Little Bird Innovation and EPIcenter, both Made By Project partners, are kicking off a business plan competition, Operation Opportunity Challenge: Maker Edition, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, to spur solutions for some of the challenges entrepreneurs face in bringing their products to market.
Memphis International Airport has teamed with technology company Aira to provide a new service to assist low-sight and blind passengers. With the help of a remote-connected concierge, a sight-challenged traveler can more easily navigate its terminals and concourses.
When her daughter was struggling to learn how to walk, Yolandra Rodgers turned to hard-bottom baby shoes, which she couldn't find locally. Years later, she is now an online distributor of hard-bottom baby shoes.
Orange Mound was once a community of walkable amenities with sundry stores, movie theatres, and more sit-down restaurants. Over the past few decades, things have changed. And in recent years, bus service has become more infrequent.
Researchers and entrepreneurs in the biosciences and technology industry will have more resources targeted for their needs thanks to a new public-private partnership between the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis Bioworks Foundation, and TriMetis Life Sciences.
As a result of the bid process for Amazon's second headquarters, Memphis has built a roadmap of strengths and gaps for future growth based on what Amazon laid out in terms of its expectations – a quality labor force, ties with a strong university system, good transportation, quality of life, along with many others.
SILQ-EDU, an educational dashboard created by local startup SILQ Inc., can alert teachers to subtle changes in student progress, giving educators a chance to intervene early before a student drops out.
A stretch of the Wolf River Greenway formally opened on Saturday, Oct. 21 on the north end of Mud Island, transforming a former illegal dumping ground into a park-like setting.
To curb dangerous cost-cutting, Good Shepherd Pharmacy has partnered with the National Transplant Foundation to make pharmaceuticals affordable for recovering transplant patients in Tennessee.
While Memphians love their craft beers, Memphis has not been able to produce a truly “local” beer. But Agricenter International is working to make it happen with their research in growing heat-tolerant barley and hops - two of the main ingredients of beer.
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