As Monday morning rolls in, we’re providing TechWire readers with a quick recap of the past week’s news headlines.
Notable news stories from last week included: Burlington-headquartered LabCorp is rolling out a test that can detect both COVID-19 and influenza; the legal battle between Apple and Cary’s Epic Games continues; Walmart chose Fayetteville to test its drone delivery pilot program; Triangle-based IoT development group RIoT is expanding to Virginia and Colorado; Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is close to surpassing SAS CEO and Co-Founder Jim Goodnight as the richest person in North Carolina; Wilmington cloud software provider nCino beat analysts’ revenue estimates this quarter; Raleigh AI startup is hiring hundreds of people for work-from-home jobs.
Local and regional investors offered insights and advice to entrepreneurs at last week’s Startup Summit – read our coverage here and here. And read more local startup news in our weekly Startup Rewind and Startup Spotlight editions.
And, in national news: Top drug firms signed a pledge for COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy; U.S. job openings rose to 6.6 million postings in July, but jobless numbers remain high; Amazon is hiring 33,000 people for corporate and tech roles; 500,000 U.S. children have been diagnosed with COVID-19; Microsoft warned that Russian military intelligence is attempting to breach computers at over 200 organizations including political campaigns and consultants.
Keeping with our Monday “TechWire Rewind” tradition, here’s a look back at 80 local, state and national headlines as reported by WRAL TechWire last week:
MONDAY | September 7 Headlines:
- A busy October: NC events include All Things Open, Electrification, Ag Allies Conference, many more
- Amazon bans foreign seed sales in the US, after mystery packages sent to households
- ChannelAdvisor CEO sells nearly $2.5M in company shares
- Looking for a meetup? Here are 145+ industry-specific groups across the Triangle
- NC headliners: Previewing 47 events & program deadlines coming up this month
- SoftBank’s shares drop 7% on report about conglomerate’s tech stoch play
- Startup Rewind: From John Chambers pep talk to funding and more – a look back at Aug. 31-Sept. 6 news
- Startup Showcase: Here’s where VCs are investing – and how their portfolios are doing
- Study: Probiotics could help children, teens fighting obesity
- TechWire Rewind: Recapping 87 local & national news stories from last week
- Triangle headliners: Previewing 90+ upcoming webinars and other events in Sept.
- We keep expanding our Triangle Startup Guide with more funding, COVID-19 resources
TUESDAY | September 8 Headlines:
- Apple blasts Epic Games, says Fortnite publisher is hardly a ‘Robin Hood’
- Apple, Google, Dropbox face investigations over cloud services
- Bloomberg donates $100M to four historically Black medical schools
- Building 5G: Verizon awards Samsung multi-year $6.65B contract
- Deadline for CED’s GRO incubator nears – don’t miss your chance to learn from top coaches
- Disney ignites criticism after ‘Mulan’ credits thank Chinese officials linked to human rights abuse
- Dualboot Partners: The truth about finding strong tech talent
- Epic ups its game in challenge to Apple, Google with 3 free Fortnite concerts
- GM gives a $2B charge to electric vehicle startup Nikola
- GSK, Pfizer, other pharma CEOs pledge COVID-19 vaccines will be safe, effective
- In case you missed our Startup Monday package, here’s a recap
- Internet of Things development group RIoT expanding to Virginia, Colorado
- Introducing LimeLight, a new way to bring attention to companies, achievers in NC
- LabCorp launching test to detect both COVID-19 and flu
- NC-based Akoustis Technologies names former Grant Thornton CEO to board
- Novartis Gene Therapies is new name for gene therapy firm with growing RTP presence
- Potential COVID-19 treatment has ‘clear and compelling’ effect, says biopharma with US HQ in Raleigh
- Red Hat co-founder Bob Young offers these two pieces of advice for entrepreneurs
- Suicide, end-of-life videos challenge TikTok, Facebook, other social media providers
- Tesla ‘sells high’ in $5B stock sale but stock price keeps dropping
WEDNESDAY | September 9 Headlines:
- 500,000 US children diagnosed with COVID-19; AstraZeneca pauses vaccine trial
- Amazon: We’re hiring another 33,000 workers – and these aren’t holiday temps
- Carteret County hits trifecta with great education, top-rated health care and the state’s lowest tax rate
- Cree awards CEO $4M performance grant, sets 4 targets
- Donald Thompson: It’s time to start looking ahead to 2021 – crush it!
- Duke researchers seek FDA approval for solution to split ventilators between patients
- Epic Games’ CEO closes on Jim Goodnight as richest person in NC
- Is skid over? US futures climb after 3-day selloff hammers tech stocks
- JPMorgan Chase is probing potential abuse of PPP loans by employees
- Raleigh’s tele-coaching startup SoleLife heads to Techstars Iowa accelerator
- Red Hat , IBM make play for bigger cloud business share with ‘Marketplace’
- Study: Women are being shut out of collegiate esports
- Tesla shares tumble 21% – worst day to date – after S&P 500 snub
- USGA to relocate research center, other jobs to NC, lands $18M in incentives
- Walmart picks Fayetteville for testing of drone product delivery
THURSDAY | September 10 Headlines:
- A foldable iPhone? Could be with Apple reportedly ordering Samsung foldable samples
- After smash IPO, cloud banking star nCino beats Street in first earnings report
- A mixed economic story: Stocks stabilize but jobless numbers remain high
- Dave & Buster’s lays off 92 in Cary but says arcade isn’t closing
- Feds provide $2.3M grant to expand broadband access in Moore County
- GameStop to close more stores – and ‘there are more to do’ in 2021
- Going with the wind … Oil giant BP to invest $1.1B in 2 offshore wind power projects
- insightsoftware, which continues to hire in Raleigh, makes 14th acquisition in 2 years
- Job openings rise to 6.6M – but hiring also drops in mixed labor market picture
- Local developer leads an all-women team in new Chapel Hill Meadowmont project
- Looking for work? Raleigh artificial intelligence firm says it’s hiring hundreds
- Microsoft’s $500 Xbox Series X to hit stores on Nov. 10
- Naming of first woman as major US bank’s top exec lifts Fortune 500 female CEO number to 39
- New headache for Fortnite players: ‘Sign In with Apple’ ends Friday
- Striking UNC photos show how intense pandemic virus infection really is
- Triangle real estate market remains hot, land sales strong despite COVID-19
- Will change in Fed policy mean inflation and higher interest rates? NCSU economist says …
- Wireless internet service provider startup Open Broadband lands 12 investors
FRIDAY | September 11 Headlines:
- ‘Acoustic tweezers:’ In Petri dishes sound waves may be the future, say Duke engineers
- Agreements with developers will spur more solar power in US, Duke Energy says
- Apple to allow streaming game services but doesn’t bend on Epic, Fortnite
- Apple won’t block Fortnite gamers from ‘Sign in with Apple’ after all
- Cancer detection company with big RTP plans is going public
- Faster, safer WiFi is coming, say Google and CommScope
- IBM calls for limits on exports of facial recognition technology
- LabCorp expands footprint in Louisiana, Mississippi with an acquisition
- RTP biotech backed by Jim Goodnight says nitric oxide can fight COVID-19
- RTP startup targeting stroke treatment raises $1.9M, wants another $5M
- Russian hackers targeting US political process again, Microsoft says
- Survey: Pandemic driving 61% of job seekers to change careers
- Twitter says it will label or remove misleading election claims
- Web surfing getting faster in Pender County with $21M federal broadband grant
- What’s happening with climate change? NCSU researchers seeking answers
