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Rick Hancock is editor of MyAJC.com at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution digital subscriber website. Rick will also be the primary contributor to AJC Tech Biz. Tech Biz was created to capture the vibrant tech industry that flows through metro Atlanta. Rick's has more than 20-years of award-winning journalism experience working across digital, broadcast and print media platforms. In addition to his involvement with a number of tech startup ventures, Rick has also served as a university dean (Quinnipiac University) and fulltime faculty member (University of Connecticut).
If you have local tech news and ideas to share email Rick at rick.hancock@ajc.om or business assignment editor Matt Kempner at mkempner@ajc.com.
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Got a Tech Business? Tell us your story
Another Sunday, another great story in the AJC related to tech and entrepreneurism. Last week the AJC's Michael Kanell wrote about Helping Tech Grow in Atlanta, and today business assignment editor Matt Kempner profiled entrepreneur Diana Harbour and her Athens-based online business that's on track to earn $ 8 million in ...
GigaOM Coming Back To Atlanta
One of the first tech events I attended in Atlanta was back in July when GigaOM came to town. Well, it looks like that first impression was a good one becasue I just got an email letting me know that they're coming back -- next week. I've cut and pasted ...
Cigital Making A Move To Atlanta
Cigital a Virginia-based software solutions company that’s now setting up an office in Atlanta announced today the completion of a $50M equity investment by LLR Partners. Cigital designs, builds and maintains secure software applications. The company’s CTO, Gary McGraw, is also in town today to talk about “why is ...
Helping Tech Grow in Atlanta
In Sunday's AJC Business section, my colleague Michael Kanell writes how Atlanta Tech Village and Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, among others, are helping local entrepreneurs grow. Kanell's report, "Looking for a Village to Raise Startup Tech Firms," expands on some of the themes discussed at last week's Collaborative Leadership ...
Email Overload. Entrepreneurs Needed
Just got in from a business trip and I'll be back to regular blogging next week. Hopefully by then I’ll have figured out how I suddenly got over 98,000 unread emails on my iPhone!!!! I know I didn’t check email a lot while I was away from the newsroom, but ...
Something For Everyone The Next Few Months
If you thought this weekend was just the start of fall; think again! The good folks at Hypepotamus say Friday kicked-off seven weeks of Mardi Gras like festivities here in Atlanta for innovators. It’s dubbed Southern Fried Supernova! During September, October and November Atlanta will host at least three dozen ...
Noro-Moseley Partners Raise Over $46 Million
FIRST ON AJC TECH BIZ! On Monday, Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners (NMP) filed notice with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it has raised nearly $47 million dollars in a new venture fund. NMP is a prominent southeastern venture capital firm that has invested in more than 150 start-ups and ...
Top "Promising" Startups in Atlanta (One Woman's Opinion)
I found this story on The Next Web, but that blog post kept pointing to the Fueled blog, but I couldn’t find the original post there, so I’m pointing to TNW. In any case Brook Pendleton offered up specific praise to the following "promising" Atlanta startups: Scoutmob, Socialvest, We&Co, ...
Trying to Get EduTech Right
In case you missed it in Sunday's paper (or MyAJC.com ) the AJC's Daarel Burnette II delivered an insightful story on how some Georgia school kids are leading the way in using iPhones and tablets to learn. But the biggest takeaway for me from the article was debunking the "if ...
Atlanta's nCrowd Bets Online Deals Aren't Dead
Atlanta-based nCrowd, a social commerce company, announced Wednesday that it purchased the deal division of South Florida-based Saveology.com. Under the agreement, nCrowd acquired the consumer and merchant relationships from Saveology’s deal business that offered local and national coupons in 42 markets nationwide. nCrowd is the parent company of social commerce ...
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