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Workiva names new chief operating officer

Workiva’s board of directors has named Julie Iskow as chief operating officer and executive vice president. Iskow previously served as chief technology officer and executive vice president at Medidata Solutions, a technology and data platform …

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FTC approves settlement with Iowa software services company over security practices

FTC approves settlement with Iowa software services company over security practices

By Kate Hayden | Staff Writer

An Iowa software company selling data services to auto dealers has agreed to a settlement with the Federal …

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Iowa part of antitrust investigation of Facebook by state attorneys general

New York Times: Regulators in Iowa, seven other states and the District of Columbia are moving forward with an antitrust investigation into Facebook, New York’s attorney general said today, the latest move by government officials …

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A Closer Look: Nadilia Gomez

Now the executive director at the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator, Nadilia Gomez grew up in Panama City, Panama, but developed a passion for agriculture as she visited her grandmother’s hometown, a small farming community without electricity …

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Huyser to lead Lely North America

Chad Huyser has been named a regional director of Lely International and president of Lely North America, which is based in Pella. Huyser will lead all of Lely’s North American efforts and serve as one of …

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Smart Ag

As an up-and-coming startup in the agtech industry, the people behind Ames-based Smart Ag have experienced the startup scramble once or twice. 

Just before the 2018 Farm Progress Show – the international event that launched …

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McKee, Voorhees & Sease to host IP basics course

McKee, Voorhees & Sease PLC will host a one-day interactive course on the business basics of intellectual property on Sept. 12 at its Des Moines office. The course, offered by the Iowa Chapter of the …

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Century Link outage leaves majority of Iowa customers without internet access

Des Moines Register: A critical outage caused a majority of CenturyLink customers in Iowa to be without access to the internet for several hours today. According to Fing, an internet speed and outage analyzing website, the …

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Security researcher ties listing of 5M+ stolen credit, debit cards to Hy-Vee security event

More than 5.3 million new payment card accounts on sale at an underground data market may be tied to the July data security event suffered by Hy-Vee Inc. at its fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops …

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IMT Computer Services acquires PDSpectrum platform

IMT Computer Services, a part of IMT Insurance in West Des Moines, announced it has acquired the PDSpectrum insurance processing platform, which is based in Omaha. The company did not disclose the financial terms of …