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IowaWORKS website restored after outage

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The state of Iowa’s job search website has been restored, Iowa Workforce Development announced today. On June 26, the IowaWorks.gov website went down due to a cyberattack aimed at Geographic Solutions Inc., the …

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ISU-based rural broadband research receives equipment, service contributions from Ericsson

Multinational telecommunications company Ericsson has announced an agreement with the National Science Foundation-funded Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program to contribute equipment and services to the Agriculture and Rural Communities, or ARA, test bed based …

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Electronics failure caused Tuesday afternoon Mediacom outage

More than 210,000 Mediacom customers in the central, western and southeastern portions of Iowa and northern Missouri experienced an outage of internet services Tuesday afternoon. Mediacom Communications Director Phyllis Peters told the Business Record that …

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Cyberattack suspends Cedar Rapids summer school activities

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Cedar Rapids Gazette: A cyberattack discovered over the holiday weekend has caused the Cedar Rapids Community School District to suspend summer programming until July 11, the district said. Its announcement did not describe the …

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Drake Business Accelerator wraps up third cohort

The Drake Business Accelerator, a program of the Drake Business Clinic, has finished its third cohort, which saw 33 businesses primarily from underserved communities complete the program.

Bill Adamowski, executive director for entrepreneurship, innovation and …

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Pi515 receives $200K Black Women Impact grant from Goldman Sachs initiative

Pi515 announced Wednesday it has been awarded a multiyear $200,000 Black Women Impact grant from Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women initiative. The money is available for any use and will be distributed over two …

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Workiva study finds companies feel underprepared to navigate ESG reporting

Workiva Inc. has released results of a new global survey that examined 1,300 organizations’ current processes, collaboration and confidence in their environmental, social and governance reporting. Nearly two-thirds of senior decision-makers reported feeling underprepared to meet their …

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Report: Iowa entrepreneurship levels yet to recover after pandemic

Corridor Business Journal: Iowa has not experienced a rebound in entrepreneurship activity following the pandemic, according to a new Indicators of Entrepreneurship report from the Kauffman Foundation. That differs from the national trend. In 2021, entrepreneurship …

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New YSS youth recovery campus embeds trauma-informed design in its walls

Homes are a central component of the residential addiction treatment YSS provides to Iowa youths. Two adapted houses in Ames have served as treatment facilities to help youths feel welcomed and comfortable while they recover.…

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What is assistive technology?

Earlier this year, a veteran got to see a photo of his grandson for the first time. 


It was one of many tear-jerking experiences that the staff at Easterseals Iowa gets to experience on a …