LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Carter
Chuck Spohn Follows Broadcast Career with Media & More
For 15 years, Media & More President/CEO Chuck Spohn was the man at Little Rock television stations KLRT and KASN, the market’s Fox and UPN affiliates. Spohn was vice president and general manager from 1997 to 2013, when his stations were sold and consolidation led to his launching a new career.
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Marketing Little Rock Metro Never Easier for Chamber
The chamber is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and recently unveiled a new logo and slightly altered name to mark the milestone. The chamber is just that now. No more “of Commerce.” Sleek and modern, just how chamber officials want the city to be seen.
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Made by Few Conference Moves to Bentonville; Innovation Hub To Host Open House
Made by Few, the tech conference for “makers of the Web” from Little Rock agency Few, will move to northwest Arkansas for its 2016 installment.
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FIS FinTech Set To Start at Venture Center
This spring, global banking technology services provider FIS will kick off its first fintech startup accelerator program in partnership with the Venture Center in downtown Little Rock.
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RinseWell Water Device Appears Headed to Market
The RinseWell dipper well controller from Recycled Hydro Solutions in Rogers enables restaurants and other businesses that serve food or drinks to save water.
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Tech Park Sets April 1 Target Date for Work to Begin
Renovation work on the first phase of the Little Rock Technology Park on the 400 block of Main Street is scheduled to begin on April 1, board members said Wednesday.
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Film Chronicles Spring Training in Hot Springs
“The First Boys of Spring” chronicles the story of how Hot Springs, with its famed therapeutic mineral baths, became a home for spring training from the 1880s through the 1930s.
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Virtual Reality Opens Brave New Worlds At UALR
Carolina Cruz-Neira’s visualization technology lab in the Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a playground for the imagination. And the virtual reality that unfolds within it is helping envision better companies and cities — both modern and ancient — and even train better medical students.
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Kim Lane Moves from AMP, AY to Innovation Hub
Kim Lane is the new director of digital and entrepreneurial programming for the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub.
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Jacksonville Mayor: Millage Vote a ‘Game Changer’
Jacksonville’s new high school should be open by the fall 2019, thanks to voters who on Tuesday approved a 7.6 mill property tax increase to fund facilities.
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Tech Park Talks Timeline with KATV; Mary Good to Step Down
Sinclair Broadcasting will need at least three years to move its Little Rock ABC affiliate, KATV Channel 7, from its building at Main and Fourth, Little Rock Technology Park Director Brent Birch told board members Wednesday.
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Tech Park Closes on Phase 1 Properties
Renovation for the first phase of the planned Little Rock Technology Park is expected to begin in April after tech park board members on Monday signed closing documents to purchase properties along Main Street.
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UALR Helping Defuse Terrorism Recruitment
Perpetrators of violent extremism successfully recruit potential members through social media, and a campaign including a team from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is underway to counter their efforts.
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YES Competition Recognizes Top Student Entrepreneurs
The 2016 Youth Entrepreur Showcase brought together the top 25 student teams, representing students in grades 5-8, for the competition’s Expo Day.
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Spencer Jones’ LineGard Med Adds Vance Clement as COO
LineGard Med, the medical device startup from Little Rock entrepreneur Spencer Jones, has added Vance Clement of Fayetteville’s BlueInGreen as its chief operating officer, the company announced.
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As Expected, Most Hog Football Tickets Going Up
As expected, most Fayetteville tickets to Arkansas Razorback football games are going up in price, but ticket prices for the Hogs’ one Little Rock game per year are going down, the University of Arkansas announced Tuesday.
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E-Z Mart CEO Sonja Hubbard Appointed to Chair Arkansas Research Alliance
The Arkansas Research Alliance has named Sonja Hubbard, president and CEO of Texarkana’s E-Z Mart Stores Inc., chairman of its board of directors and added four new board members.
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Metova Acquires New Tech
Metova, a tech services and app development firm with offices in Conway, Cabot and Fayetteville, announced that it had purchased Camber Corp.’s Cyber Operations Enhanced Network & Training Simulator and SLAM-R Cyber Range technology for an undisclosed price.
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Stand-alone Acxiom IT Rebrands as Ensono
Ensono is based in suburban Chicago, where Acxiom’s IT division was based, and employs around 700 workers in all, 350 at its headquarters. But roughly 150 employees, transitioned from Acxiom, work at its Conway data center.
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StudioMAIN Developing LR Financial Quarter
Aiming to help downtown revitalization reach its true potential, a nonprofit group called StudioMAIN has unveiled plans to market an area of downtown it’s calling the Financial Quarter.
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