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One Good Read: Amazon 2nd HQ: Some expect another round of finalists


For a few seconds, Iowa dreamed it might get interest from another high-tech name when Amazon said it was looking for a second headquarters last year. (The news came after Apple announced its data centers…
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Land O’Lakes Foundation donates $5 million to ISU

The Land O’Lakes Foundation has made a $5 million commitment to Iowa State University aimed at helping ISU attract and retain top faculty and research talent in supply chain management and inspiring innovation. A significant portion of …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition is on presale, but there are plenty of questions to ask

Kiddie tech is growing up right alongside the kids it seeks to serve, and the parents have a lot of questions to ask, reports BuzzFeed News. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition goes on presale today …

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Roosevelt High School graduate to be featured on ’60 Minutes’

An Iowa high school alumni and MIT geneticist will be a featured expert this Sunday on the national news program “60 Minutes” during a segment explaining CRISPR technology. Feng Zhang is a 2000 graduate of …

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Phishing attack compromises information of 16,000 UnityPoint Health patients

About 16,000 UnityPoint Health patients could have had personal information compromised after a phishing attack in February, the Des Moines Register reports. In a letter to patients sent April 16, UnityPoint Health said that patient accounts …

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A Closer Look: Jami Milne

When Christopher Diebel at Happy Medium first emailed me about Jami Milne, the company’s new director of connections strategy, this is what he had to say:

“Happy Medium employs a diverse roster of people who …

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Project Revoice gives voices back to ALS patients — digitally

The ALS Association on Thursday launched Project Revoice, an international initiative to help people with ALS (also known as motor neuron disease) record their voices so they still use their “voice” after they lose their …

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TAI winners include Sukup, REG, Cedar Rapids

The Technology Association of Iowa and LWBJ have given this year’s Prometheus Awards to a slate of innovative companies and individuals, including venture capital fund Next Level Ventures, Circle Computer Resources and Phantom EFX.

TAI …

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FDA approves first product for Coralville-based IDx

Corridor Business Journal: IDx, a University of Iowa spinout company based in Coralville, has received FDA approval to market IDx-DR, the  first medical device to use artificial intelligence to detect greater than a mild level of …

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Cedar Rapids security firm finds growing demand for cameras at schools, universities

When Marc Meyer founded the video security management startup Inteconnex in Cedar Rapids eight years ago, it was expected that the web-based cameras could serve security needs for systems like Mercy Medical Center, or Lincoln, …