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It’s a painful experience just about everyone is familiar with: Wasting time in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. You walk in with some sort of ailment, only to get a massive headache from waiting in line, verifying your information, and filling out a seemingly endless number
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The latest news from the Atlanta startup acquisition front comes from the growing construction technology space. Flashtract, a software startup for construction billing automation, has been acquired by Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB). The public technology company focuses on surveying, construction, agriculture, public safety, and mapping. We last covered Flashtract after the
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We've made it to another Friday... This week was filled with graduations and celebrations. Funding news was slow, but that doesn't mean there was no movement in the Southeast startup ecosystem. Here are the stories you need to know as we wrap up the week. The
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The tech industry is facing a critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The gap between the number of skilled cybersecurity staffers needed and the number available has risen by nearly 13 percent year-over-year globally, according to the Cybersecurity Workforce Study from ISC2. On top of that, the industry continues to struggle
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Could AI actually make the internet safer for kids? Nashville entrepreneur Tim Estes believes so. After building up his career in artificial intelligence, Estes is back in the founder seat with Angel AI. The platform is designed to change the way children interact with and learn from the digital world.
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Telecommunications giant Comcast may be headquartered in Philadelphia, but Atlanta has grown to become the company’s prime testing ground for new technologies and community programs. And entrepreneurs are reaping the benefits. Comcast has set up its Atlanta office at The Battery to serve as its Southeast and Midwest hub,
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Another work week in the books. For Southeast startups, this week brought early-stage funding news and impressive acquisition headlines. As you catch up on work and prepare to wind down for the weekend, here is a round up of what happened across the region: The BIG Stories on Hypepotamus Atlanta-based
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The summer before senior year is crunchtime for high schoolers applying to colleges. Many college-bound students will use the summer months to research campuses and get a jump on applications in order to improve their chances of getting into their dream school. Those applications and all-important, deeply personal entrance essays
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Late last year, the State of Tennessee changed its Department of Commerce and Insurance’s securities rules to exempt venture capital firms from the requirement of full registration as an investment adviser. As CEO of Launch Tennessee Lindsey Cox penned in The Tennessean newspaper, that rule change and new flexibility
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Another work week in the books. For Southeast startups, this week brought early-stage funding news and impressive acquisition headlines. As you catch up on work and prepare to wind down for the weekend, here is a round up of what happened across the region: The BIG Story North Carolina-based Front
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What happened after the Baltimore Bridge collapsed? How are ships are moving in the Red Sea today? What does the Gaza humanitarian pier look like right now? Especially in the world of government and defense, there are a lot of very important questions that can only be answered through robust
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Parth Arora doesn’t yet have his college diploma. But he does have something that most entrepreneurs envy: A successful startup exit. Arora founded the fitness app Third Dimension Fitness as a student in Georgia Tech’s undergraduate computer science department. The virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality startup is