Jay Chesshir floated the idea of something like the ARK Challenge, if not the ARK itself, for Little Rock to complement the proposed tech park.

Arkadelphia’s TrustedWills.com went live this month. Trusted Wills, you may remember, is the Ouachita Baptist startup that won the elevator pitch competition in the undergraduate level at the 2013 Arkansas Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup.

MIT economist Andrew McAfee envisions future jobs being performed by machines. From automated cars to warehouse robots, many non-creative jobs will go to the ‘bots, McAfee believes. And this, he says, is a good thing.

Big data came to Little Rock on Monday when UALR announced the opening of its George W. Donaghey Emerging Analytics Center.