Northwest Arkansas Robotics Center Trains Future Workers
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Robotics Training Center in Fayetteville is working to create the largest certified robotics-skilled workforce in the state’s history. read more >
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Update: Tech After Five Lands in Little Rock
The Arkansas Center for Data Sciences is hosting monthly Tech After Five events in Little Rock. read more >
SBS CyberSecurity, Acxiom Work to Close Cybersecurity Gender Gap
Two companies in Arkansas are working to close the gender gap in cybersecurity — a gap that has always existed on a national scale — and they say exposing young girls to the growing field is the key to getting that done. read more >
First Electric Cooperative’s Neighborly Lesson In Home Automation
First Electric Cooperative in Jacksonville has nearly finished upgrading a member’s home with automation technology to increase energy efficiency. read more >
Innovation Hub Growing in Pine Bluff
Go Forward Pine Bluff’s innovation hub, The Generator, is in for a busy September. Mildred Franco, executive director of The Generator, hopes renovations will begin then on its physical location: the three-story building formerly known as the Merrill Civic Center. read more >
Washington Tech Firm Opens Two NWA Offices
Affirma Consulting of Bellevue, Washington, has opened two offices in northwest Arkansas this year, its National Engineering Center of Excellence in downtown Fayetteville and a NetSuite operation in Bentonville read more >
Arkansas Center for Data Sciences Focuses on Jobs, Competition
The mission of the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences is twofold: to narrow the gap between open technology jobs in the state and the talent available to fill them, and to help existing businesses use data analytics to better compete. read more >
AEDC Helping Companies Combat Cybercrime
The Arkansas Economic Development Commission is coordinating cybersecurity assessments and providing cybersecurity training to help employers square off against cybercrime, because falling prey to it can cause them to fold or lose big bucks. read more >
Little Rock Startup Set to Sell Speed-Torque
Vascugenix, a Little Rock startup run mostly by students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, plans to bring its medical device for emergency heart surgeries to market in late August or early September. read more >
Comcast: Rural Broadband Must Make Business Sense
Pat Ulrich lives in a rural Pulaski County subdivision that has been waiting more than 15 years for broadband internet, but Comcast wants nearly $50,000 to run a cable to her area. read more >
Magna IV Enhances USPS 'Informed Delivery' to Get Results
Magna IV of Little Rock is helping its direct mail clients get more bang for their buck with “Informed Delivery,” a service offered free by the U.S. Postal Service to both consumers and mailers like Magna IV. read more >
Arkansas' 3E Software Picked for Accelerator
3E Software Inc. of Springdale is one of 10 companies, and the only one from Arkansas, chosen to participate in the inaugural ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator. read more >
Spektron Using AI to Design Drugs
Spektron Systems of Little Rock is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to speed up drug discovery in a process that involves designing a new molecule that could be further developed into a new drug. read more >
New Product for RaftUp Gives Boaters Reservations
RaftUp Technologies of Little Rock expects to introduce its new product, an online marketplace for outdoor recreation-related reservations and rentals, on Jan. 22 at the Little Rock Technology Park. read more >
Bill Tracking App LobbyUp Expands to 14 States
LobbyUp, a legislative bill tracking company headquartered in Conway, completed a $750,000 expansion to 14 states on Nov. 6. It wasn’t planning an Election Day stunt; the company simply missed its Nov. 1 goal by a hair. read more >
Movista Growing With $12M Infusion
Movista Inc. of Bentonville will strengthen its leadership team, invest in innovation and next-generation technology and form a sales and marketing arm that will also be based in Bentonville — all with a recent $12 million investment from Level Equity of New York. read more >
Gas Pos Relocates to North Little Rock
Gas Pos, a graduate of the 2018 Venture Center FinTech Accelerator in Little Rock, recently relocated its headquarters to North Little Rock from Birmingham, Alabama, and announced that it will create 30 tech jobs. read more >
BioVentures Boot Camp Wins National Recognition
The Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp run by BioVentures recently won a national award, the second-place Innovations Research & Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. read more >
MISO Supports Cybersecurity Education with Philander Smith
Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc. of Carmel, Indiana, recently partnered with Philander Smith College in Little Rock to develop a curriculum for the school’s new cybersecurity program, which will award certifications and two-year and four-year degrees. read more >
Fayetteville Company Scores UAMS Opioid Abuse Predictor
TrestleTree LLC of Fayetteville has purchased the rights to a digital tool that determines the level of risk for opioid abuse and addiction that patients face before their first opioid prescription is written. read more >
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