The winner of the contest, "Does this make my heart look big?", will receive a new MacBook Air laptop and will have his or her video featured on the "Give to the Max Day" homepage in November.
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The Minneapolis company will give away key cards at the Uptown Art Fair to those who "like" its newest resort-style apartment complex on Facebook; one person's card will unlock a year of free rent that's valued at $20,000.
Mid-year data from NorthMarq shows that the vacancy rate for all property types in the Twin Cities is down, but the road to recovery still appears long and slow.
Metro Transit General Manager Brian Lamb said that if the pace keeps up, 2011 could surpass 2008 for record ridership.
According to a study by BioEnterprise, health-care start-ups in Minnesota received $88.3 million in investments in the first half of 2011, the most of any state in the region.
A fire truck by Rosenbauer America of Wyoming, Minnesota, is featured in the new action flick.
A group from South Education Center Alternative in Richfield and Chef Todd Bolton of Parasole won the Recipes For Healthy Kids Challenge, a nationwide competition launched last September as part of the Let's Move! campaign; more than 300 recipes were entered. />
James Fry, a 57-year-old man from Orono who was indicted last week for several fraud charges relating to Tom Petters' multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, has reportedly pleaded not guilty.
Ninja Metrics has developed software that is aimed at helping online game creators identify players' psycho-social motivations and take action to help ensure enhanced user experience.
The Minnetonka-based health insurer points out that rural areas face more challenges in receiving high-quality health care, but it says that increased use of technology and other solutions could help better serve less-populated areas.
Between January and Wednesday, $9 million of the nearly $16 million available in 2011 credits had been allocated to investors that have funneled money to Minnesota companies; the angel tax credit program coordinator thinks the entire allotment of state money will be gone by year's end.
Hackathons will bring together creative thinkers each week at CoCo's new Minneapolis location to glean ideas from one another and stay on the cutting edge of digital technology-while also attempting to find solutions to real-world problems.
Enventis said that its new fiber-optic network will expand high-speed Internet access in rural parts of the state-allowing for economic development opportunities, increased adoption of telemedicine, and better connections to state and local government offices.
Tony Hayward, the top executive at BP during the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, may be heading to northern Minnesota to oversee safety at the proposed PolyMet mine.
Derrick Lance is charged for his alleged role in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme involving 57 properties. Lindsey Rae Loyear, meanwhile, was charged on Friday for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme involving the Cloud 9 Sky Flats development in Minnetonka.
The Moorhead-based co-op and the union representing its workers can't agree on a new labor contract-and the company says that it will lock out workers if an agreement isn't reached by Monday.