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Dice Talent Network embraces social media tools


Technology and engineering professionals have a new way to connect with potential employers, through a social media-based product launched last month on Urbandale-based Dice.com.

Using the Dice Talent Network, each user of the jobs-board website …

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Pioneer opens crop research center in Ukraine

Pioneer Hi-Bred Ukraine announced the official opening of its now fully operational multi-crop research center in Lyubartsi, Ukraine. The Pioneer Lyubartsi Research Center will develop and test high-quality hybrid corn, sunflower and canola products for …

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Brand Chef and createWOWmedia merge

Two Greater Des Moines interactive marketing professionals, Andrew Clark and Doug Mitchell, have merged their respective firms, The Brand Chef and createWOWmedia, to launch createWOWmarketing LLC  http://www.createWOWmarketing. com. The new company will deliver complete online …

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GeoLearning ranking up

GeoLearning Inc. was named to Inc. 5000’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the seventh consecutive year. The West Des Moines-based business was recognized for a 55 percent growth in revenue from …

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Banking on the Fly


Pay your bills while you’re in line at the store? Possible. Transfer funds while you’re waiting for your daughter’s play to begin? No problem.

An increasing number of Iowans are discovering the convenience of using …

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New firm helps clients outsource social media


This social media start-up wants to go national. And it’s already well on its way.

West Des Moines-based One Social Media LLC, which was conceived in March by CEO Joe Soto and two minority owners, …

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Keep an eye on these three Iowa tech start-ups


Geosync Global LLC

Geosync Global LLC is trying to use augmented reality to merge the written and physical world with the benefits of the virtual world.

The Des Moines-based business, which was started in May …

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CreateWOWmedia nurtures ‘online findability’


Two years ago, Tom Boesen didn’t know squat about social media, and his company’s absence from that burgeoning online realm reflected it. But he realized that social media could help him reach out to under-40 …

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Social Media Club to look at B2B communications


Business-to-business communications will be the topic of the July 28 Social Media Club Des Moines event, the newly formed nonprofit organization’s president said.

Mike Templeton, a Catchfire Media LLC analyst who helped form a local …

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Raising money with social media


The good news: There’s a free Facebook application called Causes that has helped nonprofit organizations, like Students for a Free Tibet and The Nature Conservancy, raise more than $100,000. The tool, which aims to make …