Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Kum & Go LC of West Des Moines was the 2011 winner of the Biodiesel Marketing Award given by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey.

The secretary’s awards were created by the Iowa Department of …

Verizon Wireless and Apple Inc. announced that the iPhone 4 will be available on the Verizon network beginning Feb. 10. Currently, the iPhone is only available through AT&T Inc., and accounted for 80 percent of …

Planning to join the mobile Internet ranks in 2011? You’re not alone.

Mobile broadband subscriptions are on track to surpass 1 billion in 2011, according to a report by mobile network gear maker Ericsson.

Broadband …

Mobile phone bar code scanning experienced rapid growth in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Mobile Commerce Daily.

A Scanbuy Inc. report showed that consumers used mobile phone bar code scanning for coupons, prices …

Ames-based BodyViz said today that it has signed a non-disclosure agreement with Tata Elxsi Ltd. for negotiations on an international distribution agreement. Tata Elxsi is a division of the $70 billion Tata Group of companies …

Rivals hoping to challenge Apple Inc.’s hold on the computer tablet market unveiled a slew of touch-screen devices at the Consumer Electronics Show, but analysts expect the company to continue dominating the sector, Reuters reported.…

Gartner Inc. has listed Lightedge Solutions Inc. in the “Visionaries” category of its 2010 Unified Communication as a Service North American report. The annual report is based on a study of hosted unified communications providers’ …

Alice Hill has been hired as the managing director of New York-based Dice Holdings Inc.’s Dice.com.

Hill will be located at the company’s Silicon Valley site, but will also have an office at the company’s …