Birmingham, Ala., may not immediately come to mind when reviewing leading Southern startup hubs, but what the city lacks in notoriety, it makes up in effort and heart. Support from groups an... Read more
Access to better, cheaper technologies has made it easier than ever to launch a business and the current surge of mainstream interest in startups has sparked some public relations and market... Read more
Another Atlanta startup has entered the rapidly growing shared economy, this time to disrupt the $90 billion shipping industry. Roadie, the maker of an Uber-like marketplace for shipping and... Read more
Google has confirmed plans to expand its Google Fiber Internet service to four U.S. metropolitan areas in the Southeast. In a company blog post published earlier today, Google Fiber Vice Pre... Read more
As cash continues to fall out of favor, who will take its place in the payment processing wars? In the rapidly growing mobile payments space, Apple Pay appears to be a frontrunner, but it is... Read more
Box, one of the first entrants into the hotly contested cloud storage industry, concluded its long journey to Wall Street this morning after filing for an IPO almost a year ago. Box official... Read more
Austin, Texas-based investment firm Escalate Capital Partners has reportedly closed a third fund with $235 million in commitments, according to Fortune.com. Escalate Capital is mezzanine-sta... Read more
Silicon Valley’s Bessemer Venture Partners has invested an additional $1 million into Atlanta cybersecurity startup Bastille Networks. The new funds are an extension of a $1.5 million... Read more
Search engine giant Google is partnering with Lending Club, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending network, to facilitate low-interest financing to qualified businesses that resell Googl... Read more
Notorious time-wasting site Facebook is getting into the enterprise game with a new employee collaboration app called “Facebook at Work.” The social networking giant released a test version... Read more