Next Generation TV took another step toward commercial reality on Monday as Raleigh-based Capitol Broadcasting – long a pioneer in embracing new tech from the Internet to high-definition and now 4K ultra high-definition – and numerous partners demonstrated the emerging suite of forthcoming over-air offerings.
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A technology being tested at WRAL in Raleigh is front and center at the PyeongChang Games.
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The next generation of wow is coming. Are you ready to see it? Hear it? Become immersed in it?
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Momentum Learning, the coding school founded and led by former Iron Yard executives, officially launched Wednesday night at the American Underground’s original location in the Strickland Building in Durham.
Read MoreCapitol Broadcasting is the lead investor in a new coding school startup, Momentum Learning, that will be operate in Durham and Raleigh. Momentum is led by two former executives with The Iron Yard, a coding school that has ceased operations. It offered courses in the Triangle. Jessica Mitsch, the founding CEO, confirmed that CBC, which is the parent company of WRAL.com and WRAL TechWire as well as American Underground where Momentum will be based, led the recently disclosed funding of $400,000. And Mitsch says Momentum is ramping up rapidly. “We have already selected and hired our first group staff,”...
Read MoreThe Pinkubator, at Raleigh’s North Hills shopping center, targets startups with women at the helm or as customers. Cindy Whitehead is famous for selling the FDA on the first female libido-enhancing drug, but it isn’t just marketing expertise she can lend to entrepreneurs. The pharmaceutical exec turned venture capitalist and...
Read MoreHow it Started – Joe Procopio Well, one thing to note is there was acquisition interest almost from the beginning. I’m a working entrepreneur, and ExitEvent was something I started because I was convinced it needed to exist. Because I’m an entrepreneur, I built it like a startup — that’s pretty much all I know. I don’t know how to run foundations or dot-orgs, I know how to build and run companies. But because I’m a working entrepreneur, I knew I could never devote more than 3-5 hours a week to the cause. I invited 12 founders to the...
Read MoreYou’d never know Adam Klein was a betting man. And he’s not. But that’s the first thing that might pop into your head when I tell you that American Underground, Durham’s startup center located underneath the American Tobacco Campus, will be expanding a block-and-a-half away to 201 West Main Street with 40 private offices and 70 co-working desks. There’s a big press splash today and a big party tomorrow in Bay 7, but this is not going down without a lot of forethought. Adam and I first starting talking about expansion back in the summer, when he first took...
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