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Google wins seven-figure DoD contract
Google Cloud, a division of Google LLC, announced Thursday that it’s been awarded a seven-figure Department of Defense contract to provide multi-cloud management. A specific contract award amount was not disclosed. The contract will be completed for the DoD’s Innovation Unit (DIU), which works to scale commercial technology a[...]
Snagajob names chief revenue officer
Glen Allen-based hourly online staffing platform Snagajob announced Tuesday it has named Brian Schmidt as its chief revenue officer. In his new role, he will lead business growth and expansion efforts. Schmidt most recently led global sales and operations at online travel company Tripadvisor Inc. He also previously worked at Googl[...]
Alphabet invests in Herndon cybersecurity startup
Herndon-based cybersecurity startup Expel announced Wednesday it received $50 million in Series D Round venture capital funding. CapitalG, the growth fund of Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc., led the round. CapitalG General Partner Gene Frantz will also join Expel’s board of directors. Battery Ventures, Greycroft, Index V[...]
Rise of the Rest Road Trip postponed
America Online founder Steve Case, who is now chairman and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based investment firm Revolution LLC, announced Wednesday that he has postponed his company's Rise of the Rest Road Trip, which was supposed to take place in April in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. A reschedule date has not been announced[...]
You can Google it
If it’s not one tech giant, it’s another. Ever since Amazon.com Inc. announced in late 2018 that it would open a second headquarters in Arlington County, discussions about workforce and real estate in Northern Virginia have fixed on the e-tailer. But Google LLC’s been busy, too. Last year the Mountain View, California-based global[...]
Subsea cable country
The scheduled 2020 arrival in Henrico County of a third connection to ultra-high-speed internet subsea cables should give the Richmond region bragging rights as a destination for data centers. In other words, it makes Central Virginia an alternative to Loudoun County, where 70% of all internet traffic flows but lacks a direct line[...]
On the move
Mark Blanks, director, Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, Blacksburg As more drones take to the skies, Blanks leads MAAP, which has built a partnership with Google parent company Alphabet to develop an autonomous drone delivery industry. Google’s Project Wing is the nation’s first FAA-approved commercial delivery servi[...]
The byte goes on
The tech sector is growing in Northern Virginia, prompted by Amazon.com Inc.’s $2.5 billion HQ2 East Coast headquarters in Arlington County and Google’s expansion in Fairfax and Loudoun counties as part of its $13 billion national growth plan. Also, a new regional coalition, the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance, form[...]
Heavy hitters
With 21 companies listed on the Fortune 500, Virginia is home to many powerful and influential business leaders but naturally some are more involved in their communities and exert more pull in the state than others. This year’s list of Virginia’s most influential businesspeople ranges from defense contractors, bankers and health sys[...]
Arlington machine learning developer receives $63M investment
Arlington- and Boston-based machine learning developer Carbon Relay received a $63 million investment from New York City-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, the companies announced Wednesday. Carbon Relay will use the investment to grow its Red Sky Ops platform for optimizing application performance in[...]
Herndon automotive tech company hires Google exec as CEO
Herndon-based automotive tech and consulting company Foundation Direct has named Peter Leto as CEO, the company announced Monday. Leto previously worked as head of industry for Google LLC's Automotive Retail Sales and General Motors business units. Based in Detroit, Leto will work on expanding Foundation Direct’s footprint there[...]
Fairfax tech firm names new CTO
Fairfax-based business and technology consulting company Customer Value Partners Inc. (CVP) named Keith Kapp as its chief technology officer, the company announced Thursday. As CTO, Kapp will oversee business transformation, technology modernization, data science, engineering and cybersecurity at the company. Kapp most recentl[...]
A larger rotunda
Alita Robinson, a second-year University of Virginia student from Delaware, delivers a personal message when she calls potential donors seeking support for financial aid programs. “I always tell people the only reason I’m at U.Va. and have these opportunities … is because I got a scholarship,” says Robinson, who plans to study educa[...]
Fairfax-based ICF to acquire cloud services provider for $255M
Fairfax-based consulting and technology services provider ICF International Inc. plans to acquire Arlington-based cloud services provider Incentive Technology Group LLC (ITG) for $255 million, ICF announced Tuesday. The closing of the transaction is subject to approval and is expected to occur in the first quarter. "IT moderniz[...]
Educators
When Virginia regained the No. 1 ranking on CNBC’s annual Top States for Business list this year, one of the factors that put the Old Dominion over the top was our “wealth of colleges and universities,” lauded by CNBC as “the best in the nation.” These are some of the educators, researchers and administrators who helped the commonwea[...]
Drone delivery takes off
Wing, a division of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., launched the nation’s first commercial drone delivery service as a pilot program in Christiansburg on Oct. 18. The drones made their historic first deliveries in three suburban yards, witnessed by dignitaries from the White House, the Federal Aviation Administration, Wing[...]
Drone delivery service takes off in Christiansburg
Wing, a division of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., launched the nation's first commercial drone delivery service as a pilot program in Christiansburg Friday. Flying at more than 70 mph, the 10-pound drones will deliver orders for FedEx, Walgreens and area retailer Sugar Magnolia. The drones lower cargo weighing u[...]
State government not holding IT suppliers accountable for delays, study says
Since switching to a model with eight suppliers providing the state government’s information technology infrastructure services, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) has seen significant service delays and has not held suppliers accountable, according to a study released Monday by the Joint Legislative Audit &[...]
Digital
Virginia Business has gone digital, and thousands of readers approve. Building on the success of our awarding-winning magazine, we’ve developed popular electronic products to meet an ever-expanding demand for reliable business news. In addition to our print products, subscribers now can enjoy Virginia Business online and through mobi[...]
Test flight
Look to the skies. Birds, fireflies, mosquitoes and other winged creatures from the natural world increasingly will be joined by swarms of drones as companies race to develop an autonomous drone delivery industry. Ground zero — or maybe now it’s sky zero — for Google will be the New River Valley area in Virginia[...]
