Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Technology Association of Iowa and LWBJ Financial have announced the recipients of its annual Prometheus Awards for notable businesses and individuals in high-technology fields. Winners from Central Iowa were Submittal Exchange LLC, Des Moines, …

Apple Inc.’s iPad will continue to dominate the surging media tablet market for years, with Google Inc. playing catch-up, research firm Gartner Inc. said today. Gartner said it expects 70 million media tablets to be …

Shares of Google Inc. were up 0.3 percent at $581.70 on the Nasdaq stock exchange this afternoon following the Justice Department’s approval of the company’s purchase of ITA Software Inc., Reuters reported.

But Google must …

The Social Media Club of Des Moines has elected its 2011-2012 officers and is in the process of adopting bylaws and establishing committees. Claire Celsi, owner of The Public Relations Project LLC, will serve as …

U.S. regulators today adopted data roaming rules designed to allow smartphone users to access the Internet in areas across the country not covered by their wireless carriers, Reuters reported.

The rules, set by the Federal …

Juniper Research predicts that mobile content revenues will increase by more than 15 percent this year, Mobile Commerce Daily reports.

Mobile entertainment content revenues are projected to jump from $33.2 billion in 2010 to $38.4 …

U.S. aircraft parts supplier Goodrich Corp. will buy Microtecnica S.R.L., an Italian manufacturer of actuation systems for the aerospace industry, for about 330 million euros ($466.8 million), Reuters reported. Goodrich said the purchase will increase …

Microsoft Corp. has filed its first-ever formal complaint to European Commission regulators, claiming that Google Inc. systematically impedes Internet search competition, Reuters reported.

The action, taken on Thursday, is indicative of the rivalry between Google, …