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Google will fund two temporary positions in Kansas City aimed at narrowing the digital divide, the company announced Thursday. The people hired for the…
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When Google first announced its intention to bring high-speed fiber optic cable to Kansas City, Ks., the service was supposed to help close the digital…
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The best way to visualize a school district’s Internet connection may be to compare it to a busy network of highways: First, an Internet service provider,…
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Two years ago, metro-area entrepreneurs started buying houses in the first Kansas City, Kan., neighborhood to get Google Fiber. They wanted to take…
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The Overland Park City Council will vote Monday night on a pair of plans to bring Google Fiber to the Kansas suburb, months after striking a preliminary…
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Kansas City was selected as the first place in the country to receive Google Fiber. Now that fiber networks have been established in the many communities…
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The Kansas City metro area has become home to numerous tech startups over the last few years, in part because of Google Fiber, but also because low rental…
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While Google has cast a spotlight on Kansas City that has the country excited about high speed internet, like most cities around the country, access is…
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Long before Google Fiber arrived in 2011, Kansas City has had a thriving technology sector, with cutting-edge companies like Cerner, Garmin and Sprint…
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The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Wednesday afternoon announced it would manage a fund aimed at bridging the digital divide in Kansas…
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Google announced yesterday that it’s building a new high-speed fiber-optic network -- this time in Austin, Texas. It’s been two years since the company…
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Google announced Tuesday that its Google Fiber project would be hitting Austin, Texas, next. The tech giant's blazing fast Internet service, with current rates at 1 Gpbs, is about 100 times faster than your typical cable broadband Internet service.