Thanks to a $750,000 grant awarded earlier this month, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will be one of the first institutions in the country to offer graduate certificates in cybersecurity education to high school teachers. read more >
iDatafy of Little Rock has launched its SmartResume Certified Job Talent Marketplace, designed to connect employers to white- and blue-collar job seekers who actually have the skills they’re looking for. read more >
Laravel, founded by Hot Springs native and Benton resident Taylor Otwell, is working on a new product and preparing to host its next conference, called “Laracon.” read more >
Teslar Software of Springdale provided the software used to process more than 1.3 million — more than one-fifth — of the Paycheck Protection Program loan applications that received funding this year. 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 >
As the state rushes to address the digital divide separating urban and rural Arkansans by using federal dollars for broadband infrastructure projects, another digital divide exists within urban communities. read more >
The Redpointe Group LLC of Russellville, a rare tech company with a pedigree of heavy construction, recently started offering new software built for municipalities with populations of less than 20,000. read more >
Ip3 Labs of Little Rock began doing business in March as a mobile virtual network operator, meaning it connects “internet of things” (IoT) devices to the internet by accessing multiple cell service carriers at the same time through embedded SIM cards. read more >
Unique digital assets fuel market that exploded to $2 billion in Q1 of this year. read more >
ABC Fitness Solutions of Sherwood, previously known as ABC Financial Services, recently acquired online platform Fitness BI of San Francisco and launched another platform called ABC+. read more >
Two programs based out of the same building on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus are helping transform research done in a lab into marketable technology that can generate dollars and jobs. read more >
There’s a new cybersecurity and information technology company in town, Sullivan Wright Technologies, backed by none other than Bob East. read more >
Issac.ai of Little Rock aims to jump-start due diligence for angel investors by using artificial intelligence . read more >
A 160-SF clean room for biomanufacturing is set to open this quarter or next at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, spurred by NuShores Biosciences LLC opening one of its own in west Little Rock a few months back. read more >
Ritter Communications of Jonesboro recently opened its $8 million, 8,544-SF multiuser data and cloud storage facility in northeast Arkansas. read more >
A $100 million renovation of its Little Rock building isn’t the only transformation the Arkansas Arts Center is undergoing; it’s also spending more than $500,000 to upgrade technology. read more >
The Grid Esports, an online gaming center in the works for two years, held a soft opening on Oct. 1 in Fayetteville. A VIP opening event is set for 6-9 p.m. Thursday, and a grand opening is planned for Friday-Sunday. read more >
Zuni Learning Tree of Conway recently received a $200,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education to build a new feature for its namesake online educational platform. read more >
As Lyon College in Batesville keeps its students at home this fall, the private institution is piloting remote-learning software, hardware and services provided by Apogee of Austin, Texas. read more >
Two weeks ago, Cobbler Technologies Inc. of Little Rock was listed as one of the 10 companies participating in this year’s online FIS Fintech Accelerator program, and it’s already changed its name. read more >
