UYOA Virtual Cyber Security Student/Student Apprentice Job Fair

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Join United Youth Of America (UYOA), at 10am – 2pm EST, Friday, September 18, 2020, for the live Virtual Student/Apprentice JobFair. Book your time slots to meet and interview and hire the students of UYOA face-to-face. Meet the Cyber Security students and interview them live. Find students who may be your future employee or student apprentice. If you are a Cobb County Georgia Company or Enterprise, we have the funding available now. Your company will receive a six-month payroll reimbursement for staffing our students for an apprenticeship or hiring our graduates. Register for your time, pick which (one hour) time slot would you prefer to interview the UYOA students on Friday, September 18, 2020.

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GT Software’s Director of z Systems Dusty Rivers Wins IBM Champions Lifetime Achievement Award

Corporate Development | Devops | Fintech

GT Software, a mainframe modernization software company, announces today that Dusty Rivers, the company’s Director of z Systems Software: IMS & CICS, has been selected to win the very first IBM Champions Lifetime Achievement Award for Z.

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RAISE Forum Seeks In-Revenue Southern Startup Applicants

Corporate Development

Emory-Goizueta Led Event Makes Call for Startups Seeking Funding between $500 Thousand and $5 Million; Applications Close September 25th

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Zillow Group Makes Greater Atlanta its Southeastern Hub, Creates 200 Jobs

Corporate Development | Fintech

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PPRO announces 85% volume growth despite pandemic, accelerates plans with new investment from Sprints and Citi

Corporate Development | Fintech | International Business

PPRO, the world’s leading local payments platform-as-a-service, reports today an 85% increase in transaction volume from last year, highlighting the exponential opportunities for cross-border e-commerce amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Due in part to a massive digital shift in e-commerce consumer behavior, PPRO is now processing an annual run rate of USD 9bn in payment transaction volume.

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Four Out of Five Tech Executives Are Planning for the Return to the Office

Corporate Development | Information Security | Infrastructure | Marketing | Sales Leadership | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing

Survey of Georgia technology leaders finds only 31% of executives plan to implement COVID-19 testing for employees, but most will require masks

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The New Normal for Small Businesses: Owners and Employees Feel Both Uncertainty and Optimism

Business Process Management | Corporate Development

OnPay survey data indicates 1 in 2 small businesses turned to the Payroll Protection Program for assistance

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BlueFletch Validated As A Partner In Google-Led Android Enterprise Recommended Program For Enterprise Mobility Management

Cloud | Corporate Development | Mobility

BlueFletch, an Atlanta-based software company focused on helping enterprises secure, manage, and support their company-owned Android devices, today announced that its mobility management solution, Enterprise Installer, has been validated by Google for supporting all the standard Android Enterprise features for work profile, fully managed, and dedicated device management sets.

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Sharecare acquires MindSciences, fortifies platform with best-in-class digital therapeutics for anxiety, tobacco and overeating

Corporate Development | Digital Health

Sharecare has acquired MindSciences, the leader in evidence-based behavior change apps. Founded by renowned neuroscientist and behavior change expert, Dr. Jud Brewer, MindSciences provides best-in-class digital therapeutics that help people reverse unhealthy habits involving food, tobacco, stress and anxiety – which contribute to the most costly and widespread health issues in the United States. This acquisition builds on Sharecare’s existing partnership with MindSciences, through which its tobacco cessation program was made available to the digital health company’s payer, provider, government and employer group customers.

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TwoRivers ITAD Solutions Joins Terra’s “Done with IT” Mail-in Electronics Recycling Program

Cloud | Corporate Development | Data Governance | Data Science & Analytics | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | Mobility | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech

TwoRivers ITAD Solutions (TIS) has joined TERRA’s Done with IT program to provide a simple and safe electronics recycling mail-in option for businesses and individuals from their Certified R2 facility in Lithonia, GA.

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Technology Entrepreneur David Cummings to be Inducted into Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia

Corporate Development | CX | Marketing | Sales Leadership

Cummings will be honored at the Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) The Summit event on March 4, 2020 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. Sponsored by PwC since its inception in 1993, the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia includes a long list of visionaries, including: Georgia Gov. Zell Miller, technology industry icon Tom Noonan and CNN founder Ted Turner.

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Nolan Transportation Group Appoints Geoff Kelley As President To Lead Next Phase of Growth

Corporate Development | Sales Leadership | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech

Nolan Transportation Group (NTG), one of the largest and fastest-growing non-asset truckload freight brokerages and provider of third-party logistics services in North America, announced veteran logistics industry executive Geoff Kelley will join the company as president.

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Jewel Burks Solomon Named U.S. Head of Google for Startups

Corporate Development | CX

Jewel Burks Solomon has been hired as the first Head of Google for Startups in the U.S. and will be based in the Atlanta office.

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TAG Corporate Development Announces New 2020 Board Leadership & Members

Corporate Development

TAG’s Corporate Development Society is pleased to announce the appointment of new leadership and members to their 2020 Board of Directors.

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Corporate Development

The right collaboration technology has many benefits, but only when it is used to its full potential. When companies use technology effectively, they see efficiency, collaboration, as well as the morale amongst employees going up.

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