Technology business news from the Southeast states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee in support of a regional Community of One.
Atlanta GA: DecisionLink’s platform organizes the customer value management process, and one of the larger VC firms out in Silicon Valley has taken notice.
RTP NC: Atos will devote resources and services to drive enterprise digitalization efforts utilizing IBM and Red Hat Open Shift to focus on hybrid cloud offerings for clients.
Morehead KY: AppHarvest — an indoor farming company backed by Martha Stewart — thinks the agriculture sector is ripe for disruption. And now, its tomatoes are ripe for eating.
Fort Lauderdale FL: Citrix, a leader in digital workspaces, plans to acquire Wrike, a SaaS project management platform, from Vista Equity Partners for $2.25 billion.
Volusia County FL: Communities developer Avalon Park Group has signed a deal to buy land to build a 300-MW-plus solar power plant with Swiss and Singaporean partners.
Huntsville AL: The U.S. Air Force picked Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL., for the new 1,400-person U.S. Space Command's headquarters, moving there from Colorado.
Atlanta GA: Verizon Communications is working with United Parcel Service Inc. to test the use of 5G drones to deliver packages to a Florida retirement community.
Cary NC: SAS has secured a contract with the US Food and Drug Administration to use artificial intelligence and other advanced tools to make sure drugs are safe for human use.
Franklin TN: Chamberlain Group and Mitsubishi Motors North America announced myQ® Connected Garage is now part of the My Mitsubishi Connect platform of innovative services.
Nashville TN: UnitedHealth Group will add Nashville’s Change Healthcare to its OptumInsight segment and boost its ability to provide data analytics and other tech to its offerings.
Atlanta GA: SalesLoft, provider of a sales engagement platform, raised $100M to invest in new vertical markets, AI/ML-driven innovation, and further international expansion.