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...
Bioscience: Careful What You Wish For?
Last fall, U.K.-based Oxford Pharmaceuticals announced plans to build a $29 million, 120, 000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Birmingham’s Jefferson Metropolitan Lakeshore Industrial Park by...
YMCAs: Making the Most of Serving Nonprofits
Dave Gray is the CEO of Birmingham-based Daxko Inc., one of the state’s most successful information technology companies. Daxko makes money in one of...
HudsonAlpha Breeds Serial Entrepreneurs
When the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology opened in Huntsville in 2009, it promised to boost genomic research, economic development and educational outreach.
The institute has...
Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc: Footprints in the Dark Illuminated
CEOs like to talk about “vision, ” but, at Polaris Sensor Technologies Inc. in Huntsville, it’s not a metaphorical discussion.
The company’s latest product generates enhanced...
Tracking the Long Life of Nuclear Harm
In a spate of recent medical journal articles and presentations at scientific conferences, Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki has warned that long-term health risks from nuclear...
GATR Technologies: Creative Dishing and the Next Big Thing
The engineers at GATR Technologies in Huntsville knew they had a good product early on, because, at natural disaster sites in the Philippines where...
Ed Robbins III: The Shoals’ Inventor/Entrepreneur
Imagine. That’s what Edward “Ed” Stanley Robbins III has done his whole life. It’s the reason that, at age 82, he holds more than...
Carpenter Technology: New Star in Alabama Aerospace Cluster
Outside of the aeronautics, do you know what the Wright Brothers, the Spirit of St. Louis and every U.S. Space program project have in...
Opelika Power Services: Opelika Puts Itself on the Main Line
When the city of Opelika bought a privately owned electric plant more than 100 years ago, many Americans were still without electricity — cooking...
