South University, a private institution with six campuses across the southeast United States, is opening a Short Pump location, hopefully by October.
David Larter
Tech Review: Aviary (Photoshop for kindergarteners)
A free, web-based photo editor can handle some graphics work for small businesses without Photoshop. It’s refreshingly easy to use and probably a great fit for business owners who need a quick fix.
Hello: My name is …
First Market Bank and Union Bankshares Corp., which merged at the end of March, have this week started brainstorming different names for the combined company.
For Hire: Twitter and Facebook whiz
For the more than 60 PR and marketing firms in Richmond, it’s time to adapt, and quickly. A handful of local firms are betting that social networking is the lifeline, but that could be a risky strategy.
Hello, will you be my friend?
Welcome to the second installment of Richmond 2.0, an RBS series that explores how Richmond businesses use social networking. Today, it’s the websites LinkedIn and Facebook, where businesses are increasingly friending one another and trying to find new contacts, customers and employees online.
Business Licenses 6.18.09
The weekly haul of new business licenses. Best new company name this week: “Beautiful U”
Venture capital firm looks to raise, invest $7.5M
A venture capital firm with an office on Cary Street is looking to put more money into start-ups. According to Tech Journal South, Harbert Venture Partners is raising $7.5 million to invest in the Southeast region. And although the company had no comment, it stands to reason that at least some of that money will… Read more »
Web 2.0 has some Richmond businesses in a Twitter
For all the talk about Web 2.0 “revolutionizing” business, professionals say the rules of blogging and Twitter are almost identical to those that apply to old-fashioned, face-to-face networking. In the first of a three-part series on how Richmond businesses use social networking, RBS takes a look at Twitter to find out what sort of businesses are using it and to what end.
First Market sees surge in repos
On Tuesday BizSense reported that Richmond Auto Auction was seeing more high-end cars from local banks. Today we heard from a local bank.
Fed’s Lacker expects rebound by 2010
The Richmond Federal Reserve bank’s President says that the economy has hit bottom and will start bouncing back later this year. Jeffery Lacker told state legislators that he was starting to see improved consumer spending and that existing home sales might just have a pulse after all. From the AP story: “If the emerging stability… Read more »