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...
UAB and Southern Research: Partnership to Speed Ideas to Applications
Frequent collaborators UAB and Southern Research are teaming up once again, this time with a partnership that will attempt to tap into the lucrative...
Bill Kraus – Shipper’s Carpenter
After a long, successful run in the corporate world, 45-year-old Bill Kraus has caught the sideline business bug.
Kraus has a rewarding career with one of Mobile’s...
AIM – High Risk with Due Diligence
Facebook was smaller than MySpace, with fewer than 10 employees, before angel investors swooped in. Without angel investing Google might not be among the...