Tag: April 2015
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...
Shipbuilding;: LCS Sails Through Hearings as Balkan Challenges Eyed
Reading between the lines a bit from reports of congressional budget hearings involving U.S. Navy shipbuilding plans, it appears shallow-draft warships of the kind...
Hilton Garden Inn – Daphne Hotel Hilton’s Best
For the second consecutive year, Hilton Garden Inn Mobile East Bay/Daphne has been named the brand’s top performing hotel. The Daphne property was selected...
Panalpina Adds Two Flights to Brazil Per Week
Panalpina, a Swiss-based freight forwarding company that maintains its U.S. hub in Huntsville, has added two flights per week from Huntsville to Viracopos, São...
New Tax Tribunal Busy, Backs No-Show Wedding Chapel
When last we visited the Alabama Tax Tribunal, in a January 2015 Business Alabama story called “Long Road to Tax Fairness, ” the renamed...
Merck Vaccine Efficacy – Mayberry vs. Merck & Co.
A little primary care practice in Chatom, county seat of piney woods Washington County, is at the center of what could be a massive...