by - January 25, 2018 2:33 pm
Use of the tech-enabled guest rental service Airbnb continued to increase this past year in Arkansas, according to the company, which said it logged about 78,400 guest arrivals and brought…
by - January 24, 2018 2:17 pm
The Walton Family Foundation has entered into a one-year partnership with the Minneapolis-based nonprofit, real estate developer and property manager Artspace to assess the arts community and market in Northwest…
by - January 24, 2018 1:01 pm
A 20-week accelerator program is being offered to tech-enabled Arkansas businesses this spring, through a partnership with The Conductor, Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), Startup Junkie Consulting and Metova. The…
by - January 22, 2018 6:31 pm
Medical technology company SFC Fluidics has been awarded a matching grant from JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) to fund development of a disposable, miniaturized automated insulin delivery (AID) device. Under…
by - January 15, 2018 3:30 pm
Hotel construction in Arkansas rose 14% between December 2016 and December 2017, indicating a departure from a trend of decline in hotel construction nationwide, according to the hospitality industry statistics…
by - January 9, 2018 2:25 pm
The impact of machine learning, virtual reality, big data and the Internet of things will continue to expand in 2018 for Arkansas businesses, said Michael Paladino, chief technology officer at…
by - January 8, 2018 1:45 pm
Former University of Arkansas economist Kathy Deck has had a few months to settle into her new role as director of community and economic research partnerships at the University of…
by - January 5, 2018 4:01 pm
Service-related careers, especially in healthcare, show the most promise for growth nationwide and in Arkansas during the next few years, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor and…
by - December 21, 2017 11:30 am
Arkansas’ craft beer industry doubled in size between 2014 and 2016, but a Northwest Arkansas brewer said there is still room to grow, and that momentum could be helped by…
by - December 20, 2017 11:16 am
Widely publicized Silicon Valley success stories often used as recruiting tools abroad perpetuate an unproven belief that foreign-born workers have reaped outsized benefits from the skyrocketing information technology industry in…
by - December 19, 2017 4:51 pm
The mobile app-based rental and home owners’ insurance carrier Lemonade of New York City can now do business in Arkansas, according to a statement from Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr….
by - December 14, 2017 9:59 am
Mervin Jebaraj has been named director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business in Fayetteville. He will officially…
by - December 14, 2017 7:59 am
Three months after Louisville, Ky.-based Generation Tux purchased for $25 million the online tuxedo rental startup Menguin, headquartered in Fayetteville at the time, co-founder Justin Delaney said the company is…
by - December 13, 2017 2:04 pm
Americans spent $945 billion on tourism in the third quarter, and indirect, tourism-related spending totaled $1.6 trillion, according to a report published Wednesday (Dec. 13) by the U.S. Department of…
by - December 10, 2017 5:11 pm
The STEM education movement, a push for K-12 educators to put more focus on science, technology, engineering and math, has in recent years yielded some ground to the STEAM effort,…
by - December 8, 2017 2:29 pm
Little Rock-based agriculture tech startup Grainster on Thursday (Dec. 7) was named the U.S. winner in the Best Idea – One to Watch category of the 2017 Talent Unleashed Awards…
by - December 5, 2017 4:40 pm
Advocates for the arts in K-12 education say individuals should keep bringing forward the issue at both the state and district levels. A focus on standardized testing in the past…
by - December 4, 2017 7:27 pm
With design costs covered by the Walton Family Foundation, the city of Springdale is now turning to its residents to approve funding to build a new criminal justice facility downtown…
by - December 4, 2017 1:03 pm
Arkansas now has an estimated 80,400 women-owned businesses employing 55,700 staff and contributing $9.5 billion in revenue to the state economy, according to an American Express OPEN report that analyzes…
by - December 1, 2017 2:41 pm
CryoFactor, a health and wellness company in Fayetteville, is making a move into Bentonville through a partnership with Bentonville Family Chiropractic. CryoFactor offers whole-body cryotherapy, where an individual receiving treatment…
