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Regulators ask Collins Aerospace to divest military GPS business in Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Antitrust regulators with the U.S. Department of Justice reviewing the proposed merger of United Technologies and Raytheon have requested that Collins Aerospace divest its military GPS business, which employs hundreds in Cedar Rapids. …

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BrokerTech Ventures seeks startup applications for accelerator

BrokerTech Ventures announced it has opened the application window for the 2020 BrokerTech Ventures Accelerator program. “We’re looking for any and all new ideas applicable to the agent and broker community,” said Dan Keough, Holmes Murphy …

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A federal case for STEM

Jeff Weld, Iowa’s guru on all things STEM, spent a year in Washington, D.C. working on a project that in many ways gave him a chance to spread the word on successful approaches in Iowa …

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It’s an exciting time for Iowa startups, and for the corporations who embrace them

Last week, entrepreneurs and investors from across the U.S. converged on Des Moines to celebrate Insurtech Week, a time to network and swap best practices related to insurance technology. This event — and others like…
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Grinnell College, Techstars announce launch of Techstars Iowa accelerator

Techstars, a national network of accelerators and a venture capital firm, is partnering with Grinnell College to launch Techstars Iowa, to be located in Des Moines. 

Des Moines entrepreneur and former interim director for the …

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BerganKDV adds Erb’s Technology Solutions to its portfolio

BerganKDV recently announced its merger with Cedar Rapids-based Erb’s Technology Solutions, marking its second deal in two weeks, the Corridor Business Journal reports. ETS will take the BerganKDV name and consolidate its operations in the …

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CenturyLink vendor leaks customer information online

A third-party vendor inadvertently released CenturyLink customer information publicly online, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and account numbers, CenturyLink announced over the weekend. The leak occurred through an unnamed vendor and did not include …

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America’s Cultivation Corridor, partners launch global ag immersion program for countries

America’s Cultivation Corridor is partnering with multiple state and private partners to launch the Cultivo Global Ag Innovation Program, a 10-day immersion cohort designed to introduce international ag startups to leading companies and organizations in …

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Report: Iowa should develop EdTech sector as next strategic cluster

Iowa has the potential to add upward of 1,000 jobs in the emerging education technology sector over the next five years by taking advantage of its strengths in this field, according to an economic development …

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Notes from the Iowa Technology Summit

Anders Sörman-Nilsson was a lawyer before he became an internationally-known futurist, author and public speaker on the TEDGlobal circuit. His mother, who still runs the family menswear business in Stockholm, Sweden, still thinks of him …