(Durham, N.C.) Responding to the urgent need among U.S. healthcare organizations to avoid wasteful spending due to inadequate communication and caregivers’ growing use of smartphones for on-the-go communication, Clairvia today announces the introduction of three advanced mobile technology offerings for the hospital enterprise and physician marketplace. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Last year, the cloud cognoscenti set out to clarify definitions. What is cloud? What isn’t cloud? What does it mean for the present and the future? This year, the focus is on adoption patterns and entry points — where enterprises are making use of cloud, finding value and gaining traction with their initiatives. (more…)

(Hong Kong) Intertek, the leading provider of quality, safety and environmental services, has helped Lenovo to assess the life cycle environmental impacts of its new generation of desktop – Thinkcentre M90z. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Mariner, an industry-leading business intelligence and performance management solutions provider is collaborating with Nuventive to build Mariner’s SeeChangeTM Plan product which improves institutional effectiveness by linking K12 district strategic plans and individual school improvement plans. (more…)

(Fayetteville, N.C.) The BRAC Regional Task Force (BRAC RTF) has named veteran economic and business developer Alfred J. “Fred” Papa as Economic Development Liaison effective August 9, 2010. He will serve the 11 member counties that comprise the BRAC Regional Task Force. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today that MCNC, an independent non-profit organization that employs advanced networking technologies and systems to improve learning and collaboration throughout North Carolina’s K-20 education community, has been awarded $75.75 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Recovery Funds through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) to support the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband Initiative (GLRBI). (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) President of the international strategic consulting firm F.O.C.U.S.(TM) Resources, Lea Strickland, MBA/CMA/CFM/CBM/GMC, has published her second column on innovation and entrepreneurship in the award-winning national financial media outlet TheStreet.com. Founded in 1996 by CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer, TheStreet.com receives over 7 million unique monthly visitors and 60 million page views each month. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, will collaborate with the European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN) to spread information about detecting and preventing health care fraud. The collaboration will expose Belgium-based EHFCN to a broader European audience and identify SAS and the SAS® Fraud Framework for Health Care as a “privileged technical resource” for health care providers and insurers. (more…)

(Garner, N.C.) WingSwept continues to increase its talent pool and has hired numerous new team members to work solely in the Vertical Marketing division. Repair Shop Websites, WingSwept’s Vertical Market division brand, is quickly expanding and rightfully so. The demand for the product is at an all-time high.Four talented account executives have filled their roles at Repair Shop Websites in recent months. Scott Johnson, Jason Middendorf, Kevin Potter and Nic Tyndall have hit the ground running and are eager to help repair shop owners find an easy marketing solution. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Geomagic has named Rachael Dalton-Taggart as director of marketing communications, further strengthening a management team that is developing the 3D software company into a global brand. Dalton-Taggart brings to Geomagic more than 20 years of experience in public relations, editorial, marketing, sales lead generation, and video and web content creation for 3D CAD companies such as Lattice Technology, Spatial, and Bentley Systems. She also headed up her own PR and marketing company for eight years, managing accounts for 3D software vendors from around the world. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) Medicago USA Inc. will locate a new vaccine production facility in Durham. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Medicago, Inc., a publicly traded company based in Quebec, Canada. The firm plans to create 85 jobs in Research Triangle Park. The project was made possible in part by a $128,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Medicago a $21 million research grant to improve the process of large-quantity H1N1 vaccine production using plant-based technology. The company is currently using tobacco leaves to produce pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines. Medicago’s project with DARPA will lead to a total investment of more than $32 million in Research Triangle Park. (more…)

(Winston-Salem, N.C.) Carolina Liquid Chemistries (http://www.carolinachemistries.com), the provider of the BioLis 24i chemistry system, one of the fastest growing physician office chemistry analyzers on the market offering more than 80 different tests and 16 drugs of abuse tests, has added buprenorphine to its expansive menu. Physicians are now able to perform testing on patients quickly and economically in order to monitor the potential for abuse of the schedule III opiod. Buprenorphine is intended for the treatment of pain under the trade name Buprenex® and for the treatment of narcotic addiction under the trade names Suboxone® and Subutex®. (more…)