Software solutions have become an integral part of every sector, not only for efficiency, but also to gain a competitive edge. Throw in a global pandemic, and that advantage becomes essential. read more >
BankLabs of Little Rock will graduate from this year’s FIS Fintech Accelerator in August as it adds employees and works on a new software product designed to automate agricultural lending for banks. read more >
Walmart Inc. rules Arkansas Business’ annual lists of the state’s public companies and how much their executives are paid, and it’s hard to imagine a time when that won’t be true — especially as the lists get shorter. read more >
Publicly traded marketing technology provider Inuvo Inc. of Little Rock is looking to buy with dreams of 10-figure revenue. read more >
Robby Bollinger has been named director of strategic planning at Hytrol Conveyor Co. of Jonesboro. read more >
Ronnie Sturch and Alan Pillow have been selected as new directors by the city of Jonesboro. read more >
Standard Lithium Ltd., the Canadian firm testing a promising new method of making high-quality battery ingredients from south Arkansas’ underground brine fields, adds veteran chemical-industry expert and investor Volker Berl as an independent director. read more >
Megan Crozier, chief merchant for Sam's Club, and University of Arkansas Vice Chancellor for Athletics Hunter Yurachek are among the featured speakers for the fall Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy in Bentonville. read more >
More businesses around the world are accepting cryptocurrency — or digital money — as payment, more people are using ATMs that dispense one of its best-known forms, and more of those people are baby boomers. read more >
Real gross domestic product rose in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2021. read more >
Viji Kuruvilla, vice president of quality at Lexicon in Little Rock, has been named a counselor of the American Welding Society. read more >
The Walton Family Foundation and the Excellerate Foundation commit $3 million to start a nonprofit to retrain workers for jobs in high-demand industries, starting with health care. read more >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville, seeking to further automate its distributions centers, is adding more technology from Symbotic LLC of Wilmington, Massachusetts, to its distribution centers. read more >
While Amazon says it's becoming the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, details in part of its plan involving solar projects in east Arkansas are about as clear as a dense Delta fog. read more >
President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order that will reduce the ability of employers to prevent workers from going to rival firms and remove some of the state occupational licensing requirements that make it harder to land a job. read more >
The Startup Junkie Foundation in Fayetteville and Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund GrowthX announced Wednesday a collaboration they say will expand the impact of Startup Junkie’s 2021 Fuel Accelerator Program. read more >
Arkansas can implement a range of strategies in six key areas to guide itself out of the economic harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report commissioned by the governor's Economic Recovery Task Force. read more >
Arkansas Business will honor 50 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during a live event in September at the DoubleTree Little Rock. read more >
A future disruption as severe as when a deadly winter storm overwhelmed Texas’ power supply appears far less likely in Arkansas. read more >
Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, invests in food robotics company Soft Robotics Inc. of Bedford, Massachusetts. read more >
