The city of Vicksburg is seeking more than $500,000 in federal grant funds to upgrade and improve the city-owned parking area at the old Mississippi Hardware building at the corner of Washington and Depot streets as part of a plan to transform the building into high tech center. The Board…
Innovate Mississippi is a nonprofit organization with the mission to drive innovation and technology-based economic development for the state of Mississippi. It got its start with the founding of Mississippi Technology, Inc., in 1998, followed a year later by the first board meeting of the Mississippi Technology Alliance. It was…
John C. Stennis Space Center, north of Interstate 10 in South Mississippi, is a 14,000-acre secure complex surrounded by a unique 125,000-acre heavily wooded buffer zone. It’s where some of the most powerful rocket engines in the world have been tested, including 27 first- and second-stage boosters for the Saturn…
Oxford, Miss. - NoTime2Cook, a southern-style frozen casserole company, based in Oxford, Mississippi landed a deal with Walmart last week at the 2017 Walmart Open Call event in Bentonville, Arkansas. NoTime2Cook is woman owned and operated by Karen Kurr. Karen began NoTime2Cook in her family kitchen, and later added a…
JACKSON -- Dr. LouAnn Woodward, leader of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will help set the course for medical education in this country and beyond as chair of a powerful accrediting body. For a one-year term that begins July 1, Woodward officially takes over as chair of the Liaison…
JACKSON, Mississippi–Entergy Mississippi, Inc. customers saved some $118 million over the last three years, thanks to the Mississippi Public Service Commission’s approval for the utility to join MISO, a regional transmission organization. Entergy Corporation’s four southern utilities joined MISO on Dec. 19, 2013, after a lengthy period of regulatory review…
STARKVILLE, MS – 26 June 2017 – Camgian Chairman and CEO Dr. Gary Butler testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hosted a hearing on Tuesday, June 13th as part of their Disrupter Series titled…
JACKSON, Miss–June 22, 2017–Fuse.Cloud, one of the leading providers of business technology solutions in the Southeast, is celebrating a major milestone of 2,000 customers since being founded in 2006. Over the last 11 years, the company has grown to serve customers in 40 states, providing advanced, cloud-based voice, internet and…
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach has continued to grow since moving into a new 2,000-square-foot facility in 2016. The center now works with 99 entrepreneurship teams representing students from every academic college in the university, up from approximately 30 teams in 2014. In fiscal year 2017,…
Interested in finding a NASA technology you can commercialize? NASA has a portfolio of technologies available for license. To stimulate the innovation economy, NASA has opened up a selection of patents that are now available to the public at no cost, some rules apply. Visit www.technology.nasa.gov/startup for more information. …