by - December 17, 2017 5:57 pm
Department store retail is a business in transition and barely a month goes by without news of store closures leaving shopping malls with empty space. This year through Nov. 17,…
by - December 17, 2017 5:47 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport will add two gates to the B concourse and establish a generic gate system for them. On Dec. 13, the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority approved…
by - December 15, 2017 1:03 pm
One day after the Federal Communications Commission rolled back net neutrality rules established during President Barack Obama’s administration, critics are concerned that Internet providers will begin throttling back service as…
by - December 15, 2017 11:43 am
In an opinion delivered on Dec. 7, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined, for the first time, that pre-dispute contractual waivers of the right to a jury trial are unenforceable under…
by - December 15, 2017 10:38 am
The University of Arkansas Global Campus is offering a four-session course to teach best practices and practical, hands-on skills for flying unmanned aircraft, or drones, safely and legally. The class…
by - December 15, 2017 9:53 am
The state of Arkansas continues to commemorate the centennial of World War I with a series of events in December and 2018, in addition to new educational materials on its…
by - December 15, 2017 8:22 am
The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has awarded a multi-year contract to the software solutions unit of Little Rock-based IT service company Mainstream Technologies. The goal is to create…
by - December 14, 2017 6:40 pm
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey told an overflow audience at the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce’s 152nd annual meeting that collegiate athletics brings great “economic value” to major universities such…
by - December 14, 2017 6:16 pm
Jonesboro will have to collect a record number of hotel taxes in December if it hopes to keep pace with the number of collections in 2016. The city has collected…
by - December 14, 2017 3:06 pm
Consumers shopping in brick-and-mortar stores could see more robots at work as the cost of technology has come down and the industry struggles to find labor. Since Amazon first began…
by - December 14, 2017 2:24 pm
The 1.4 million employees of Wal-Mart Stores will soon have a new tool to help them manage their income as well as provide on-demand access to earned wages ahead of…
by - December 14, 2017 12:23 pm
Given Amazon’s strong commitment to same-day delivery service, that benefit is becoming a must-have for retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Target. On Wednesday (Dec. 14), on the heels of Wal-Mart’s…
by - December 14, 2017 11:26 am
The Arkansas Department of Health, along with other healthcare providers, has adopted new hypertension guidelines, and the new guidelines mean some patients who didn’t think they had high blood pressure…
by - December 14, 2017 11:06 am
Metova CyberCENTS, an Illinois-based network security company, will teach a five-day cyber security workshop Feb. 19-23 at the University of Arkansas Global Campus in Rogers. Participants may take the National…
by - December 14, 2017 11:04 am
Most of the utility-scale solar photovoltaic systems installed in the United States use crystalline silicon panels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between 2015 and 2016, crystalline silicon capacity…
by - December 14, 2017 10:05 am
A 6,505-square-foot commercial building in Rogers’ Scottsdale Center development recently sold for $2.8 million. The purchase price equals $430.43 per square foot. Crain Investments LP, led by Little Rock businessman…
by - December 14, 2017 10:05 am
The Federal Open Market Committee increased the federal funds target rate by 0.25% to a range of 1.25% to 1.5%. The committee also released projections on the economy and federal…
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 9:33 am
Editor’s note: Because of circumstances beyond our control, we did not produce The Compass Report for the first quarter of 2017. We apologize for any inconvenience. ––––––––––––––––––– Arkansas’ economy remained…
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…
