Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Heartland Technology Alliance (HTA), a new nonprofit alliance of technology professionals that supports connecting more people to each other and to the future in the Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, will host a …

Forrester Research’s largest annual survey of Americans’ technology adoption finds that 73 percent of the 37,000 respondents say the mobile phone is the electronic device they use the most., Mobile Marketer reports.

Fifty-eight percent said …

Nine states so far have approved the pending buyout of Qwest by CenturyLink, according to an article in the Denver Business Journal; the deal needs approval from 12 more states. The Iowa Utilities Board will …

Twitter, the popular social media website for broadcasting short messages, said on Tuesday it has suffered an XSS attack, a security flaw on its website, which it is fixing with a patch after users complained, …

As Iowa State University students and faculty begin research in the Biorenewables Research Laboratory, many of the instruments and other equipment they are using are funded by national corporations.

The facility, the newest building on …

Iowa Health System announced yesterday that it made this year’s InformationWeek 500. This is Iowa Health System’s first appearance on the list, which measures the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. The company recently …

West Des Moines-based GeoLearning announced its inclusion on the TrainingIndustry.com “2010 Top 20 Learning Portal Companies” list. GeoLearning produces an Internet-hosted learning management platform used by more than 700 corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations, …

The U.S. technology industry added jobs through the first six months of 2010 but remains well behind where it was a year ago, according to a report issued Tuesday, the Kansas City Business Journal reported. …

Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. has reached an agreement to purchase a majority share in Pannar Seed Ltd., a South Africa-based seed company with operations throughout Africa and other parts of the world. Financial terms for …

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced that the Central Iowa Hospital Corp. will receive a grant of $8.3 million, with an additional $6.2 million in matching gifts, to allow the corporation to bring high-speed broadband capabilities …