by - August 16, 2018 8:42 pm
Governor Asa Hutchinson said Thursday (Aug. 16) the state’s unemployment rate will be announced as 3.7% Friday and said he hopes disputes over trade policies end soon. The state’s previous…
by - August 16, 2018 6:07 pm
A host of North Little Rock city officials and local business leaders on Thursday (Aug. 16) touted the groundbreaking ceremony for the planned global headquarters of First Orion as the…
by - August 15, 2018 5:00 pm
Arkansas’ ongoing efforts to grow the state’s aerospace and defense sector got a big boost Wednesday (Aug. 15) after Sacramento, Calif.-based Aerojet Rocketdyne unveiled plans to expand the company’s solar-powered…
by - August 9, 2018 5:10 pm
Little Rock-based Uniti Group trimmed second quarter losses from a year ago as the real estate investment trust (REIT) continued to grow its national fiber network with two new investment…
by - August 9, 2018 9:43 am
Windstream Holdings Inc.’s second quarter financial results beat Wall Street expectations even as losses widened to nearly $94 million amid the company’s ongoing legal battle over debt swaps related to…
by - August 8, 2018 9:36 pm
The Little Rock Technology Park Authority on Wednesday (Aug. 8) agreed to hire CDI Contractors LLC as the construction manager for the next phase of its unfinanced downtown startup village…
by - August 8, 2018 4:49 pm
Carriers often have a better understanding of a shipper’s freight than the shipper has of its own products, a logistics executive said. In a recent podcast, Steve Ludvigson, president and…
by - August 8, 2018 4:35 pm
A mission of the Northwest Arkansas Technology Council is to educate and explore the dynamics of integrating technology for what is hoped will become one of the first smart regions…
by - August 6, 2018 10:32 pm
Newly named AT&T Arkansas President Ronnie Dedman is a career company man with the telecom giant, and one thing’s for sure, his day job never gets boring. With traffic on…
by - August 6, 2018 4:38 pm
Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc., a technology firm located in the Arkansas Research and Technology Park at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, has received a $1 million grant from the…
by - August 1, 2018 8:09 pm
Blockchain is a big buzzword in the business world and it’s no longer just associated with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Some of the state’s largest employers from Fort Smith-based ArcBest to…
by - August 1, 2018 8:17 am
The Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) announced Wednesday (Aug. 1) that Bryan Barnhouse has been promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Formerly the organization’s vice president, Barnhouse’s tenure has…
by - July 30, 2018 7:24 pm
In April, Fort Smith-based steel fabrication company American Precision Fabricators (APF) agreed to a purchase offer from Alpine 4 of Phoenix under the terms of a private transaction. As a…
by - July 30, 2018 10:37 am
ProPak Corporation and Pinnacle Communications have signed on to help sponsor Fort Smith’s first large-scale LAN party. LAN refers to a local area network in the technology sector. But in…
by - July 26, 2018 11:37 am
Sam’s Club recently hired about 100 employees to work in its new downtown Dallas technology center. The tech employees are now working in South Lake in co-working spaces until the…
by - July 26, 2018 10:42 am
Final-mile delivery is the most expensive element of online shopping and in the low-margin grocery business, every penny counts. Walmart continues to test several possibilities with its online grocery delivery…
by - July 26, 2018 8:13 am
Medical startup Lineus Medical of Fayetteville is moving out of research and development mode and into product launch mode. A result of the transition is a new CEO. Vance Clement,…
by - July 25, 2018 6:42 pm
Walmart is not new to video streaming. The retail giant acquired VUDU in February 2010, but it has fallen far behind subscriptions to Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix and other popular…
by - July 24, 2018 9:10 am
Nearly two years after rolling out its multi-million dollar gigabit internet service in the Little Rock area, Comcast Business has completed the expansion of its fiber network into the fast-growing…
by - July 18, 2018 6:20 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and FIS Chairman and CEO Gary Norcross announced a agreement Wednesday (July 18) to extend the state’s partnership with the Jacksonville, Fla.-based publicly-traded company to highlight the…
