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Breaking News: AOL Buys Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch

AOL has just purchased Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch. The deal was just publicly announced onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. I mentioned in my last post I almost spit out my coffee once.

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Flyover Geeks Traffic is up, WAY Up! Thanks Flyover Country!

Flyover Geeks launched just over a month ago and the response to what we are doing has been fantastic. For awhile, everyday my first stop since launch was Google Analytics.

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Playing Nice

Being a Tech startup reporting on Tech startups has put me in a unique situation; as Flyover Geeks grows I am becoming privy to more and more confidential information and.

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Mike Evans of Grubhub schools Lean Startup crowd

Last night Bernhard Kappe of Pathfinder Development hosted a Lean Startup event in the office of the Illinois Technology Alliance. Kappe is the Chicago organizer of the Lean Startup Circle,.

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Storage by the Box is storage without leaving Home

Entrepreneur founder of Storage by the Box Phil Murphy hit upon his business idea after discussing a problem with friends of his who just didn’t have enough room for their.

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More Great Stuff on “I Am 4 Kids”

Yesterday Flyover Geeks introduced you to the non-profit I Am 4 Kids and in addition to having the story run here on Flyover Geeks I also had it run in.

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Startup “I Am 4 Kids” snags NFL Superbowl Sponsorship

Entrepreneur Mark Papadas had his “A-HA!” moment in bed one night, unable to sleep. “Like a lot of people, I was looking for work in 2008 after a career opportunity.

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Interview with Fred Hoch of Illinois Technology Association (ITA)

Recently I sat down to talk to Fred Hoch, President of the Illinois Technology Association to discuss the organization’s short yet successfully history and the state of the technology scene.

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“Return on Engagement” by Tim Frick gets it right

Tim Frick is the author of ‘Return on Engagement’ and the founder of Chicago based agency Mightybytes, which just won an ‘Award of Excellence’ from the 16th Annual Communication Awards..

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Watch out Twitter, PingGadget Is Coming For You

PingGadget hit my radar last week and I immediately thought to myself, “Oh great, a twitter clone that isn’t Twitter but wants to be. Lame.” Being dedicated to reporting on all the tech news in Flyover Country requires me to investigate and report on every story that I think would interest our readers and so I checked out PingGadget just to see what, exactly, made them think they could take on twitter.

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