Conor Ferguson had a slight leg-up on the competition as he graduated from Mississippi State University—he’d already started a wireless Internet company with his dad when he was still in high school. That company offered high-speed access to residential areas where other types of broadband didn't reach. How it works…
Focusing on legislation designed to combat "brain drain" in Mississippi, WAPT interviewed two local startup CEOs: Bilal Qizilbash, co-founder and CEO of EasyKale Labs LLC in Jackson, and Josh Frazier, CEO of Torrus, based in Rankin County. The story by WAPT reporter Jade Bulecza asked the CEOs about a bill in…
The Mississippi Business Journal recently reported that Richard A. Sun, CFA, was named the AITP's Mississippian of the Year in 2018. The Jackson chapter or CompTIA's Association of Information Technology Award Professionals presented him with the award during a ceremony at Anjou Restaurant in Ridgeland. Sun is the former chairman…
Bac Yeast is a Hattiesburg-based company delivering specialized yeast to breweries around the country. A chemist, a microbiologist, and an engineer walk into a bar. A couple of beers later, and they have a business plan: to start their own beer lab. Ok, the idea wasn’t technically born in a…
The Columbus Dispatch had two great stories on the Golden Triangle Region (GTR) cohort of the Mississippi Coding Academies in January—one was an announcement of the graduation of nine coders, and the other was an editorial that focuses on the potential that the Coding Academies have for fighting brain drain in Mississippi.…
Of the 551 micropolitan areas around the country, Oxford, Miss., ranks #9 in overall economic strength according to Policom Corporation, an independent economic research firm out of Florida. The annual rankings measure the economic strength of areas that have a city of more than 10,000 people, and fewer than 50,000,…
JACKSON, Mississippi – The year 2019 will ring in new jobs and major investment in Mississippi as Entergy Nuclear continues to expand its operations and workforce. Entergy Corporation has created some 170 jobs at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station since 2017, increasing its workforce to more than 820 employees. Over the…
(Jackson, Miss.) The Mississippi Coding Academies are proud to announce the graduation of its first cohort of computer programmer developers. The Jackson cohort graduated 11 junior developers, and the Golden Triangle cohort graduated nine new junior developers after they successfully completed an 11-month, full stack curriculum which started in October…
Accelerate: The 19th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation took place on November 13-14, 2018 at the Westin Jackson in Missisippi's capital city. Convened by Innovate Mississippi, the conference began with the Company and Investor Spotlight on November 13th, where companies were able to pitch to an audience of mentors and…
'The Accelerator' got some great press from the Hattiesburg American, which published an article of Thanksgiving weekend by Ellen Ciurczak. The article focused on the $28-million, 60,000-square-foot facility that is home to 14 different companies and three University of Southern Mississippi labs. The Accelerator is a project of USM, designed to…