Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Meredith Corp. has named Pete Snyder president of its newly created Emerging Markets Group. The group will contain Meredith Integrated Marketing’s current social marketing (New Media Strategies) and mobile marketing (The Hyperfactory) divisions. It also …

If you received an e-mail at work that appears to be from your bank, would you open it? How about that message that looks as if it’s from UPS saying there’s a problem with your …

Christian Renaud has announced he will step down as CEO of data loss prevention company Palisade Systems Inc.

In his personal blog, Renaud noted a difference in vision between himself and the company’s board of …

Marketlink Inc. announced on Monday that it’s opening a call center in Indianola in December.

The new facility will be the teleservices company’s seventh call center, and will add 50 employees in the first year, …

Verizon Communications Inc. added 584,000 monthly bill-paying customers in the third quarter, exceeding analysts’ expectations of 580,000 as the battle for smart-phone users continues.

Reuters reported that the company has lost market share to AT&T …

The Iowa Utilities Board has extended for at least three more years a contract with Hamilton Telephone Co., the Aurora, Neb.-based provider of Relay Iowa, a telecommunications relay service that gives individuals who are deaf, …

An International Telecommunication Union report said the number of Internet users will surpass 2 billion this year, according to Reuters.

The report said 71 percent of the population of developed countries uses the Internet as …

Facebook users are inadvertently providing access to their names and in some cases even their friends’ names to advertising and Internet tracking companies through some popular applications, the Wall Street Journal said. The issue affects …