Relax in the Great Outdoors at Kansas City Airport Marriott

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Experience the newly renovated Grand Pavilion when you stay at the Kansas City Airport Marriott. The hotel in Kansas City, Missouri , recently finished construction ...
Google Has Started Laying Fiber For Super-Fast Internet In Kansas City

Here comes Google Fiber.
Tribute | Floyd H. Love Jr. was ‘just a beautiful person’

Who: Floyd Henry Love Jr., 69, of Kansas City.
Florida lawmaker seeks to keep FAA facility out of KC

Pity Flagler County, Fla. The county bordering the Atlantic about 75 miles south of Jacksonville has Florida’s highest unemployment rate at 13.9 percent, vs. 7.3 percent in the Kansas City area. Now Kansas City wants to grab one of its prime economic assets, the Federal Aviation Administration’s Management Training and Conference Center.
BATS Exchange Receives SEC Approval for Innovative Market Maker Program

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BATS Global Markets, a global operator of stock and options markets, today announced it had received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Google Begins Fiber Internet Construction In Kansas City

After months of waiting, Google is now beginning construction of their super fast Internet service in Kansas City. Announced today on the Google Fiber Blog, Kevin Lo said that they will be taking thousands of cables and stretching them across …
Turnkey Internet capitalizes on Google's Kansas City fiber move by purchasing KCNet

Google ( Nasdaq: GOOG ) may have yet to complete its fiber network roll out in Kansas City, but Albany, N.Y.-based Turnkey Internet thinks it will have a chance to compete for business customers by purchasing KCNet. Neither company would reveal the terms of the acquisition. With KCNet, an ISP that provides Web hosting services, dialup and broadband Internet connectivity, Turnkey will be able to ...
CoSentry Selects the Kansas City Area for New $32M Data Center

LENEXA, Kan., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology service provider CoSentry will build a new $31.6 million data center in Lenexa, Kan., part of the Greater Kansas City area , creating more than 60 ...
Google 'Ready to Lay Fiber' in Kansas City

Google's grand fiber network experiment is now one step closer to becoming a reality as the company announced that it is "ready to lay fiber" in Kansas City, Kan.
Google Begins Building 1-Gigabit Internet Service in Kansas City

Google breaks ground today on the super-fast fiber optic network it plans to build for the lucky residents of Kansas City, Kan. They'll get a 1 gigabit-per-second Internet connection, which will offer downloads 100 times faster than what most Americans get. Uploads will be a thousand times faster than average. Kansas City won this privilege over 1,100 other cities in March 2011. Since then ...