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'Business'

Acxiom prepares to open its data vault for consumers

The New York Times reports that Acxiom, the Little Rock-based data management company, will begin Wednesday allowing consumers to see some of the information the company has amassed about them for use in its business.
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UPDATE Oxford American's Warwick Sabin to lead Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub

Leading the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, "synthesizes all of my interests and passions," Warwick Sabin said today by phone. After five and a half years as publisher of the Oxford American, he said the timing was right for him to leave and that he was confident he was leaving the magazine on good footing.
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'Specialty' chickens mean new jobs for Arkadelphia

An interesting wrinkle in an Arkansas Economic Development Commission industrial announcement today. Vikon Farms is going to spend more than $5 million to restart a former Petit Jean Poultry plant in Arkadelphia that will employ more than 172 people processing a special breed of chicken sold to Asian markets.

UPDATE: Bass Pro Shops pointing toward November opening

Bass Pro Shops, the 77-store outdoor store chain, tells me it is pointing toward a mid-November opening of its store under construction at Otter Creek.
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Ted Skokos sued by old friend in investment dispute

A regular reader alerts me to the appearance of a former Little Rock resident in the business page of the Dallas Morning News.

China bans poultry from Arkansas because of isolated avian flu discovery

Reuters reports on China's banning of poultry imports from Arkansas on account of what officials in the U.S. said was a low-pathogen strain of avian flu found in eight birds on a single Scott County farm.
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Entergy cutting 165 jobs in Arkansas

Entergy Corp., the multi-state electric company based in New Orleans, said today it would be cutting 800 jobs systemwide, including 165 in Arkansas.

Argenta Innovation Center announced

Businessmen and state and city officials announced this morning the creation of the Argenta Innovation Center, a place for entrepreneurial start ups in digital technology and engineering experimentation that will fill out the building now occupied by the Art Connection at 204 E. 4th St. in North Little Rock.
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Little Rock call center to add 200 jobs

Roby Brock at Talk Business reports on plans to add 200 jobs to call center operations at Fidelity National Information Services in western Little Rock.

UPDATE: Feds move to seize $17.6 life insurance proceeds on banker Layton Stuart, detail money laundering scheme, raise questions about death

A 46-page federal court filing Friday outlines a vast money laundering scheme by the late Layton "Scooter" Stuart, former CEO and owner of One Bank and Trust.
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Sam Walls retires from Arkansas Capital Corp.

This is news of interest mostly to a fairly small number of business insiders, I'd guess, but noteworthy.

Attracting young entrepreneurs

New York Times reports on the relocation of a married male couple, one a millionaire Facebook founder, so one of them can make a run for Congress from New York.
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