Tech

Fargo startup launches rTown: a mobile app for small towns

When the city of Wahpeton approached Ray Berry and his team at OmniByte Technology about building a custom mobile app for their community, they fell into a familiar predicament. The…

A mobile app for grain elevators: Meet Myriad Mobile's mAgri

Growing up on a farm in Kulm, North Dakota, Peter Schott remembers well the scale tickets picked up at grain elevators; white slips of paper clipped to the truck visor…

Blockchain and bitcoin: ‘It’s the future’

In late July, a man named Michell Abner Espinoza was released of three felony accounts of money laundering based on the fact that he was laundering bitcoin, not a traditional…

After 5 years of work, Appareo launches first certified avionics product

Appareo, a local company that specializes in designing and manufacturing electronics and software for aerospace and agriculture, announced the release of a product they call the Stratus ESG transponder this week.  Not…

Why SaaS business model may be the best choice for tech startups

Today’s guest post comes from Mike Warner. Warner has had a 40 year career spanning a broad spectrum of business startups and expansions. They range from food processing to software to pharmaceutical…

Fargo native is bringing Netflix tech to video broadcasters, and investors are taking notice

Fargo native and Y Combinator grad Jonathan Dahl has been building a startup in stealth mode for the past year, but now the word is out and investors are taking…

What Burgum's win means for the tech sector in North Dakota

On Tuesday, June 14, tech entrepreneur and former Microsoft exec Doug Burgum won the GOP nomination for governor of North Dakota, essentially sealing his spot as governor of the state.…

Getting game-y at Glitchcon 2016

Today’s piece is by Kyle Weik, Fargo local and indie game maker. He’s the co-creator of popular woodland survival game On My Own, which reached 100,000 users in under a…

Looking back at the 3 most visited websites in the world

Since the research done by US federal government in the late 1960’s, to public emergence in mid 1990’s, to over three billion people worldwide accessing web pages and communicating via…

A whole new world: Playing with 360 cameras

I was entirely unprepared for what happened after clicking what looked like a normal video. Sure, the caption stated it plain and clear: “We spent some time over the weekend…