Minnov8 Gang 216 – Passwords? We won’t need no stinkin’ passwords!

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week). Music: Don't Walk Away from Smoke Ring Days. From the podsafe Music Alley. Discussed during the show… Minnesota Stories Spark is crushing it on Kickstarter Phil's First … [Read more...]

What Comes First in Fargo – the #MidwestMobileSummit or the Spring Floods?

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They're both coming soon! And they may actually be arriving about the same time. But, no worries, the first-year Midwest Mobile Summit will be held April 28-29 in downtown Fargo ND, which I'm told is a pretty safe area of town from the rising waters that come every spring to … [Read more...]

W3i Rebrands, Launches Native Ad Platform for App Devs, Adds Trip Hawkins as Senior Advisor

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W3i, one of Minnesota's largest and fastest-growing Internet companies, with headquarters in St. Cloud and offices in Minneapolis and San Francisco, just made a major announcement today.  The company has changed its name to NativeX and completely rebranded around a new … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 205 – Look out for the bus Sergey!

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Minnesota continues on its path toward technology development, use, engagement and sales. Mobile is the bright spot and we have on Justin Grammens, a software architect, co-Founder and VP, Engineering of Code 42 Software, as well as an advisor at Recursive Awesome and … [Read more...]

Mobile March 2013 Agenda Announced

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The final agenda for Mobile March 2013 has been released for the 4th annual conference. Keynoted by Bob Schukai, Global Head of Mobile Technology at Thomson Reuters, the event also features multiple tracks including Mobile Strategy, Mobile Business, Mobile Development and … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 204 – No Signal in the Big House

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Changing one's profile picture anywhere invites Photoshopping abuse and Phil Wilson defaces Steve's new profile pic. He is, of course, kindly returning the 'favor' of Steve basically defacing just about any image of Phil he can find, including a cheesy attempt at humor with … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang #198 – The Future Accelerates

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Ray Kurzweil, author, inventor, futurist, and now a director of engineering at Google, has his eyes and mind on the future and one thing has been clear in everything he's written, spoken about and focused on: We are living in a time of accelerating change and that change is … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang 196 – Big, Disruptive Innovations

The Gang talks about Instagram, Best Buy, Kodak and other top stories and then has a great conversation with Kim Garretson, a founding partner of Ovative/Group and the leader of their Emerging Innovation practice area. Since Garretson connects venture capital firms and … [Read more...]

Minnov8 Gang #195 – Apocalypse NOT!

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You can rest easy now: NASA says the world will not end on December 21st of this year (phew)! We've averted a calendar-driven apocalypse (how did that even start!?!) so go ahead and make plans for Christmas, New Years or whatever else you have coming up. The Gang … [Read more...]

Registration Now Open for Mobile March 2013

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The date for Mobile March, the annual Twin Cities mobile conference has been set for March 21st, 2013 at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Park. Now in its 4th year, the conference features multiple tracks with sessions on mobile app development, mobile … [Read more...]