By James Dowd of The Commercial Appeal, posted 8/29/2011 Just four months and change shy of its fourth birthday, Memphis-based Resolute Interactive is being reborn as a new division within an existing local agency. The mobile application firm is merging with Lokion Interactive, company officials announced today. Founded in 2001, Lokion is acquiring Resolute’s client [...]
“Memphis is still very much in the early stages of these great developments and although momentum is being built, we are far from where we need to be. The envelope must continue to be pushed to advance entrepreneurship.”
The Bluff City and the city of Liége in Belgium, this year’s Memphis in May International Festival-honored country, are both growing hubs of biotech research and incubation.
By James Dowd, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Posted May 5, 2011 at midnight Nine emerging entrepreneurs compete for virtual investment, future success The good news for Dr. Paul Simone Jr. on Tuesday was winning first place and $534,000 after a five-minute pitch for his Foundation Instruments startup during the Kauffman Foundation FastTrac graduation program. The only [...]
MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Six technology start-ups are taking their ideas from abstract sketches to an investable form in the span of 90 days, and June 2, they’ll pitch their new businesses to investors at Seed Hatchery’s first Investor Day. The high-stakes event, to be held in Memphis – the birthplace of FedEx, Holiday Inn [...]
By Lela Garlington, appeared in the Memphis Commercial Appeal on February 4, 2011. Can Germantown afford to start an incubator program and help subsidize some up-and-coming medical device companies? That is what elected city officials will have to decide in the coming months as they figure out what to leave in and what to take [...]
“Orgs Embrace Technology Via Mobile Device Integration” Published 1/27/2011 by the Memphis Daily News When visitors entered Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s Who Shot Rock & Roll exhibition last summer, they were handed an iPod Touch outfitted with an audio-guided tour of the exhibit’s iconic images. It was the Brooks’ first foray into the emerging [...]
Published by the Commercial Appeal on 1/23/2011; Written by Toby Sells Bioscience industries in Tennessee and the Memphis region beat national averages in 2008 and 2009, and the sector remains a “legitimate star” in national and local economies. These findings were outlined last week to the Memphis Bioworks Business Association by Battelle, the nonprofit innovation [...]
Posted January 25, 2011 at 11 p.m. with the Memphis Commercial Appeal New manufacturing plants and rumors of new manufacturing plants get the headlines in Memphis. Somewhat more quietly, the bioscience industries continue to grow as some of the city’s — and the region’s — significant economic engines, demonstrating that science and technology can be [...]
Memphis’ biotech industry is well-positioned to be a player in the growing personalized medicine industry, mainly due to the city’s logistical industry.
