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Opower software encourages energy savings
Arlington-based Opower's cloud-based software enables utilities to communicate with customers and drive energy savings.
Media General weighs its fate in two deals
Media General received an unsolicited $4.1 billion takeover offer from Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. after it announced plans to acquire Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corp. for $3.1 billion.
What’s new at JMU?
James Madison University is building a new residence hall and conference center.
Building a 21st-century city
Projects now underway will change Norfolk in 2017.
Funds initiative
NorfolkFirst provides help to companies that want to invest in the city.
Icelandic company ships U.S. goods overseas
Eimskip, an Icelandic shipping company, is celebrating its 30th year in Virginia as well as its 100th anniversary of sailing to the U.S.
Shentel to pay $640 million to acquire Ntelos
Edinburg-based Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. (Shentel) has agreed to acquire Waynesboro-based Ntelos Holdings Corp. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $640 million.
Martinsville plant helps employees earn GEDs
Monogram Snacks Martinsville is participating in the Business IQ program to help the company workers without high-school diplomas work toward earning high-school equivalency certificates.
Zoobean makes its case at White House Demo Day
Jordan Lloyd Bookey and Felix Lloyd, founders of Arlington-based Zoobean, were invited to the first White House Demo Day, at which entrepreneurs from across the country had the chance to showcase their innovations.
Device is designed to halt texting while driving
Roanoke-based manufacturing company, Origo, received the 2015 Rising Star Award in May from the Roanoke-Blacksburg Tech Council.
