.S. tech outsourcing continues to decline   Outsourcing in the U.S. technology industry has declined for the third straight year, according to a new study.   Accounting and consulting firm BDO USA’s survey of…
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Social Money Systems expands overseas

Social Money Systems, parent company of SmartyPig technology, announced the opening  of a new office in Chandigarh, India.

“Being in India is part of our expansion initiative into key global growth markets,” said Social Money …