Rogers’ RichContext Launches New Product
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 >
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Labscoop of Little Rock Sells COVID-19 Supplies
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 >
Virtual 'Bombing' in Zoom Meetings Preventable
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 in Working From Home
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 >
Fuel Accelerator Aims to Launch Pilot Projects
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 >
HealthTech Arkansas Partnering With PwC
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 Named Endeavor Entrepreneur
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 Makes Innovative Medical Tests
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 Touts New Product
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 Plans to Expand in Little Rock
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 and Alexa Offer Seniors an Option for Alerts
Visiting Angels of Central Arkansas in Little Rock has a new offering: “Constant Companion,” a voice-controlled virtual assistant. read more >
Facebook Dominates With 2.45 Billion Users
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 >
Conference to Focus on AI in Arkansas
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 >
InVeritas Debuts New Product
Public affairs firm InVeritas of Little Rock recently launched a new product called Global i for companies and individuals in need of comprehensive, fact-based intelligence. read more >
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 >
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 >
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