Ritter Communications of Jonesboro says that Grain Management, a private equity company, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the business as Ritter looks to expand.
HealthTech Arkansas of Little Rock announced last week the six startup companies selected for its accelerator program.
Arkansas Tech University has a new cybersecurity lab on the first floor of Corley Hall on its campus in Russellville.
Arkansas' unemployment rate dropped by one-tenth of a percentage point in July, to 3.4% from 3.5% in June. read more >
Robert Eoff, Ph.D., has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his work at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on DNA damage, cell replication and its implications for diseases like dementia, ALS and cancer. read more >
Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. read more >
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been awarded a $763,971 National Institutes of Health grant that will fund the purchase of biomedical research equipment with new capabilities unavailable elsewhere in the state. read more >
Brian Walker, Ph.D., with the Myeloma Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $542,486, three-year grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to look at changes in the DNA sequence that affects the development and advancement of multiple myeloma. read more >
The sale of west Little Rock apartment developments starts this week's procession of million-dollar real estate transactions, followed by a Searcy hotel and three Sherwood properties. read more >
The Venture Center says it's launching a new offering in partnership with the Little Rock Regional Chamber. read more >
High-speed broadband has become almost as essential to civilized living as electricity or safe drinking water, products provided for the most part by public utilities, products that, with occasional exceptions, are provided relatively cheaply and reliably. read more >
It's been almost two years since Arkansas Business listed the state's top stockholders based on the value of publicly disclosed stock. Since then, the Walton family's fortune — the part disclosed publicly — has increased by more than $20 billion. read more >
James Bright took over as general manager of the Texarkana Gazette just five months ago, but don't call the paper his new baby. read more >
The unemployment rates in most of Arkansas' metro areas continued to move downward or stay stable in June, with Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Little Rock and Texarkana seeing declines. read more >
Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter Hussman has staked his paper's future on readers taking the iPad path to daily news. That change in our reading habits have coincided with another sign of the apocalypse for daily papers, the $1.4 billion merger of America's two largest newspaper chains, Gannett and GateHouse. read more >
Windstream Holdings Inc. of Little Rock reported second-quarter results, boasting growth in consumer broadband subscribers but declining to release net income and revenue figures under generally accepted accounting principles. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday announced "Arkansas Rural Connect," a new $25 million grant program within the Arkansas State Broadband Office he established last month. read more >
The number of publicly traded companies in Arkansas is stable this year thanks to a couple of small IPOs and the federal government shutdown late last year, and Walmart executives continue to dominate the list of highest paid executives. read more >
ConversionPoint Technologies Inc. of Newport Beach, California, announced last fall that it would pay $75 million for the Little Rock marketing company. But the deal unraveled in June. read more >
Charles Morgan, the chairman and CEO of First Orion, says the character of Arkansas' workforce is a huge advantage for a tech company. read more >
Zekelman Industries announced Tuesday that it will build the world's largest continuous ERW tube mill in Blytheville on property adjacent to its existing Atlas Tube mill, which provides structural support for buildings. read more >
U.S. business economists expect economic growth to slow this year, and a rising proportion of them think corporate sales and profits will decline. read more >
Affirma Consulting of Bellevue, Washington, has opened two offices in northwest Arkansas this year, its National Engineering Center of Excellence in downtown Fayetteville and a NetSuite operation in Bentonville read more >
The 50th anniversary of landing a man on the moon turned our thoughts back to the 1960s. It was a simpler time when mutually assured destruction provided comfort during the Cold War. read more >
Arkansas cities, counties and school districts are taking advantage of new financing to save money by going solar. read more >
Safe Foods Corp. President Bruce Smith has announced his retirement after 18 years of serving on the company's executive team. read more >
Health and fitness technology services provider ABC Financial Services LLC announced Thursday a series of leadership appointments, including naming President Bill Davis its CEO. read more >
Global financial services company FIS of Jacksonville, Florida, and the state will continue to sponsor the Fintech Accelerator next year. read more >
Simmons Bank names Alejandro "Alex" Carriles executive vice president and chief digital officer. read more >
Lockheed Martin, a mainstay of South Arkansas' defense industry, will be building missile launchers and hardware in East Camden under a half-billion contract to supply the U.S. Army and Marines, as well as the militaries of Poland and Romania. read more >
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Arkansas has been awarded a five-year, $4.63 million National Science Foundation grant to recruit, educate and train cybersecurity professionals. read more >
The Arkansas Research Alliance announces that Douglas Hutchings has been named director of the ARA Academy of Scholars & Fellows, effective July 1. read more >
Arkansas Business will honor more than 40 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during an awards luncheon in September. read more >
