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It’s an Atlanta M&A deal made in design heaven. Band of Coders, a software development and engineering agency founded in 2001, announced this week the acquisition of Atlanta-based Toolbox No. 9. Toolbox. The design company was founded in 2005 and focuses on app development, user experience, and
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Hybrid work teams face a common problem, says John Wichmann. Particularly after COVID, the in-office work experience has diminished, and employees often “end up feeling [it] was not worth the commute,” he told Hypepotamus. “[That is] inextricably connected with the poor experience feeding the low return numbers,” he said, while
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Headlines about The Great Resignation – the 2021 trend of employees leaving jobs voluntarily – has given way to realities of layoffs and sector-specific slowdowns have certainly rattled the tech industry. But those headlines about layoffs don’t tell the full story of what is going on in the economy, as the
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Almost as quickly as ChatGPT caught the imagination of the tech world, alarm bells started going off about what a powerful AI chatbot could mean for academia. Following a few rough pandemic years that upended how schools teach, professors are now grappling with how to identify and stop AI-written assignments
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The ATLinBusiness Marketplace, launched today in partnership with local fintech Now® and Invest Atlanta, is bringing the ‘Buy Local’ movement into the B2B world. The Marketplace is designed to connect local small businesses with major corporations and other procurement organizations in the area. An expansion of ATLinBusiness, a city-wide initiative
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Collateral Data, an upcoming international thriller feature film, is set to bring Georgia’s tech ecosystem to the big screen. It’s the first original screenplay from Jon Gosier, founder and CEO of the media finance startup FilmHedge, and is loosely adapted from his tech-focused memoir Code Switch. This will
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The brother and sister founding team of Shirah Benarde and Michael Benarde are looking to change the meaning behind “grabbing a nightcap.” Shirah developed NightCap as a unique product that turns a simple hair scrunchie into a drink spiking prevention tool. “When we first started NightCap, one of the very
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Kyle Clements was working on a “weekend warrior” project when he ran into some particularly frustrating experiences renting gear from the larger equipment rental companies. “After that, I was curious -- if this is what the large, national players are doing, what are the small players doing? It turns out,
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It takes grit to get a small business off the ground. But what if you are doing that while balancing a career in tech? Well, a small but mighty group of entrepreneurs are doing just that. In the process, they are evolving the Atlanta tech scene and launching some rather
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British startups have been become an integral part of the Atlanta tech ecosystem over the years. London-based teams like what3words, Capital on Tap, Featurespace, and others have set up offices in the city. Along the way, UK startups have pitched to local investors and Atlanta startups have crossed the pond
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With baseball spring training only a few weeks away, teams are working hard to build out their strategy to fill up stadium seats. For marketing teams, it is all about rethinking the fan experience. That starts even before fans arrive at the field, says Cody Haynes, Senior Director of Business
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Nonprofit retail stores – think thrift stores, Goodwills, and ReStores – need donation items to stay afloat. But they also have very specific POS (point-of-sales) needs that more traditional brick-and-mortar stores don’t have to deal with. Not only are they managing complex and sporadic inventory, they have to arrange donation pickups