Week In Review: Electronic Arts, NuMe Health, Idea Village

Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news.   First, the most popular stories Silicon Bayou News published in the last seven days:

Electronic Arts Breaks Ground On $30 Million Digital Media Center – Yesterday, Gov. Bobby Jindal joined Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) Head of Worldwide Quality Assurance Mike Robinson to break ground on the 94,000-square-foot Louisiana Digital Media Center that eventually will be home to 600 video game development workers and LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology.  EA, the video game company that produces…

NuMe Health Raises $675,000 Series A For Prebiotic Disease Prevention and Management – NuMe Health, the New Orleans biotechnology company developing prebiotics for disease prevention, closed its series A-1 financing round and hired Dean P. Stull, PhD, as chief executive officer.  The $675,000 financing was led by BVM Capital LLC. The funds from the financing will be used…

Idea Village Now Taking Applications For Next Portfolio Class – The Idea Village, one of the top startup acclerators in New Orleans, is now accepting applications for its seed accelerator program, the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge (IVEC).  IVEC offers a six-month accelerator program to…

GolfBalls.com CEO Tom Cox: How I Started & The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Lafayette – Have you ever seen a custom logo or personalized golf ball on the green?  Well, there’s a good chance it came from Golfballs.com, a Lafayette-based company which sells a wide variety of name brand golf balls, personalized golf balls, custom logo golfballs, and other golf accessories.  Allison Good caught up with Tom Cox, the founder and CEO…

Startup Act Proposal Looks To Jump Start Economy – On the heels of the recent dismal unemployment report and data showing that new firms are growing slower and staying smaller, the Kauffman Foundation presented a collection of broad policy recommendations last week at the National Press Club in Washington.  The Startup Act is a narrowly targeted but…

LSU To Host iOS Application Boot Camp for Undergrads – The LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host for the first time the LSU iOS Application Boot Camp August 1-12 (10 day camp; not including weekends) on the LSU Campus.  This new…

Startup Open to Recognize Top Startups during Global Entrepreneurship Week – Startups experience small but significant milestones in their early days.  Like the proverbial framed “first dollar” that hangs by a small business’s cash register, these milestones represent significant moments in the birthing of a new venture.  The Startup Open competition recognizes and celebrates…

New Orleans StartupDigest – July 25, 2011 – This week I wanted to shout out the great project work done by the folks at BarCampNOLA 4 last weekend. They launched a new site called NOLAdex and if you’re not on their yet, you should be. There are a lot of attempts at mapping the startup and tech community ecosystem lately, and this is one of the richest and best experiences I’ve seen. Congrats to…

A Startup Act At Last – It is time to implement new methods to shake our economy out of this lingering spell of slow growth (a disappointing 2% rate) and high unemployment (hovering around 9%).  And while the large federal budget deficit does not leave much room for implementing more traditional economic remedies, the Kauffman Foundation—at a press conference this morning here at the National Press Club in Washington, DC—suggested it is time for legislation.  Startup legislation…