The Iowa Utilities Board is considering regulations around electric vehicle charging stations after Alliant Energy protested the Iowa 80 Truckstop’s plans to offer stations, reports the Midwest Energy News Network. Under the Iowa 80 Truckstop’s proposal, customers would be charged for each kilowatt hour put into a vehicle; Alliant Energy, the truckstop’s electric utility, claims […]
Des Moines-based RosterApps, a provider of airline ground crew scheduling software, has been acquired by Ohio company ARCOS LLC, reports Silicon Prairie News. ARCOS will retain RosterApps’ Iowa office and employees. The acquisition will combine RosterApps’ software-as-a-service airline platform with ARCOS resource management to fully automate scheduling, shift-trading, callout and track of flight and ground […]
Ann Torry, vice president of marketing at Des Moines firm BirdDogHR, has been named to the SaaS (software as a service) Report’s 2018 Top Women Leaders in SaaS, BirdDogHR announced Tuesday. Torry, who joined BirdDogHR in 2013, is one of 50 women named out of more than 3,500 nominations.
Rantizo, Inc.: $500,000, completed in October. Based in Iowa City. Participating: Innova Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee).
Reuters: Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced today that it would grant about $25 million globally next year to humanitarian and environmental projects seeking to use artificial intelligence to speed up and broaden their efforts. The “AI Impact Challenge” is meant to inspire organizations to ask Google for help in machine learning, a form of AI in […]
One-day programming camp GirlsCode++ returns to NewBoCo in Cedar Rapids on Nov. 17, NewBoCo announced on Tuesday. The beginning group, aimed at female students in grades 8-12, will learn HTML and CSS to build their own website. Girls with prior experience may choose to add JavaScript in an advanced group. The camp will also discuss […]
The Greater Des Moines Partnership and Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) will launch Code DSM, a 15-week STEM programming academy, beginning January 2019. An information session for those interested in enrolling is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 15 from 5:30-7 p.m. at DMACC’s Urban Campus Building 1, Room 126, the partnership announced Monday. Students in […]
Coralville company IDx, the first FDA-cleared autonomous AI diagnostic system, announced a new agreement with ophthalmic device manufacturer TopCon to scale delivery of the IDx diagnostics system for market, reports the Corridor Business Journal. The agreement grants exclusive rights to IDx in the U.S. as the only autonomous AI company permitted to sell products with […]
Jay Nickelsen, network technology program chair at DMACC West Des Moines Campus, walks through the newly announced Microsoft Data Center Academy. Photo by Kate Hayden The fourth Microsoft Data Center Academy will open this year for students at the DMACC West Des Moines Campus, representatives from Microsoft Corp. and Des Moines Area Community College announced […]
Founder and owner Brad Dwyer is passing the reigns of social gaming studio Hatchlings to E.B. Udegraff as the new CEO, Hatchlings announced Thursday. Updegraff, previously the marketing director at Hatchlings, joined the company in early 2017 and recently coordinated the launch of Hatchlings’ new game Pretty Jigsaw Puzzles in September 2018. Dwyer will stay […]