SpaceX wins $2.9B NASA contract to fly astronauts to the moon
Elon Musk’s aerospace company beat out Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Alabama-based Dynetics for the contract.
Seattle judge allows data privacy suits against Microsoft, Amazon to proceed
Two Illinois men claim their images were illegally harvested from the web and made available to major tech companies to train AI algorithms. Both Amazon and Microsoft, which have joined forces to battle the suits, had tried to get the complaints thrown...
Friends mourn death of cannabis entrepreneur, startup founder coach Sara Batterby
Sara Batterby, founder of Equity Capital Collective and co-founder of Nightingale Botanicals, died unexpectedly this week. She was 49 years old. Batterby was active in the Oregon entrepreneurial ecosystem with her recent role as founder coach working...
SpaceX beats Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin team for NASA’s lunar lander system
NASA reveals a commercial partner to develop a key piece of its Artemis moon-return program.
Tractor Supply Co., Ingram Barge Co. take home top awards from Greater Nashville Technology Council
The tech council's goal is doubling the region's tech workforce by 2025, to 92,000 people. To get there, it's working to build a local pipeline while kickstarting a recruiting campaign aimed at workers in six cities.
SWJ Technology opens headquarters near Tuscaloosa
The German engineering firm has opened its headquarters nearly two years after breaking ground.
The power of low-code technology, the new, big frontier of digital transformation
What if creating a new, automated application users need to do their jobs no matter where they’re located was as easy as drawing a workflow diagram? That’s exactly what low-code technology does.
Blue Origin wins defense contract to design nuclear-powered rocket
Kent-based Blue Origin and two other aerospace companies companies have been awarded $27 million worth of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracts to design and demonstrate a future nuclear powered spacecraft. DARPA announced the research c...
Bay State companies ‘dominated’ largest early-stage deals in Q1, report says
The report released Wednesday by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, which looked at venture capital, angel financing, exits and other relevant industry analysis, found that 20 of the top 25 largest early-stage deals raised by U.S. ...
JumpStart sees unprecedented number of portfolio companies acquired
Private equity funds are sitting on a record amount of cash — $1.54 trillion as of June 2020.
How Amazon’s big push into telehealth could shake up heath care delivery
The company has a history of diving into new markets and inventing new technologies that reshape customer expectations, especially when it comes to speed and convenience. Now it's expanding its app-based Amazon Care service, promising "instant" access ...
New Braunfels customer support outsourcing company files for IPO
This company is betting on Texas and is filing for an IPO.