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Marketlink to open location in Indianola

Marketlink Inc. announced on Monday that it’s opening a call center in Indianola in December.

The new facility will be the teleservices company’s seventh call center, and will add 50 employees in the first year, …

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Verizon beats expectations; plans to offer iPhone

Verizon Communications Inc. added 584,000 monthly bill-paying customers in the third quarter, exceeding analysts’ expectations of 580,000 as the battle for smart-phone users continues.

Reuters reported that the company has lost market share to AT&T …

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Utilities Board extends Hamilton contract

The Iowa Utilities Board has extended for at least three more years a contract with Hamilton Telephone Co., the Aurora, Neb.-based provider of Relay Iowa, a telecommunications relay service that gives individuals who are deaf, …

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Internet usage to reach 2 billion people

An International Telecommunication Union report said the number of Internet users will surpass 2 billion this year, according to Reuters.

The report said 71 percent of the population of developed countries uses the Internet as …

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Facebook springs a leak

Facebook users are inadvertently providing access to their names and in some cases even their friends’ names to advertising and Internet tracking companies through some popular applications, the Wall Street Journal said. The issue affects …

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Former ISU students put biomass research to use


Three former Iowa State University graduate students are reaping the benefit of working hard in school.

In the process, they hope to have a technology that can commercialize biomass, which is classified as any plant …

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Sigler checks in to Foursquare


The global social media phenomenon known as Foursquare Inc. has tapped Sigler Cos. to help it market its merchandise all over the world.

On Aug. 8, the Ames-based company launched an online retail outlet for …

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Online Ashford students to converge

On Oct. 16, Clinton-based Ashford University will hold its first graduation ceremony exclusively for online students. More than 700 students, the majority of whom have never met one another face-to-face, will gather at 3 p.m. …

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Sogeti receives vendor award

Sogeti USA, an international provider of professional information technology services, has received the annual Vendor Partnership Award from Butler Schein Animal Health. Sogeti, which has an office in Clive, was honored for helping Butler Schein …

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Potential partnership could challenge Google

Microsoft Corp deepened its ties with social networking company Facebook Inc. on Wednesday, bolstering its fledgling Bing search engine in an effort to catch up with Google Inc., Reuters reported.

Bing has started taking data …