Office Project Advances Without WeWork
by Arkansas Business Staff – 7 days ago
WeWork of New York City is no longer associated with the 230,000-SF office building, now called The Ledger, currently under construction in downtown Bentonville.
WeWork of New York City is no longer associated with the 230,000-SF office building, now called The Ledger, currently under construction in downtown Bentonville.
Arkansas Business on Monday announced 32 businesses, nonprofits and executives from around the state as finalists for its 33rd Annual Business of the Year Awards.
Andrew Levenson has been promoted to director of growth at MHP/Team SI in Little Rock.
Ritter Communications of Jonesboro recently opened its $8 million, 8,544-SF multiuser data and cloud storage facility in northeast Arkansas. read more >
An executive with Walmart Inc. of Bentonville announced in a Nov. 19 LinkedIn post that the company is acquiring the technology startup company JoyRun of Redwood City, California. read more >
University of Arkansas researchers have received a three-year, $417,000 NASA grant to study the interaction between the atmosphere and surface of Venus. read more >
Arkansas' richest family has had a good year financially. The heirs of Sam Walton own publicly traded stock valued collectively at more than $205 billion. read more >
Let another pesky woman editor encourage you to embrace the spirit of Thanksgiving this year as never before, even as we must limit the traditional togetherness — a small sacrifice by historic standards. read more >
Amber Sharp has joined FNBC Bank in a recently created role, as its senior vice president and chief information and innovation officer. read more >
Arkansas Business and the Best Companies Group last week honored 47 Arkansas companies with "Best Places to Work" awards, which honor firms that have exceptional workplace environments. read more >
J.B. Hunt CEO John Roberts and Shelley Simpson, chief commercial officer, participated in FreightWaves' virtual fall conference earlier this month and gave some color to how the company's technological pursuit led to its newfound success. read more >
The first step in addressing these risks that might happen is to consider that these risks can happen and have happened. Consideration should be given to these uncertain, remotely possible, future risks. Nothing should be off the table. read more >
Arkansas Insurance Department Commissioner Alan McClain says the industry is seeing a surge in technological innovation. read more >
The popular video-sharing app TikTok, its future in limbo since President Donald Trump tried to shut it down earlier this fall, is asking a federal court to intervene. read more >
Marketing technology provider Inuvo Inc. of Little Rock said Monday that it lost $2.4 million, or 3 cents per share, during the third quarter. read more >
Uniti Group Inc. of Little Rock swung back to a profit in the third quarter, reporting on Monday net income of $7.5 million, or 4 cents per diluted share. read more >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville is teaming up with the General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit to test driverless delivery in Arizona. read more >
The Stable of Minneapolis, Minnesota, announced Monday its acquisition of RichContext, an e-commerce technology company headquartered in Rogers. read more >
Solar businesses fear the toll as U.S. tax credits, now 26%, are set to fall to 22% in 2021 and to 10% for commercial projects only in 2022, barring policy shifts. read more >
Data Driven Partners works with businesses and nonprofit foundations to gather and formulate their important data into easy-to-read and accessible dashboards. read more >
Merritt Dake wants a role for artificial intelligence in dentistry's future, but he doesn't expect robots to be pulling teeth. read more >
James Murphy has been promoted to vice president of sales at Cisco-Eagle Inc. in Little Rock. read more >
Kristin Chacko has been promoted to vice president of technology at MHP/Team SI in Little Rock. read more >
Telehealth popularity is on the rise—in part due to a pandemic—but also because it was always going to happen. read more >
Chart Industries, a global manufacturer of engineering equipment, pays $20 million for BlueInGreen LLC, a Fayetteville water-treatment company. read more >
Windstream Holdings Inc. of Little Rock has named Rob Shanahan to its board, effective immediately. read more >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville is laying off the robots it had deployed in about 500 stores to keep tabs on what's on and not on the shelves. read more >
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration announced Monday that it will award a $650,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Startup Junkie Foundation of Fayetteville, to provide technical assistance to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in northwest Arkansas. read more >
Farmland in Lonoke County, an office building in west Little Rock, an apartment complex in downtown Little Rock, a dollar store in Roland and future industrial land in east Little Rock form this week's lineup of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Arvest Bank now owns bankrupt NanoMech's 20,000-SF headquarters and production facility at 2447 Technology Way in the wake of an Oct. 20 foreclosure sale. read more >
Arkansas' hospitals and other industries have urgent concerns for the Legislature to address in the regular session that will commence on Jan. 11, but a key piece of the hospitality industry has needs that are more urgent. read more >
The Arkansas Legislature will return to session in January but, like nearly every other part of American life, it won't quite be a return to normalcy. read more >
More than a dozen media properties operating under familiar names in Arkansas are facing scrutiny after articles in The Guardian and The New York Times revealed them as purveyors of automated reporting and slanted news financed by political operatives and corporate interests. read more >
