Freetextbooks.com – Taming The High Price of Textbooks
Thirty-year-old Jonathan Robinson, founder of Birmingham-based Freetextbooks.com, has always liked looking for and finding ways to make money. But his entrepreneurial nature didn’t lead...
CCS: Company-Customized Continuing Education
A well-trained work force is essential in today’s competitive business environment. But it’s always a challenge to find the best training at the right...
AU’s College of Business: The Roar of Entrepreneurs
Come one, come all — trendsetters, groundbreakers and changers of the status quo. Converging on the Plains this month are moderators, mentors, alumni and...
Asterisk Phone System: Riding Telecom’s First Waves
Youthful naïveté played to Mark Spencer’s advantage in 1999, when the 21-year-old, working out of his Auburn University dorm room, launched Asterisk — an...
Analytics In Business: Lessons in Real World Big Data
There is a scene in the movie “Moneyball” — about the Oakland Athletics’ innovative plan in the early 2000s to use advanced analytics to...
BP’s “Well from Hell” and a Very Big Class Action
April 20 is the fifth anniversary of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which began spewing over 200 million gallons of BP crude...
Mobile Phone App – Main Street Plus Apps
New technologies have revolutionized the way money is used and managed. Rather than making a purchase with cash, check or even plastic, many consumers...
Danny Lipford – In Homes Coast to Coast
Of the 210 television markets in the United States, Danny Lipford is in 204. His home repair and improvement TV show reaches every state;...
Go Build Alabama: Workforce Campaign Nails Solid Growth Metrics
The Go Build Alabama campaign to improve the image of the construction industry in the minds of potential skilled workers has been declared a...
Multifamily Housing – Downtown Digs, Coast to Coast
President and founder of Birmingham-based Capstone Building Corp., Jay Chapman is one of the leading Alabama general contractors in one of the few truly...
