by - July 2, 2015 6:40 am
American consumers continue to rally their support around “Made in the USA” products with 45% admitting that such a label is “extremely” or “very” important to them, according to a new survey.
by - July 2, 2015 6:34 am
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Startup Talk,” a round-up of startup, technology and entrepreneurial news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free…
by - July 1, 2015 6:25 pm
The Arkansas State University Delta STEM Education Center, in conjunction with the Colleges of Science and Mathematics and Education and Behavioral Science, will host a STEM Leadership Conference for K-12…
by - July 1, 2015 4:44 pm
This Arkansas summer is hot and right along with it the July/August magazine edition of Talk Business & Politics is hot off the press. It’s packed with lots of news, interviews and commentaries, including an in-depth interview with new AEDC director Mike Preston.
by - July 1, 2015 6:09 am
Todd Greer with SpotRight is one of the presenters at Wednesday morning’s 1 Million Cups event in downtown Little Rock. Greer, a former Acxiom executive, led a recapitalization of the…
by - June 30, 2015 8:00 pm
Active entrepreneur Cotton Rohrscheib is stepping down from Pleth, a Conway-based web agency he co-founded a decade ago, to pursue other opportunities. In a post on his blog, Rohrscheib said…
by - June 29, 2015 9:34 pm
In his Barcamp Little Rock session last weekend, Chad Williamson of Noble Impact shared the power of storytelling. In doing so, he relayed a couple of stories from his own…
by - June 29, 2015 9:02 pm
EquityNet has operated a crowdfunding platform since 2005 and company leaders say the Fayetteville-based firm is poised to see an explosion of opportunity in the near future.
by - June 28, 2015 9:31 am
After a week in a teen entrepreneurship boot camp, John David Halaway said the experience was a good one to help him manage his own company. What does he do and where is he taking his business?
by - June 28, 2015 9:21 am
HARK, the web TV series media company, announced on their website last week that they are taking a road trip. The trip will last six weeks and it will include…
by - June 28, 2015 9:18 am
The iconic ball cap worn by Sam Walton, a miniature Wal-Mart truck and short biographical stories of Walton’s retail rise are among more than 600 artifacts woven into the fabric of the “American Enterprise” exhibit set to open July 1 at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
by - June 28, 2015 6:26 am
Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Made In America,” a wrap-up of manufacturing news in our email newsletter, which you can sign up to receive daily for free here. MANUFACTURING,…
by - June 27, 2015 5:35 am
It was a roiling week of news from controversies regarding the Confederate flag to Supreme Court rulings on health care and same-sex marriage. We round up this news and more…
by - June 25, 2015 6:11 pm
Almost a year ago, Wal-Mart held an “open call” for manufacturers to present product ideas. Hugh Jarratt showed up with a plastic taco plate. It’s been a hit and now he’s pitching new ideas to the retail giant.
by - June 25, 2015 5:45 pm
The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce have formed a partnership to develop a new Innovation Hub in a building that the Chamber of Commerce is…
by - June 25, 2015 5:27 pm
To meet America’s growing demand for mobile broadband, the wireless industry will need more than 350 megahertz (MHz) of new licensed spectrum by 2019, according to a new report.
by - June 24, 2015 8:04 pm
We’re going to try a new experiment here at Talk Business & Politics to hear from you about your favorite TED talks over the years. As we’ve reported earlier, Little…
by - June 24, 2015 7:44 pm
As more prominence and recognition has been given to the state’s burgeoning startup and entrepreneurial community over the past few years, Arkansas still fell from six spots in a highly-watched national index that ranks new business growth and startup activity among the 50 states.
by - June 23, 2015 7:11 pm
Could Arkansas have the next Mark Zuckerberg? That’s what Gov. Asa Hutchinson thinks. Hutchinson recently wrote a commentary at business news channel CNBC’s web site about the recent law to…
by - June 23, 2015 5:38 pm
A data breach involving millions of current or former federal employees unveiled several major cracks in the armor of the federal government’s information systems, several witnesses told Sen. John Boozman,…
