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Make no mistake: There will be times when Oracle Corp. jockeys for the same talent as your company. Top executive Steve Miranda acknowledged as much when addressing the annual meeting of the Greater Nashville Technology Council this week. On paper, Oracle would be a formidable competitor. Of any locally based company, only HCA Healthcare Inc. […]

At its core, Steve Miranda pegs his company’s decision to bring thousands of jobs to Nashville to two factors: winning the “tremendous battle for talent,” and because people want to live here. And he hopes it doesn’t do one thing to dilute Nashville’s culture. Miranda, a veteran executive at Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL), appeared in […]

Two tech media giants are joining forces. Nashville-based TechnologyAdvice has purchased Louisville-based TechRepublic, according to a news release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded more than 20 years ago, TechRepublic provides web, video and audio content to more than 18 million users, according to the release. It was previously owned by RedVentures and […]

It was July 2019, and we’d just received our first seed investment for my startup GraphiteRx, a B2B marketplacefor pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Our team was entirely remote at the time — back then, we were three full-time and three part-time employees — and we needed to decide where to set up an oIce and […]

One of Nashville’s newest tech recruits hopes the race cars zooming around downtown this weekend will boost business and even give a lift to its recruiting and hiring efforts. The first-ever Music City Grand Prix provides a key spotlight for NTT Data Services, whose Japanese parent company sponsors the IndyCar series and two drivers, including […]

The U.S. economy has made a remarkable comeback from the deep dive caused by the pandemic. Consumer spending (fueled by savings and government stimulus money) is strong, the economy recently added the most jobs in nearly a year, and the housing market is booming. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm employment has grown […]

Charles Carroll is the latest CEO to base his company in Williamson County, and he expects his startup to rapidly morph into one of its behemoths. Carroll leads Integrated Biometric Technology LLC, which on July 26 announced its decision to make Franklin its headquarters. Carroll, a veteran in the field of security and electronic fingerprinting, […]

Nashville has landed among the top 10 best metros for Generation Z in the country, according to a report by CommercialCafe. Generation Z (AKA — Gen Z): A collective term for those born between 1997-2012. This generation now falls within the 15-24 year age range, meaning that the majority are college-age + entering the workforce […]

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has hired more than 2,000 employees for its downtown Nashville office hub, and some of them began working from the company’s first new high-rise within the last month. Both milestones, which a top executive disclosed in an interview with the Business Journal, signal that not even a pandemic appears to have […]

Nashville’s tech workforce may be smaller than most, but it’s also the fastest-growing in the nation and one of the more diverse, too. Those are some of the takeaways from the latest annual analysis of the tech industry from CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE). The global commercial real estate company ranks 50 metro areas in […]