Former presidential candidate and Forbes Media Chairman Steve Forbes will kick off a new webcast series presented by Arkansas Business next month featuring authors, entrepreneurs and key leaders in business and sports. read more >
Ritter Communications of Jonesboro invests $2.8 million to bring high-speed fiber internet plus voice, cloud, networking and TV products and services to business customers in Pine Bluff. read more >
I never imagined that I would experience a bigger news story than 9/11, which killed 2,977 Americans in a single day. But COVID-19, a disease few of us had heard of at this time last year, has killed 100 times as many in less than a year, and sometimes more on a single day. read more >
Arkansas Business asked industry leaders to share their expectations for 2021, both before and after the coronavirus vaccine is widely available. Here’s what they said. read more >
High times and low moments noted from Arkansas Business subjects in 2020. read more >
They said it, we only quoted them. Here are some of the best things said in 2020. read more >
Legends in Arkansas died this year, ranging from the state’s best-known writer to the father of the modern bass boat to the founder of what became the state’s largest real estate company to a “titan of the steel industry.” read more >
While the coronavirus pandemic colored just about every news story of 2020, Arkansas Business readers found plenty of other reports worth clicking on this year. read more >
If you have the luxury of Abundance, perhaps you’ll take time to remember — “at this festive season of the year”— the many who feel keen Want, even in this great and generous nation. read more >
Retired Dumas Clarion editor/owner Charlotte Schexnayder died Dec. 11 at just shy of 97 years. Dennis Schick, former APA executive director, died Dec. 15. read more >
D.J. Burrows has been named controller of Washington Regional Medical System in Fayetteville. read more >
Jason Hansen has been elected to the National Cable Television Cooperative board. read more >
Dr. Joe Thompson is responsible for developing health policy, research activities and programs that promote better health and health care in Arkansas. read more >
The companies appearing on this list were selected by the thousands of busy employees, employers, executives, movers and shakers whose occupations lead them to use the services listed. In other words, the experts have spoken. read more >
Ten states on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of “anti-competitive conduct" in the online advertising industry, including a deal to manipulate sales with rival Facebook. read more >
Billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist Johnelle Hunt will be recognized as the Legacy of Leadership Award winner as part of the 33rd Annual Arkansas Business of the Year ceremony. read more >
Liz Caldwell, communications chief at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, is retiring at the end of the year. read more >
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette gets $8 million in a right-of-way acquisition deal as the Arkansas Department of Transportation begins work on its $1 billion 30 Crossing project in metro Little Rock. read more >
At a time when political polarization is so intense that the president of the United States can raise hundreds of millions of dollars from the fact that he lost his reelection bid by 7 million votes, only one thing seems to have near-unanimous support regardless of political affiliation: regulating Facebook. read more >
Mark Rose, general manager of Channel 7, the Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate, tells Arkansas Business the move will proceed in 2021 after nearly a year of pandemic-related waiting. read more >
