RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Raleigh is in international news right now. I’m speaking at two tech events in Europe this week, and on my travels, I get to see mentions of my hometown in the headlines, hearing about this “Raleigh-based” or “North Carolina-based” First Citizens Bank (FCB) that acquired Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

RALEIGH – As labor shortages and rising inflation add pressure to today’s caregiving crisis, two startup founders are leveraging the gig economy to pair student caregivers with families in need.

CARY – The long-awaited Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) is set to launch on March 22nd, according to an announcement posted to Fortnite’s official Creative Twitter account.

CARY – Bandcamp, a streaming music platform owned by Epic Games, is the latest tech organization to see employees attempt to unionize.

MORRISVILLE – Lenovo has been ordered to pay US patent holder InterDigital a $138.7 million lump sum to settle a years-long dispute over licensing.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Organizations will spend nearly $1 billion on the “Future of Work” (FoW) in 2023, representing a growth of 18.8 percent from 2022, according to IDC. And more startups are developing FoW solutions to capture that growing market.

GOLDSBORO– South Carolina-based Cornell Dubilier Electronics (CDE) is closing its 204 Carolina Drive plant in Snow Hill and laying off 91 employees.

CHARLOTTE– Hunter Douglas Window Designs, a global window company with a manufacturing plant and call center in North Carolina, has informed the NC Department of Commerce that the company will lay off 135 workers.

RALEIGH – The potential of “Web3” tech is getting overshadowed by headlines about crypto, says Dr. Campbell Harvey from Duke University

RALEIGH — Pharmaceutical industry veteran Sandy Loreaux is the new CEO of Raleigh-based Bryn Pharma, the company announced this week.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Technology-related employment fell in February, according to CompTIA’s analysis of data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The latest edition of the WRAL TechWire Jobs Report reveals another drop in the total number of local job listings—to the second-lowest total number of postings for 2023.

RALEIGH – In an exclusive interview with WRAL Techwire, Mel Wright, Founder & Owner of The Wright Village, discusses Raleigh’s first Black-Woman-Veteran-owned co-incubation hub.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – March is a time to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women throughout history, and one of the best ways North Carolinians can do that is by helping to preserve and amplify the legacy of our state’s women entrepreneurs.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – CNN reported that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank created a wave of fear across the tech sector on Thursday and Friday since technology firms and startups are its primary customers. There’s been talk as well that SVB – which was seized by regulators on Friday – could trigger a wave of bad news for many other banks. But is this more hype than reality? Could SVB’s failure burst tech’s bubble?

CHAPEL HILL – The U.S. job market continues to outperform expectations despite stubborn inflation and aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. But will the Fed explore more rate hikes to slow red-hot labor market? Is a recession still on the way?

RALEIGH – Ticketmaster came under fire from Eurovision fans yesterday as hopeful buyers grappled with technical difficulties while attempting to purchase tickets for the popular singing competition. The tickets sold out in record time, but numerous fans reported experiencing technical difficulties such as being kicked off the site or receiving error messages.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The latest edition of the WRAL TechWire Jobs Report reveals a modest uptick in the total number of job listings compared to last week but a decrease in postings from the same period in the previous year.

CARY – NeuroVice, a medical technology start-up based in Cary, has received FDA clearance for its first-to-market seizure disorder device, the Protector Against Tongue Injury (PATI) device.

RALEIGH – Last year we heard about “quiet quitting”; this year, I keep hearing about “quiet hiring.”

If “quiet quitting” is an employee ghosting their employer (ex. simply not showing up to work, resigning by text message, or leaving a resignation letter on the desk without warning), “quiet hiring” is an employer ghosting potential candidates by filling an open position without publicly posting job openings.