PCA Technology Solutions President and CEO Ted Clouser will be the first featured guest on Insights, a new webinar series presented by Arkansas Business.
As topics with national buzz — cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc. — find their way into college curriculums, there's still a need for old-school knowledge, a need felt by companies like Ensono, which is partnering with the University of Central Arkansas to meet its talent requirements.
Arkansas universities scramble to move their academic courses online so students can finish the current semester.
Arkansas Business is regularly updating this page with links and contact information for businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Fifty students representing 18 teams from eight Arkansas universities still competed, albeit virtually due to COVID-19 concerns, in the 20th annual Arkansas Governor's Cup competition for a $154,000 cash prize pool. read more >
Businesses can begin preparing now to apply for assistance under the federal rescue package signed last week by President Trump, but it will be about two weeks before they can turn in their paperwork. read more >
RAO Video, a 43-year fixture on Main Street in Little Rock, is going down as one of the first and last outlets in an American industry driven and eventually killed by technology. read more >
The voices of small-business owners in Arkansas betray their anxiety, even anguish approaching grief, as they fight for their future — and a future for their employees — in a world upended by a deadly pandemic. read more >
Employment in the United States is forecast to grow by 8.4 million jobs to 169.4 million jobs during the decade of 2018-28, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Or it was; the report was released months before the coronavirus pandemic caused widespread job losses. read more >
Just as it has on American life, COVID-19 is reshaping the American way of death, disrupting yet another industry as families set small graveside services, postpone memorials and in some places turn to cremation rather than burial. read more >
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down, but it is also ushering telemedicine into widespread acceptance in Arkansas. read more >
Josh McGee, the state's new chief data officer, describes what his role means for the state, and reveals how he keeps track of his passwords. read more >
Darla Yarbrough of Little Rock has been promoted to vice president of client services at the digital marketing firm iProv. read more >
As professionals – and individuals, too – adapting to the new, temporary normal, it's crucial to maintain the security of business systems and personal, private information. read more >
Arkansas Business announces the 40 honorees in this year's 40 Under 40 class, which honors people in business, nonprofits and government making a significant impact. read more >
Last year, 32 luxury homes in Pulaski County sold for $1 million or more, up from 30 in 2018. read more >
The same Fayetteville house was the most expensive home sold in northwest Arkansas in 2019 and in 2018. read more >
Saving money is good for the individual but bad for the overall economy because it reduces aggregate demand. read more >
The Singapore office of PwC, aka PricewaterhouseCoopers, and HealthTech Arkansas are working together to bring startups from Singapore to Arkansas for clinical trials and pilot projects with 11 health care providers. read more >
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette made a little history last week in covering a historic threat, the COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down normal social life in the United States and around the globe. read more >
PC Matic of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, offers free cybersecurity and remote-management tools to Arkansas schools and nonprofits as they face the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Taylor Hasley has been named executive director of the Startup Junkie Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Startup Junkie Consulting, an entrepreneurial support organization in Fayetteville. read more >
Feminine hands are everywhere in the medical marijuana and hemp industries, up and running in the state for less than a year. Their roles range from co-owning $10 million cultivation centers to staffing dispensary counters as budtenders. read more >
Erik Dees has been appointed to program manager for Milestone Leadership in Siloam Springs. read more >
Is it time for a change in your business message? Depending on the research you follow and the experiences of other organizations, you could be led to different conclusions. read more >
Janet Jones, Kimberly Smith, Elizabeth Bowles and Michele Wright encourage women business owners to work hard, be consistent — and never let their voices be silenced. read more >
Walmart US CEO John Furner and J.B. Hunt Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Shelley Simpson are among the executives scheduled to speak as the Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy expands into northwest Arkansas this fall. read more >
Eliza Gaines gets ready to take over for retiring Managing Editor David Bailey and seizing the reins as the paper plots a quick return to profitability. read more >
As of last week, Arkansas' 17 publicly traded companies had 170 directors and 32 of them were women. That's almost 19%. read more >
An affiliate of Peak Capital Partners of Provo, Utah, bought 217-unit apartment project in North Little Rock from Burkhalter FBN LLC, led by John Burkhalter. read more >
The number of women-owned businesses rose 21% to 12.9 million between 2014 and 2019, according to the “2019 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report,” published by American Express. read more >
Windstream Holdings Inc. of Little Rock says it's reached a deal with its first lien creditors and settled a lease dispute with spinoff Uniti Group Inc. of Little Rock. read more >
Tim Whitley has cookies on his mind, and not just because the Girl Scouts' sales season is winding down. read more >
