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  • Apr 27, 2012

    Podcast With 2012 Economic Development Forum Speaker Joel Kotkin Touts Triangle's Economic Promise

    This podcast features Joel Kotkin, author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 and keynote speaker for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's 2012 Economic Development Forum taking place on Wednesday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

  • Jan 6, 2012

    Red Hat Announces Move to Downtown Raleigh

    Red Hat has officially announced its move to downtown Raleigh, coming just days after the company agreed to sublease 380,000 square feet from Progress Energy – a deal valued at $87 million over the next 23 years. Raleigh mayor Nancy McFarlane, as well as City Council officials and Chamber...

  • Nov 16, 2011

    RDU and Wake Tech Partner for Continuing Education

    Raleigh-Durham International Airport will partner with Wake Technical Community College to make the airport’s firearms range available to professional law enforcement officers for continuing education purposes. The outdoor firearms range is used primarily by airport police officers...

  • Sep 28, 2011

    Raleigh Ranked America's Best City

    After months of working with data, Businessweek.com named Raleigh as the No. 1 Best City in America . Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on 16 criteria including: the number of restaurants, museums, colleges, libraries, professional sports teams, income,...

  • Jul 5, 2011

    Forbes.com ranks Raleigh as the No. 1 Best Place for Business and Careers

    You may have heard that Forbes.com ranked Raleigh as the No. 1 Best Place for Business and Careers, but what you may not know is that this is the fourth time out of the past five years that Raleigh has been ranked No. 1. With low businesses costs (18 percent below the national average),...

  • Jun 20, 2011

    Rolesville High School Wins Major Award

    Wake County Public School System’s newest high school prototype, Rolesville High School, was recently awarded the 2011 Architectural Design Award for Best Proposed Project at the Council of Education Facility Planners International Southeast Regional Conference. The Council of...

  • Jun 16, 2011

    The Umstead Hotel and Spa given Five Diamond rating by AAA

    The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary received the 2012 AAA Five Diamond Award, a highly respected symbol of excellence in the hospitality industry and the highest honor granted by AAA. Since opening in 2007, The Umstead has been distinguished as a Five Diamond establishment all five years. More...

  • May 27, 2011

    Joint MBA/biomanufacturing degree to be offered at NCSU

    North Carolina State University has announced the launch of a Master of Biomanufacturing/Master of Business Administration degree. It will be offered jointly through the Jenkins MBA Program, part of the Poole College of Management, and the Golden Leaf Biomaufacturing and Training Center....

  • May 24, 2011

    Triangle is central for Smart Grid development

    The Triangle region has become a national hub for the emerging Smart Grid industry. Smart Grid is a digital technology used to monitor and regulate the movement of electricity from the power plant to homes and businesses. Over the next decade, smart grids are expected to replace the...

  • Apr 21, 2011

    Dr. Huang develops smart transformers

    Dr. Alex Huang, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University, is working to revitalize aging power grids. He is reinventing the transformer, which currently reduce the voltage of electricity allocated to neighborhoods so that it can be used in homes and offices. The...