MUSC’s grant bonanza could spark biotech boom

MUSC's recent grant jackpot boosts the university into the upper echelon of medical research institutions, making them a major player among the likes of Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Yale and the nation’s other top research universities. This could lead to Charleston becoming a leading center for the nation’s biotech industry. Continue reading

Software firm picks Charleston

Transportation Management Concepts Inc., or Tramco, a California-based software and consulting business that helps food distributors manage their freight shipments, has picked Charleston for its East Coast operations center. Continue reading

Charleston ranked #3 among the nation’s “Entreprenuerial Hot Spots”

"Entrepreneurial Hot Spots: The Best Places in America to Start and Grow a Company, 2001" ranks Charleston, South Carolina third among the nation's top 20 small metro areas. Continue reading

Automated Trading Desk celebrates opening of state-of-the-art headquarters

Automated Trading Desk (ATD), the pioneer of automated limit order trading technology, officially opened its 68,000-square-foot headquarters. Features include 57 miles of copper data cable that support ATD’s data and telecommunications network, plus a network backbone comprised of eight high level switches (all are redundant and dual-homed for increased redundancy and fail-over). Continue reading

Conde Nast Traveler readers rank Charleston #3 among favorite U.S. travel spots

A new survey moves Charleston up among the largest cities in the country as a favorite travel spot. Readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine have named Charleston as the third-most popular getaway in the country, trailing only San Francisco and New York City. Continue reading

Charleston-based Skywaves Corp secures seed money to capitalize on 3G expansion

Charleston-based SkyWaves Corp. has secured half a million dollars in the last several months to design and build third generation networks in the mobile wireless industry. Continue reading

Charleston region scores high for available skilled workforce

According to a recent workforce report by Dallas, Texas-based firm The Pathfinders, employers considering locating to the Charleston area would be able to attract employees from a pool of about 64,500 “potentially available” workers. Continue reading

Inderjit Singh, Ph.D., receives Javits Investigator Award

Inderjit Singh, Ph.D., received the Javits Investigator Award recognizing meritorious research contributions in the field of neurological sciences.
The $3.1 million, seven-year award, was based on his ongoing research into the fatty acid mediated pathobiology in X-adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Continue reading

Benefitfocus.com and IBM announce project partnership

Mt. Pleasant-based Benefitfocus.com and IBM have announced a complete innovative Internet and kiosk-based Electronic Enrollment Solution for health insurance carriers. Benefitfocus provides the software application technology, client implementation services, and ongoing client support. The Benefitfocus and IBM offering is built 100 percent around Internet architecture, making the solution accessible to virtually any health insurance client or member. Continue reading

The American Forest and Paper Association awards its Environmental and Energy Achievement Award

The American Forest and Paper Association awarded Summerville-based Forest Technology Group its 2001 Environmental and Energy Achievement Award. Continue reading