Last week, SBN covered the new networking event, NOLA Meetup, designed to attract technology talent, businesses, entrepreneurs, students, and more. Unlike Net2No and other top meetups in the city that generally have a single speaker per event, NOLA meetup has a unique format where each event has one keynote speaker and a number of other [...]
LifeCity is hosting its happy hour this month to raise money for the Committee For Plaquemines Recovery after the damage that was done during Hurricane Isaac. The Green Drinks “Zero Waste, Zero Flooding: Plaquemines Parish Fundraiser”event will be held next Thursday, September 13, from 5 – 7pm at Cafe Instanbul. There will be a suggested [...]
Today, Launch Pad Ignition announced a major change to the operations of their 2 1/2 year old accelerator program. Accelerator programs have been coming under fire nationwide as stories circle about poor performance, unclear advice, and a lack of standard guidelines and concepts. Locally, Launch Pad Ignition iterated after their first year from standard admission criteria [...]
Gameloft recently launched the space-theme, locally developed Cosmic Colony where users build up their colonies while defending against alien threats. This is the first full game to be developed in the New Orleans studio. The launch coincides with the year anniversary of the studio opening in Louisiana. Gameloft has over 55 million monthly active users [...]
Senator Mary Landrieu invited Google to host a “Get Your Business Online” event in Lafayette. She wrote that getting online is essential for businesses of the 21st century. On August 9th, she heard back that Google would be coming to town, hosting the event on Friday, August 24th, 2012 from 8:30am – 3pm at the [...]
Food loving duo Brian Bordainick and Francisco Robert have brought a whole new meaning to being a New Orleans foodie and the talented chefs in tow. They co-founded Dinner Lab, a mix between a pop-up restaurant and a vacation, designed to bring quality ethnic food to New Orleans in a different way than ever before. [...]
The last registration for the next Nola On Rails course is today at 6PM. As of this afternoon, there were still four seats left in the four week course beginning tomorrow. Classes run from 6:00 to 6:45pm three days a week and have a slightly different schedule than the last course. The differences between this [...]
Peddle is a social business community and marketplace launching mid November that is perfect for anyone wanting the easy setup behind an online store. Peddle provides an instant audience and they do all the work for you, providing sales and inventory tracking, social plugins, a customized URL, and more. When asked to describe the company [...]
According to Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation, more than one in three 10 to 17 year olds in Louisiana are overweight. To fight childhood obesity, 10,000 healthy lunches are being delivered to public schools throughout New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The issue of obesity is just one social issue that Propeller and its 2012 [...]
The men behind Phaze 5, Trey DeArk and Terrance Green, have created FLASHr, an LED flash notification case for the iPhone. The idea is simple. Whenever your phone receives a notification, it lights up because the system is powered by the iPhone’s LED camera flash. Phone calls, texts, and other push notifications become hard to [...]
