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 >
E-commerce company RichContext in Rogers recently held a virtual launch for its new product: Hyphen, a digital platform that’s been in the works for a year. read more >
Labscoop — an online marketplace like Amazon, but for research, clinical and industrial labs in many industries — has been “hyper-focused” on helping hospitals and other organizations procure laboratory supplies they need to fight the spread of COVID-19. read more >
For casual users, bombers are an inconvenience. For businesses holding more virtual meetings amid the pandemic, they could be alarming if company teams share confidential or proprietary information in meetings. read more >
Arkansas ranks 48th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of how easy it is to work from home, now that the coronavirus pandemic has forced many workers into that arrangement. read more >
What sets this year’s Fuel Accelerator apart from accelerator programs across the state is that it focuses on sales instead of product development, with a top goal being the establishment of pilot projects that the accelerator companies and Arkansas companies can launch together. 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 >
Field Agent is the first company in Arkansas to be named an Endeavor Entrepreneur, a designation that gives it access to global mentorship, programming and investment. read more >
NOWDiagnostics of Springdale has taken seven of its products to the European market and attracted $64 million in investment since it was founded in 2014 by Chairman Jeremy Wilson. read more >
Inuvo Inc. expects to report on Feb. 13 that its new product, IntentKey, generated $8.5 million in revenue in its first fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31. read more >
LawnStarter of Austin, Texas, which markets itself as “Uber for lawn care,” has received a $10.5 million investment from Edison Partners of Princeton, New Jersey, and will use the infusion to offer additional services in about 20 handpicked markets, including Little Rock. read more >
Visiting Angels of Central Arkansas in Little Rock has a new offering: “Constant Companion,” a voice-controlled virtual assistant. read more >
As of third-quarter 2019, Facebook, the biggest social network worldwide, had 2.45 billion monthly active users. Active users are those who have logged in to Facebook during the last 30 days. read more >
The sixth annual Arkansas Bioinformatics Consortium conference is set for Feb. 10-11 at the Wyndham Riverfront in North Little Rock. Its theme is “Artificial Intelligence in Arkansas.” read more >
