Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Pay your bills while you’re in line at the store? Possible. Transfer funds while you’re waiting for your daughter’s play to begin? No problem.

An increasing number of Iowans are discovering the convenience of using …

This social media start-up wants to go national. And it’s already well on its way.

West Des Moines-based One Social Media LLC, which was conceived in March by CEO Joe Soto and two minority owners, …

Geosync Global LLC

Geosync Global LLC is trying to use augmented reality to merge the written and physical world with the benefits of the virtual world.

The Des Moines-based business, which was started in May …

Two years ago, Tom Boesen didn’t know squat about social media, and his company’s absence from that burgeoning online realm reflected it. But he realized that social media could help him reach out to under-40 …

Business-to-business communications will be the topic of the July 28 Social Media Club Des Moines event, the newly formed nonprofit organization’s president said.

Mike Templeton, a Catchfire Media LLC analyst who helped form a local …

The good news: There’s a free Facebook application called Causes that has helped nonprofit organizations, like Students for a Free Tibet and The Nature Conservancy, raise more than $100,000. The tool, which aims to make …

Matt Rizai is among the tens of thousands of entrepreneurs who know how incredibly difficult it is to launch a successful start-up software company. But he and his partners are also part of a much …

When Congress returns today (April 12) from its Easter recess, the biodiesel industry will have survived 101 days without a $1 a gallon tax credit that has been its lifeblood. Some people argue the industry …

More companies are looking to others to develop and maintain the facilities in which critical data are housed.

An annual study of the U.S. data center market released in March found that 83 percent of …