RTP-based advertising and branding firm The Marketing Machine helped overcome the issue of illiteracy among medical patients in Ghana, South Africa in designing packaging for the only manufacturer of anti-retroviral drugs in the region, creating individual icons and colors to help patients understand which drugs they needed, regardless of their ability to read.

Two grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are being used by MCNC to expand broadband connectivity and services throughout North Carolina and create more than 1,000 engineering and construction jobs, the organization said.

U.S. troop level decreases and shrinking armed forces budgets will lead to increased competition and a change in business operations for military contractors in North Carolina and throughout the nation, according to defense industry contracting expert Lea Strickland, requiring a more strategic and tactical approach to developing professional, properly-designed bid proposals.

Innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm Montie Design is holding a Winter 2012 Student Design Contest for aspiring product designers in community colleges, four-year colleges, or high schools from North Carolina and Virginia, starting February 1.

The leader in analytical instrumentation for the pharma manufacturing industry has named a new COO responsible for manufacturing, engineering, software development, and project management for hardware and software products such as the VTT-1000 multi-variant testing device, breaking down barriers to speeding-up the drug manufacturing pipeline and cutting-down on drug shortages.