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RiverStreet Networks removed from multiple broadband deployment projects in rural Virginia after years of delays
The company informed the state’s broadband office that it was unable to secure funding to complete connections to more than 30,000 potential customers.
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Tech Briefs: Regional business accelerators combine for program focusing on agricultural, forestry and rural concerns
Plus: Emerging Tech Conference seeks proposals for this year’s event; professor emeritus at Virginia Tech makes seven-figure donation to support undergraduate research.
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COVID-era strategy shift leads to exponential growth for CPR training startup
Roanoke-based Code One Training Solutions currently has 112 remote training locations. Its owners want to expand nationwide.
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Tech Briefs: Chandler Vaughan named Virginia broadband office director
Plus: RBTC’s Beer + Biotech events are moving to the new RoVa labs building.
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Tech briefs: Sen. Warner seeks comment on potential law for AI agents market
Plus: Energy Department gives Virginia Tech $2.8 million for a project to improve energy transmission; Smyth, Washington counties receive GO Virginia grant for shared industrial park.
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Investment firm to buy troubled tech company Luna Innovations
The company, formerly headquartered in Roanoke, had recently settled a class-action lawsuit for $7.3 million, after plaintiffs alleged securities fraud.
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Tech Briefs: Virginia Tech adds an artificial intelligence minor to its curriculum
Plus: The Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council offers Ecosystem Navigator office hours.
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Bedford County wants out of a broadband deployment project that is in danger of missing a federal deadline
RiverStreet Networks is seeking financing to complete internet service to nearly 40,000 locations in Southwest and Central Virginia. In Bedford County, where RiverStreet has about 950 locations left to serve, local officials say there has been no new work in about a year.
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Tech Briefs: New bill backed by Warner would curb energy costs, demands from data centers
Plus: An ARC grant will fund a Radford University study on AI and workforce development.
