The DriveScribe mobile application blocks incoming calls, e-mails, and text messages while a vehicle is in operation; provides voice commands; and calculates a "safe driving score" after each trip; among other functions.
Technology
Eden Prairie resident Robert Grogan developed a smartphone application that finds property rights, solar energy potential, and oil and gas lease statuses for entrepreneurs looking to develop new forms of energy.
Google Chairman Erik Schmidt on Wednesday praised the Twin Cities' culture of entrepreneurship as he toured "co-working" firm CoCo.
The company, which in April announced plans to hire 450 workers at its new Minnetonka facility, now intends to add 150 jobs in St. Paul.
Best Buy said Monday that it will close its 11 big-box stores in the United Kingdom and also pay about $1.3 billion to buy out the Carphone Warehouse Group's stake in Best Buy's U.S. mobile phone business.
The new "Delta Away We Go" app allows Facebook users to plan a trip, invite their friends, discuss details, and purchase plane tickets without ever leaving the social-networking site.
Minnesota's manufacturers are having a difficult time finding qualified workers to fill open positions; meanwhile, there has been an uptick in demand for IT workers in Minnesota and across the country, according to several recent reports.
Harvey Mackay gets in touch with the social media age.
Microsoft’s gaming technology hands marketers a cool new tool to play with.
Apex Print Technologies’ electronic billing software is helping health care clients cut costs and increase cash flow.
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A study reports that Minnesota lost 2,900 high-tech positions in 2010-a 2.3 percent drop in jobs compared to 2009 and more severe than the 2 percent drop nationwide.
Fast-growing Datalink bought Midwave Corporation in a deal that likely marks the ramping up of acquisitions by the company-which reportedly has plans to make one every 12 to 18 months.
Best Buy will sell Amazon's Kindle Fire, a new tablet that will cost $199 and is expected to compete with Apple's popular iPad device.
A federal jury also held Medtronic liable for $660,000 in damages to NuVasive for infringing on one of the company's patents.
Regulators want more information from Kips Bay Medical before allowing the company to conduct a U.S. clinical trial for its medical device; the device is currently being sold in six countries and has been implanted in roughly 250 patients.
Devices from Minnesota companies that save patients and hospitals money while improving outcomes and recovery times.
Proto Labs is offering discounted prototyping and short-run production services to two companies through its "Cool Idea!" program-one product comes from a local company that hopes to change how the life sciences industry stores tissue samples, the other from a Pennsylvania inventor who designed a sander that vacuums drywall dust.