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Ames Seed Capital names new director

Mike Upah, pictured, has been named the director of Ames Seed Capital, an organization that provides seed funding for startup companies in the Story County area. According to a news release from the Ames Chamber …

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Courtney Kay-Decker, who was director of the Iowa Department of Revenue from 2011 to 2019, has been selected by the Internal Revenue Service as one of 10 new members of the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, the IRS announced.

A national report finds that 82% of Iowa small businesses increased their use of digital tools during the pandemic, compared with 72% of small businesses nationally, the Connected Commerce Council announced in “Digitally Driven” this …

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Industrial cleaning companies Emory Dry Ice, NexGen merge in $12.9 million deal

Emory Dry Ice Inc. and NexGen Industrial Services Inc. have announced the recent merger of the two companies to create Emory Industrial Services Inc., which operates throughout the United States. The all-stock merger, completed Aug. 31, was …

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Crash course in a new way to work

Anna Simon, a senior at Iowa State University, stopped by Renewable Energy Group’s Ames office in early June to pick up her new work laptop. She would be spending the summer working with communications manager …

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STEM council one of three Iowa entities notified by Blackbaud of ransomware attack

The Governor’s STEM Advisory Council has confirmed it was a customer of a financial services contractor targeted in a massive international ransomware attack earlier this year, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported. The council is one of …

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Credit union new to Polk County will feature video tellers who will assist customers from Dubuque

Construction of a Grimes branch office of Dupaco Community Credit Union is expected to begin this fall. The project is valued at a little over $6 million. 
Architectural rendering special to the Business Record

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Coding out hunger

Can food insecurity be addressed through a software program? With custom software created for area nonprofits, Polk County’s information technology department is developing the answer. 

Tasked by the Polk County Board of Supervisors in early …

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Mediacom reports widespread service outages, cuts to fiber network

Mediacom reported approximately 340,000 customers were still affected Tuesday by service outages after Monday’s powerful storm. The company identified three major cuts to Mediacom’s fiber network in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Vinton, which will …

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ISU Foundation contractor reports ransomware attack; donor information accessed

A third-party service provider to the Iowa State University Foundation experienced a massive ransomware attack, affecting more than 20 universities and nonprofits in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada. Blackbaud, an international provider of cloud-based …

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VizyPay’s Look Local First targets small business digital marketing strategies

West Des Moines-based payment processing company VizyPay is using its Look Local First initiative to help local businesses rebuild after pandemic-related disruption with free digital marketing efforts, VizyPay announced this week. Look Local First initially …