Ray Gronberg
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Durham, NC, United States
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NC offered $10.4M for Army Futures Command Center and was willing to do more, documents show
NC put $10.4 million on the table to win Army Futures Command for Raleigh, but couldn’t overcome Austin’s advantage: a bigger tech sector. → Read More
The line of IBM salespeople suing the company over their pay just got longer
IBM’s commission-payment practices remain under the microscope in two new lawsuits. The New York company, which employs thousands in the Triangle, is the subject of several ongoing lawsuits. → Read More
Cree says tariffs will hurt profits; Cisco is ‘in deep discussions in Washington’
Cree executives say President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports likely will cost the Durham company $2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. → Read More
The feds blocked Cree’s efforts to sell its chip business. Now it’s their future.
A division Wall Street considered a drag on Cree’s business is now the centerpiece of its growth strategy. → Read More
Look out, IBM. A Duke-led group is also a player in quantum computing.
The U.S. government is backing lots of quantum-computing projects, including one based at Duke University. → Read More
SAS turns to Texas for help in copyright battle, suing British company and Pizza Hut
SAS is suing a World Programming, British company, alleging that it has cloned its statistics software. The lawsuit, its third against the company, was filed in Texas. It is also suing some of World Programming’s customers, including Pizza Hut. → Read More
This app will pay you to go out for a beer
A new app called PintPass promises rewards for visiting U.S. craft breweries and answering a few questions. → Read More
Mom’s letter didn’t work; Epic’s ‘Fortnite’ lawsuit against 14-year-old can continue
Epic Games has “a plausible case” against a 14-year-old it accuses of cheating in “Fortnite,” a judge says. → Read More
Cree accuses employee of stealing secrets worth more than $100 million
Durham authorities are investigating a man accused of trying to steal company secrets worth more than $100 million from Cree. → Read More
Two German companies made a $9B deal. Crop researchers in the Triangle are part of it.
Because of anti-trust pressures, BASF was able to buy Bayer’s Triangle research labs → Read More
Faster internet’s coming to the Triangle. Here’s who’s getting it.
The Triangle’s biggest players are getting an internet upgrade. → Read More
NC school buys tech that can pinpoint where a shooter is and sound the alarm
The spate of school shooting across the country has led a High Point charter school, Phoenix Academy, to acquire a gunfire detection system that pinpoints where a shooter is and notify the authorities. → Read More
Can AI give hope to Alzheimer’s patients? This Raleigh start-up says yes.
Raleigh-based uMethod Health has developed an AI-based system to help doctors formulate treatment plans for Alzheimer’s disease. → Read More
Amazon’s facial recognition software wrongly IDs NC lawmaker as a criminal
U.S. Rep. GK Butterfield, who represents Durham, is among the 28 lawmakers that Amazon’s facial recognition software incorrectly matched with criminals’ mugshots, according to a test run by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. → Read More
Congress wants to keep defense tech out of China’s hands. It wants universities to help.
Defense-spending bill gives the U.S. Department of Defense the leeway to limit university tech-sharing with foreign students, researchers. → Read More
These managers claim IBM fired them after they argued a black salesman wasn’t paid fairly
Three former IBM managers have filed suit again IBM in New York, claiming the company fired them for questioning the lower commission paid out to a black sales representative. It is one of several legal challenges to IBM’s labor practices. → Read More
AT&T says it will bring its super-fast 5G network to Raleigh and Charlotte
AT&T will roll out its 5G network technology in Raleigh and Charlotte this year. → Read More
Raleigh start-up wants to make AI understandable. CEO Mike Capps has a record of success.
Mike Capps, the former CEO of Epic Games, says his new artificial intellligence start-up Diveplane has a better way than open-source code to ensure the technology’s transparency. → Read More
Epic Games’ former CEO Mike Capps back in action with a new company focused on AI
The former CEO of Epic Games is heading up a new company that’s working on artificial intelligence. → Read More
In the case of the disappearing Twitter followers, who in NC got hurt?
Twitter’s purge of locked accounts and bots, cost Clay Aiken and Scott McCreery followers. Duke basketball and several NC politicians also lost followers. → Read More