TECH

Revel’s latest pivot: Ditching all-employee ride-hail in favor of gig worker model
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 6, 2024
New York-based Revel has made a lot of pivots since initially launching in 2018 as a dockless e-moped sharing service. The BlackRock-backed startup briefly stepped

Trump takes off on TikTok
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 2, 2024
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban. Trump’s TikTok account, which

The Cadillac Optiq is an entry-level luxury EV designed to hook young buyers
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 29, 2024
Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out

Intel and others commit to building open generative AI tools for the enterprise
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 16, 2024
Can generative AI designed for the enterprise (e.g. AI that autocompletes reports, spreadsheet formulas and so on) ever be interoperable? Along with a coterie of

Startups Weekly: So are we all working from home now?
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 12, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in

Now at the top of the App Store, The Eclipse App is a great companion for Monday’s solar eclipse
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 8, 2024
A well-designed app designed to optimize your viewing of the total solar eclipse on Tuesday has surged to the top of the App Store. With

YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 4, 2024
The second half of Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort presented on Thursday, once again bringing dozens and dozens of new startups before a chunk of

Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 31, 2024
Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade later,

NewRetirement aims to shake up retirement planning with a holistic approach
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 27, 2024
When entrepreneur Stephen Chen’s mom began approaching retirement age, she was forced to borrow money from Chen — and Chen’s brother — to make ends

Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 23, 2024
Americans spent more than $144.8 billion on fishing and hunting in 2022 alone, according to a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guided