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Can Atlanta's Tech Scene Score Points with Super Bowl LIII?

Can Atlanta's Tech Scene Score Points with Super Bowl LIII?

Atlanta's winning playbook to land Super Bowl LIII in February 2019 featured many of the same elements you hear city officials tout when trying to bring new businesses here: The world's busiest airport, downtown's many attractions, shoutouts to the Beltline, the city's

Why Millennials Throw More Money at B2B Buying

Why Millennials Throw More Money at B2B Buying

If you're a baby boomer who's been working in technology since the Jurassic era of DOS prompts, a new study from Atlanta-based PR/digital marketing firm Arketi Group confirms your suspicions: When it comes to who's doing the B2b buying, it's a

Hip Hop Executive Turned Digital Demigod Has a Great True Story

Hip Hop Executive Turned Digital Demigod Has a Great True Story

James Andrews has lived his life at the intersection of digital technology, entrepreneurship, and culture. His experiences navigating those streams make him a valuable resource for Atlanta's startup community. Raised in Palo Alto, CA, by an aunt who was a graphic designer, Andrews soaked up the early days

How Heroes and Hashtags Can Boost Startup Diversity

How Heroes and Hashtags Can Boost Startup Diversity

She grew up in Nashville, but Partpic co-founder and CEO Jewel Burks knew her destiny lay four hours to the south on Interstates 24 and 75. "I was always looking at Atlanta as where I wanted to be," Burks told the audience at a recent panel discussion on

How FinTech is Dragging Banks into the 21st Century

How FinTech is Dragging Banks into the 21st Century

Have you been inside a bank branch office within the last month? Have you ever used your mobile phone to deposit a check? Kabbage co-founder Kathryn Petralia asked those questions of the audience at a recent MIT Education Forum Atlanta panel called "The Future of Lending: FinTech Trends and

RaceIQ Zooms to the Fast Lane as Winner of Biz Launch 2016

RaceIQ Zooms to the Fast Lane as Winner of Biz Launch 2016

More electric and hybrid vehicles may be rolling off assembly lines, but all cars are shifting further into digital territory, sharing data with drivers and their mobile devices. Atlanta automotive software startup RaceIQ Engineering wants to do business at that industry intersection, and that strategy helped it roar past 14

Workforce Solution, Deputy Targets Alpharetta for Americas HQ

Workforce Solution, Deputy Targets Alpharetta for Americas HQ

The very day Queensland Rail started using Deputy - a cloud-based product that automates workforce scheduling, communications, and engagement for hourly workers - a train broke down. "They leveraged the power of the (software's) matching market, and they found an engineer in 30 seconds to go fix