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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp introduced a bill today that would use $1.2 million in federal dollars to boost startups in rural areas across the country. The bill,…

On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, the winners of North Dakota State University’s Innovation Challenge 2016 were announced, winning a total of $27,000 in cash prizes.   The student projects were…

The phone-in-a-bowl technique is well known among smartphone owners and music lovers. It’s a way to augment the sound from tiny phone speakers – but not by much. John Daly,…

An online game launched last week could help the people of Fargo save millions in energy conservation, according to NDSU professor Malini Srivastava. Srivastava is leading a project called efargo,…

Arthur Ventures, a Fargo-based venture capital firm, led a $4 million Series A round for Protenus, a healthcare startup based in Baltimore, Maryland. The partnership, announced on Feb. 16, is…

Today, Feb. 26, Fargo-made video game On My Own launched on the online computer gaming platform Steam. The game, a 2D woodland survival game featuring a philosophical backpacker, was created…

Drone industry leaders from around the world are beginning to plant stakes in North Dakota’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) industry. At yesterday’s UAS Industry Day by the North Dakota Department…

On Feb. 9, we announced a new incentive for Giving Heart’s Day designed in collaboration between Emerging Prairie and Impact Foundation. The incentive challenged local tech startups to get 100%…

Intelligent InSites, Fargo-based provider of healthcare software, has hired on a new chief technology officer, Morgan Korn, to replace former CTO and co-founder Trevor Gruby. Korn started working with InSites…

For the fourth year in a row, Startup Weekend is coming to Fargo. You may have heard the buzz, the distant tales of sleepless nights, 54 hours of work, of…