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Allscripts Offers Up $1M For Creative Healthcare Solutions

The company has begun an Open App Challenge, which invites the creative minds of the healthcare industry to come up with effective applications that integrate into Allscripts’ electronic health records software.

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Apple’s Passbook Throws Chicago-Based Belly A Bone

Belly’s iPhone app was downloaded 50,000 times since the iOS 6 release, marking a huge week for a relatively new company that was founded in Chicago in late 2011. The company has raised $12.9 million from some of the biggest names in venture capital.

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CEC Offers Chicago Startups Chance At Free Momentum Awards Tickets

The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center is offering Chicago startups the chance at two free tickets for its upcoming Momentum Awards dinner, giving smaller companies the chance to rub shoulders with some of the city’s biggest innovators.

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LockerDome Slam Dunks St. Louis Business Of The Year Award

LockerDome, one of the fastest growing St. Louis-based startups, scored one of eight Business Of The Year awards last week. The awards were given out by the city and the St. Louis Development Corp. as part of the Business Celebration Luncheon 2012 event on October 5.

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Unbranded Designs Captures Top Prize At Lean Startup Challenge

Unbranded Designs was chosen from a group of four startups that have been participating in the Lean Startup Circle’s rigorous 14 week program to bring lean startup methodology into the core of their businesses.

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SeedCon Opens $60,000 Fast Pitch Competition

Chicago’s SeedCon startup event organized by the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago has officially opened applications for its signature fast-pitch event this week.

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Reddit Co-Founder To Visit St. Louis On Last Leg Of Internet Freedom Tour

This coming Tuesday, October 9th, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will visit both St. Louis’ Washington University and downtown startup incubator T-REx to discuss the open internet and the censorship bills that threaten the web as we know it today.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants University of Illinois Students To Choose Chicago Over Silicon Valley

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will do almost anything to keep the heavily recruited University of Illinois students from leaving the state to go work in Silicon Valley. This week, he appeared in front of a group of students at the Urbana-Champaign campus, imploring them to consider starting their careers in Chicago.

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St. Louis’ Click With Me Now, Evtron Pitch At DEMO 2012

Click With Me Now and Evtron have been hard at work showcasing their uniquely innovative technologies to the crowd of entrepreneurs and investors at this year’s DEMO conference.

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The Brandery Accelerator Showcases Third Class Of Cincinnati Startups

This week The Brandery, a Cincinnati-based startup accelerator, introduced its latest class of companies to a crowd of more than 300 during its latest demo day.

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