CHALMETTE, La. - Hey St. Bernard Parish entrepreneurs, you better put down that King Cake and finish your submission to the "Start Up St. Bernard" Pitch Competition before the deadline at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24. Several entrants will…
NEW ORLEANS - Aerospace company Boeing announced that the massive new “Space Launch System” rocket it is building for NASA’s next round of space exploration has finished one round of tests and is beginning another at Stennis Space Center near…
BATON ROUGE -- A team of graduate students in LSU’s digital media arts and engineering and kinesiology programs are working alongside faculty, as well as LSU Football athletic training staff, to create a virtual environment that allows athletes to develop their…
NEW ORLEANS - "Disaster resilience and recovery" organization SBP (formerly known as the St. Bernard Project) and partners are beginning work on St. Peter Housing, a $7.4 million affordable housing development near the corner of Broad Street and Orleans Avenue…
NEW ORLEANS - Watch out: salad-making robots are invading the city. In fact, the first one has already arrived and you can find it in the cafeteria of the University Medical Center New Orleans. “Sally,” the creation of a California…
NEW ORLEANS - Tulane University’s Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will partner with Venture for America (VFA) to host a select group of 2020 VFA Fellows along with leaders from university entrepreneurship centers across the country during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW)…
NEW ORLEANS - As the news of the coronavirus (now officially named COVID-19) continues to dominate international headlines, Tulane University mathematical epidemiologist James “Mac” Hyman has been busy using mathematical models to help predict the spread of the disease and…
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change. Bezos, the world’s richest man, said in an Instagram post that he'll start giving grants this…
Here's the week that was: Looking Up Experts say there are two to three times the amount of crawfish this season compared to last year so prices are way down and everybody's salt intake is way up. ... The Port…
NEW ORLEANS - iSeatz, a loyalty tech company that integrates travel and lifestyle bookings for major brands in hospitality and financial services, said its OneView platform processed more than $4 billion in bookings, the highest amount in the company’s 20…
NEW ORLEANS - Tinder leads the online dating industry in number of downloads and total revenue - followed by other big names like Match, OkCupid and eHarmony - but platforms that serve…
CHALMETTE, La. - The Meraux Foundation and the St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation are partnering to support innovation and growth in St. Bernard Parish by presenting the sixth annual Startup St. Bernard competition. Startup St. Bernard seeks dedicated, enthusiastic entrepreneurs…
BATON ROUGE, La. — Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios announced it will host a hands-on game development camp beginning April 21 in New Orleans at a location to be announced. The Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Powered by Unity is open…
NEW ORLEANS - Online lending marketplace LendingTree released a study that shows New Orleans has the youngest entrepreneurs in America. The city moved up from its No. 3 position last year and knocked Salt Lake City from the top spot. Philadelphia comes in…
LONDON (AP) — Two big Japanese companies are the latest to pull out of a major European technology show due to fears over the outbreak of the new coronavirus. Electronics manufacturer Sony and mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo said Monday…
Happy first week of February! Here are a few highlights from the week's business news: Parishes west of Louisiana's capital city will see expanded high-speed internet connections as part of a $15 million federal project to improve online access in…
NEW ORLEANS - The Big Easy is getting an infusion of Silicon Valley glamor and money thanks to … silicon. Local business boosters cheered when news broke last month that upstart tech…
NEW ORLEANS - Slidell native and bead-lover Marcus Ciko first dreamed up the idea of making biodegradable Mardi Gras beads 20 years ago. It wasn’t until a decade later that he began formally researching and developing the idea. Now, with…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana's second medical marijuana grower, a contractor chosen by Southern University, hasn't started selling therapeutic cannabis yet, but the company is offering an over-the-counter CBD product at the state's marijuana dispensaries. Ilera Holistic Healthcare said it…
NEW ORLEANS - Producers of New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, scheduled for March 23-27 at various sites, announced its lineup of headline speakers. The list includes: Stuart Haselden – Co-CEO, Away Walter Robb – Former Co-CEO, Whole Foods Jon Najarian –…
NEW ORLEANS —Adams and Reese is pleased to announce the firm has been named a service partner of AiRXOS, part of GE Aviation and a leading provider of unmanned traffic management solutions. Adams and Reese is one of 12 technology…
DETROIT (AP) — The meteoric rise of Tesla shares that recently pushed the company's value over $100 billion could turn into a supercharged payday for CEO Elon Musk. Stock in Tesla Inc. rose another 4.1% Wednesday, pushing the market value…
NEW ORLEANS - Local tech company rasa.io announced the release of a free, self-service newsletter platform to businesses and nonprofits who want to create personalized email content based on subscribers' individual interests. Organizations can use the innovative technology to send out…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A medical marijuana company has big expansion plans for its Louisiana operations and is separately courting hemp farmers to support an upcoming launch into CBD products. Wellcana Group, one of only two companies approved in…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With a brass band playing and a parade of workers sporting Mardi Gras beads, a huge component of a new rocket system was wheeled slowly from a New Orleans spacecraft factory on Wednesday to a barge…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Flying taxis and a robot that can fetch toilet paper when you're stranded on the loo were among the technologies showcased this week at the annual CES gadget show in Las Vegas. The annual technology conference is the…
NEW ORLEANS - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said it is planning on landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024. To reach that goal, it has been overseeing construction of what it describes…
NEW ORLEANS—Entrepreneurial nonprofit The Idea Village announced that 12 local startups have been selected to participate in its 2020 VILLAGEx accelerator cohort. VILLAGEx is a 16-week, intensive acceleration program for a group of startup companies with innovative, technology-focused business models.…
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Entrepreneurs Week, co-produced by Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business and the Idea Village, will return March 23-27 to the Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet St., to celebrate the city's entrepreneurial spirit, showcase emerging trends…
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved industrial hemp licensing plans for Louisiana,Ohio and New Jersey, the department announced Friday. The states are the first to get such approval, though 34 other states have hemp research or pilot projects under a…
