September 2016 News

September 30, 2016

• Tory Burch to Create More than 150 Jobs in Henry County

• Atlanta Workforce Development Agency Receives $1.1M YouthBuild Grant from U.S. Department of Labor

• Atlanta is #11 Hottest Homebuilding Market of 2016

• City of Atlanta and Invest Atlanta Announce Atlanta-Toulouse Startup Exchange Program and Participants

• SourceHOV Completes Acquisition of TransCentra

• The Ludacris Foundation Joins Feeding America to Raise Awareness of Hunger

• Home Chef Secures $40M in Series B Funding from L Catterton

• 2016 Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk Wraps Up Another Successful Race Event

• Vericor Power Systems Sees Success in China

• Atlanta-based OneCare Launches Innovative Adherence Management System

• VeriStor Launches New DevOps and Software Development Division, Forty8Fifty Labs

• Georgia Recycling Coalition Announces 2016 Spirit of Green Awards

• Sen. David Perdue Seeks Radical Changes to Budget Process

• UGA Launches Georgia Informatics Institutes for Research and Education

• BB&T Announces Settlement Resolving FHA-insured Mortgage Issues

• Georgia Sales Tax Holiday Starts Today for Conservation Products

• Five New Charter Schools to Open in Georgia During 2017-18 School Year

• Coca-Cola to Make and Sell Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Drink

• UPS Tests Drone Delivery in Massachusetts

• U.S. Department of Education Awards $245M to Support High-Quality Public Charter Schools

• 34 Million Have Already Started Holiday Shopping

• National Cyber Security Awareness Month Launches with a Call to Action for All Digital Citizens to STOP. THINK. CONNECT.

• Companies Becoming More Measured in Use of Cloud Computing Options

• Americans Still More Trusting in Local Over State Government

September 29, 2016

• Atlanta-based Healthcare Consulting Firm Synensys Opens Qatar Office