by admin | Dec 30, 2008 | Business
Some of the final remnants of Gateway are leaving the Sioux City area. Ted Waitt and Mike Hammond started the Gateway computer company in a northwest Iowa farmhouse back in 1985. By the late 1990s, Gateway employed over 6000 in the Sioux City metro, but Waitt...
by admin | Nov 28, 2008 | Business, Crime & Courts, Technology
Many Iowans do much of their holiday shopping online instead of in malls, but this season is the busiest time of year for internet fraud and identity thieves. Michael Barrett, information security officer at Omaha-based PayPal, says shopping online can be safe and...
by admin | Aug 21, 2008 | Politics & Government
Microsoft will build its new, half-a-billion dollar “server farm” in West Des Moines. The official announcement came during a Thursday morning news conference at the statehouse where Microsoft’s Michael Manos, the general manager of the...
by admin | Jul 1, 2008 | Business, Politics & Government
Corporate giant Microsoft plans to open a new data center in central Iowa. "It’s really great news for the state of Iowa," Governor Chet Culver says. "Fifty good jobs — high-quality, well-paying jobs; $500 million of investment with this...
by admin | Mar 5, 2007 | Politics & Government
The Iowa Senate had a cat fight tonight about big cats — about mountain lions and cougars. Western Iowa Republicans railed against a bill that would forbid the shooting of a mountain lion in Iowa unless a person’s life or property is endangered. Senator...
