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Greenville aims to become a technology hub
The Next Big Thing Managing Director Peter Barth plays pool on the company’s pool table, which doubles as its conference table. Greg Beckner / Staff

Greenville aims to become a technology hub

NEXT will incubate 12 young tech companies with big ideas ready to market

MAY 11, 2012 9:02 a.m. Comments (0)

Coming to Greenville for the summer: 12 software teams with bright ideas for the Next Big Thing, mentors from big-name companies to coach them and venture capitalists with dollars to get the best of them to consumers.

There’s more at play than taking high-tech startups to market. The Next Big Thing at the NEXT Center gives Greenville a chance to become the Southeast hub for smart technology, a sort of a Rocky Mountain Boulder, Colo., in the Blue Ridge foothills.  Continue reading...

 
New technology keeps hearing-impaired 'in the loop'
Hearing loop specialist James Stowell begins the process of testing and adjusting a hearing loop installed in Furman University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Center. Greg Beckner / Staff

New technology keeps hearing-impaired 'in the loop'

Hearing loops are revolutionizing public spaces for the hearing-impaired — is the Upstate listening?

MAY 11, 2012 8:45 a.m. Comments (1)

Lucy Woodhouse, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman, had never heard of hearing loops before two different OLLI members asked her if she knew anything about them.

But once she and Tim Hightower, Furman’s media systems manager, started researching them, they realized that hearing loops had great potential to help hard-of-hearing OLLI visitors.  Continue reading...

 
Taking chances in tough times
Members of the management team of the Windsor Aughtry Company, from left to right: Russell Smart, Principal, Chief Financial Officer; Bo Aughtry, Principal, President of the Commercial Division; and Drew Norwood, Principal, Residential Division. Greg Beckner / Staff

Taking chances in tough times

Developer Bo Aughtry looks to the future with Main @ Broad

APRIL 26, 2012 12:26 p.m. Comments (0)

When Windsor Aughtry Co. moves into Main @ Broad, it will nearly complete occupancy of the Greenville hotel, office and retail complex the company planned in good times but started and finished when the economy was in bad shape, costs were high and the future uncertain.

Those were not the times when most developers were willing or able to ride out a $45-million construction project, least of all one in a downtown urban center.  Continue reading...

 
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They're young and involved

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New technology keeps hearing-impaired 'in the loop'

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Greenville aims to become a technology hub

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