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Twitter dealing with security flaw

Twitter, the popular social media website for broadcasting short messages, said on Tuesday it has suffered an XSS attack, a security flaw on its website, which it is fixing with a patch after users complained, …

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Research building at Iowa State open for business

As Iowa State University students and faculty begin research in the Biorenewables Research Laboratory, many of the instruments and other equipment they are using are funded by national corporations.

The facility, the newest building on …

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Iowa Health System makes InformationWeek 500 list

Iowa Health System announced yesterday that it made this year’s InformationWeek 500. This is Iowa Health System’s first appearance on the list, which measures the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. The company recently …

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GeoLearning named to Top 20 Learning Portal Companies list

West Des Moines-based GeoLearning announced its inclusion on the TrainingIndustry.com “2010 Top 20 Learning Portal Companies” list. GeoLearning produces an Internet-hosted learning management platform used by more than 700 corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations, …

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Tech industry job growth lags

The U.S. technology industry added jobs through the first six months of 2010 but remains well behind where it was a year ago, according to a report issued Tuesday, the Kansas City Business Journal reported. …

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Pioneer acquires majority stake in African seed company

Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. has reached an agreement to purchase a majority share in Pannar Seed Ltd., a South Africa-based seed company with operations throughout Africa and other parts of the world. Financial terms for …

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Harkin announces grant to expand broadband in rural medical facilities

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced that the Central Iowa Hospital Corp. will receive a grant of $8.3 million, with an additional $6.2 million in matching gifts, to allow the corporation to bring high-speed broadband capabilities …

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A place to share your antique interests


Like other entrepreneurs of the Internet, Dave Briddle and Larry Gottula launched a business that has yet to present revenue opportunities. But they are convinced the dollars will come.

The business, iAntique.com, is a social …

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Pappajohn winners weather stormy economy


Shortly after Curt Carlson accepted the $25,000 first-place award in the John Pappajohn Iowa Business Plan Competition last year, he flew to Los Angeles to oversee the use of his company’s BodyViz software on the …

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Banks consider switch to iPhone

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is considering a change that would allow its employees to use iPhones for corporate e-mail, Bloomberg reported.

The shift would present an alternative to the BlackBerry, a Research in Motion Ltd. …