Business & Tech

Do all those reviews on sites like Yelp or TripAdvisor really matter for small businesses? 

Good ad campaigns often have high profile spokespeople, and now so does a campaign to promote Kansas products.

The tag line is From the Land of Kansas, and this weekend Governor Sam Brownback was in Kansas City, Kansas to introduce  the  big name that will be behind this campaign - Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson .                                      

It’s too early for people in the Kansas City area to worry about further loss of jobs at Sprint, as executives sort through a higher price offer from a second potential buyer.  At least one analyst says the chief question is, whether Dish Network will make one or more attempts to outbid Toyko-based SoftBank Corporation.

As Overland Park-based Sprint is working to consummate selling 70 percent of its assets to SoftBank, Dish has boosted the ante by some $5.5 billion. The Dish offer is $25.5 billion. The Softbank offer is $20 billion.

Satellite TV distributor Dish Network has offered to buy telecom giant Sprint Nextel Corp. in a $25.5 billion deal, a move that could derail a similar offer by the Japanese phone company SoftBank.

Dish says that it has offered $17.3 billion in cash and $8.2 billion in stock for Sprint. After the news was announced on Monday, Sprint's stock jumped 15 percent in pre-market trading, according to The Associated Press.