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Groups use social media to promote restaurants


Sometimes the simple ideas take hold.

Emily Beckmann decided to try the guacamole one night at Dos Rios restaurant downtown, and discovered she loved it. So she shared her experience on Twitter, and it turned …

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Three energy projects receive grants

The Iowa Power Fund Board approved a total of $4.2 million for three energy projects.

Ames-based AmbroZea Inc. was awarded $1.5 million to apply high-protein expression biotechnology to optimize multi-tasking yeast for commercial development in …

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BodyViz expands software globally

Ames-based BodyViz yesterday sold one of its machines to Teikyo University in Japan, less than 30 days after signing a distribution agreement with Japanese-based OPT Technologies.

BodyViz machines create three-dimensional MRI/CT scan visualizations out of …

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Palisade partners with Accellion

Des Moines-based Palisade Systems Inc. announced a partnership today with California-based Accellion Inc., a provider of secure file transfer systems.

Palisade specializes in data loss prevention, and the partnership will better enable it to help …

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Manufacturing industry sees growth

The U.S. manufacturing industry posted its 15th consecutive month of growth in October and grew at a faster rate than in September, according to a report from the Institute for Supply Management.

The PMI, the …

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Rockwell Collins earnings up

Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins Inc. reported a 12 percent jump in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings last Friday, led by climbing sales in both its government and commercial divisions. The company’s net income climbed to $150 million, …

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Meredith names Emerging Markets president

Meredith Corp. has named Pete Snyder president of its newly created Emerging Markets Group. The group will contain Meredith Integrated Marketing’s current social marketing (New Media Strategies) and mobile marketing (The Hyperfactory) divisions. It also …

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Telephone associations raise concern with plan


Joe Hrdlicka knows the National Broadband Plan has good intentions.

It’s the unintended consequences he’s worried about.

Hrdlicka, an information specialist with the Iowa Telecommunications Association (ITA), recently filed a joint comment to the Iowa …

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RSM McGladrey warns of cyber fraud outbreak in Iowa

If you received an e-mail at work that appears to be from your bank, would you open it? How about that message that looks as if it’s from UPS saying there’s a problem with your …

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Renaud steps down at Palisade

Christian Renaud has announced he will step down as CEO of data loss prevention company Palisade Systems Inc.

In his personal blog, Renaud noted a difference in vision between himself and the company’s board of …