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GoDaddy moving jobs from Hiawatha to Arizona

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Internet domain hosting company GoDaddy will move 134 positions from its Hiawatha office to Arizona, the company told employees today in an email. GoDaddy cited decreased revenue during coronavirus and increased effectiveness of …

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How we solved it

As the broader construction industry grapples with an exodus of experienced employees, Story Construction in Ames has turned to a novel new trailer on their project lots. 

The Story 2.0 Method, as they call it, …

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Deere announces new tech-centered operating model

Deere & Co. on Wednesday announced a new vision and operating model aimed at accelerating its integration of smart technology into its products. The new model, which the manufacturer has labeled its Deere Smart Industrial …

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Investing in health care technology partners

Matt Warrens can usually tell immediately how valuable a new technology application will be to health care workers when he talks directly with front-line clinicians. 

“You can just see from their expressions and how receptive …

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EntreFEST 2020 takeaways: Through the viewing glass

At the morning keynote on June 4, NewBoCo Executive Director Eric Engelmann sat down at his computer with a plastic toy hand-clapper and gave it a good shake. The session’s “pre-standing ovation,” an EntreFEST tradition, …

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Regents approve new ISU department name: Management and Entrepreneurship

The Iowa Board of Regents this week approved a new name for the business management department at Iowa State University’s Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business. The approved name, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, …

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DMACC plans for majority of fall classes to be online but on real-time, virtual basis

Des Moines Area Community College announced today it plans to move a majority of its programs to real-time, virtual classes for its fall semester across its campuses. The move would include about 55% of DMACC …

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Denim, Gremlin Social merge to launch joint content creation/targeted advertising platform for financial services

Des Moines fintech startup Denim is now Denim Social after merging with St. Louis-based fintech Gremlin Social, which offers a social media content creation and management platform for financial service firms. 

As Denim Social, the company is …

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Drake University student shares industry struggles as he prepares to graduate

Xavier Lechleitner is finishing his senior year of college at Drake University at home in Edgar, Wis., on his family’s cattle farm. When Lechleitner’s operations management class asked students to submit a video blog exploring …

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Computer scientists launch new search tool for COVID-19 researchers

After the White House called on researchers nationally to assist in COVID-19, Hridesh Rajan realized that the large body of published papers on coronaviruses and other epidemiology studies could offer “game-changing insights” for medical researchers …