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Technology Companies Featured at Business in the Borderplex Luncheon
Technology companies located in the Arrowhead Technology Incubator will be the focus of the July MVEDA Business in the Borderplex luncheon. Featured presenters include Melanie Waller of MiniMilestones, Aaron Garcia of Silicon Mesa, and Mike Lisk of Remote Well Solutions. MiniMilestones has developed a sophisticated screening tool which will help assess the progress of children’s development in core areas, or milestones. The screening is quick and simple and will provide results on where a...
El Paso Electric, SunEdison Inaugurate Las Cruces Solar Farm in New Mexico
Courtesy of Energy Business Review El Paso Electric Company (EPE) and SunEdison, a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, have inaugurated a 12MW solar power plant in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US. Spread over 140 acres, the new Las Cruces Centennial Solar Farm, which was activated in May, is located near Las Cruces International Airport. The solar farm uses more than 48,000 of MEMC's Silvantis P280 photovoltaic modules which are expected to generate more than 32 million kilowatt hours of solar...
Dona Ana Community College Announces Social Media Courses
Creating Cell Phone Apps for Your Business It seems that nearly everyone is carrying and using a smart phone these days. Smart organizations across the globe are investing in building smartphone applications. The challenge with traditional smartphone applications is that development is highly technical and very expensive. In this four-week course, we will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how non-technical users can build, deploy, and market smartphone applications across Android...
Sapphire Updates MVEDA
Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Richard Coltharp On 100 acres in southern Luna County, Bryn Davis and his colleagues are trying to start a revolution. The revolution is based on one of the humblest living things on the planet – algae. If everything goes as planned, however, Sapphire will be able to provide fuel from the algae for planes, trains and automobiles. “We shy away from the term ‘biofuel,’” Davis said to the crowd assembled at the Tuesday, June 5, Business in the Borderplex...
Virgin Galactic Has Open House at Las Cruces Facility
Courtesy of the Las Cruces Sun-News, by Brook Stockberger LAS CRUCES - Virgin Galactic has landed in Las Cruces. Well, the company already has been working in town for a couple of years and opened an office here in February, but it held an open house event on Thursday for its Las Cruces facility, located in the building known as the Green Offices at 166 S. Roadrunner Parkway, the building with a curved bluish-green glass exterior. This venue is known for spending enormous amounts on...
Regional Prosperity without Boundaries
Three Cities, Three Mayors, One Region, One Goal. The First Mayoral Proclamation uniting the Region. Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, DoubleTree Hotel (600 N. El Paso St.) On behalf of the City of El Paso, the City of Las Cruces and Ciudad Juarez, we invite you to join us for for an exciting event: 'Regional Prosperity without Boundaries'. The luncheon event will take place on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the Downtown El Paso DoubleTree Hotel (600 N. El Paso St.) from 11:00 a.m....
News from Spaceport America – June 2012
FROM THE DIRECTOR This is the first edition of a monthly newsletter from the staff of Spaceport America. If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please click on the appropriate link below. We are very busy working toward our shared goal of delivering the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world. It is an exciting journey and one that often has no precedent to guide us. We participate in over 16 regular open meetings each year, in addition to many speaking...
Can Las Cruces Be A High-Tech Center?
Courtesy of the Las Cruces Bulletin, by Richard Coltharp Can Las Cruces be the hub of an economically booming high-technology center? The Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance attempted to find answers to that question at its Regional Economic Development Forum Thursday, May 17, at the Las Cruces Convention Center. “If you want to go after high-tech companies, you’ve got to look the part,” said Steve Vierck, president and CEO of the New Mexico Partnership. Based on the comments of...
Sapphire Energy Featured at June Business in the Borderplex Forum
Bryn Davis, NM Operations & Large Scale Production Development Manager for Sapphire Energy will be the featured speaker for June meeting of the MVEDA Business in the Borderplex Forum. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces, 705 S. Telshor. It will begin with a hot entree buffet. Sapphire Energy is one of the world leaders in algae-based green crude oil production. Sapphire built its first Research and Development...
Upcoming ISO 9000 Training Class Set To Start June 22nd
The New Mexico Economic Development Department, in collaboration with the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership is offering a low-cost New Mexico 9000 training class to help prepare New Mexico small businesses for the ISO 9001 Certification. The New Mexico 9000 training class will be held on Friday June 22nd at the New Mexico State University Albuquerque branch, 4501 Indian School Rd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The New Mexico 9000 program was created by the...
