Three companies joined the Oklahoma Quality Jobs program last month, pledging to create 114 jobs in coming years in exchange for wage rebates. They'll benefit from state's Quality Jobs Program. One of the companies is AGIO Technology, a Norman based company. AGIO, a global information technology company, plans 74 jobs in Norman, for a maximum payroll rebate of $3.3 million over 10 years. AGIO serves hedge fund companies and opened this year at Three Partners Place on the University of Oklahoma south research campus.
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Computerworld listed the University of Oklahoma as one of only six universities nationwide to be included in the 2010 Best Places to Work in Information Technology list.
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Hitachi Computer Products (America) is building a $15 million distribution center in Norman that will add 75 jobs and serve customers in North and South America. A 203,000-square-foot distribution center being added to the Hitachi Computer Products campus in Norman is scheduled to be complete and occupied by mid-October.
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Joe Siano is the Norman Public Schools superintendent, but to him, he’s a teacher first. Ten years ago this month, Dr. Siano took the hot seat in the interview chair in front of Norman’s board of education to fill the district’s vacant superintendent post. Dr. Siano has been in Norman ever since, making a difference for our kids.
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Employees of Embassy Suites Norman Hotel and Convention Center recently celebrated the receipt of the 2009 Connie Award with a luncheon at the hotel. The award is presented to Embassy Suites’ top performing properties.
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David J. Arthur, President and CEO of SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. has more than 30 years experience commercializing products utilizing advanced materials, including work at such companies as Rogers Corporation, A.T. Cross Co., TPI Composites, Helix Technologies and Eikos.In this interview, we talk to Dave about SouthWest NanoTechnologies’ carbon nanotube materials and technologies, their commercialization potential and the environmental, health and safety risks associated with nanotubes.
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Even though many parts of the sprawling, 153-acre complex are a work in progress, The Links at Norman is currently taking leases and already has some residents living there. Located in southeast Norman, the 576-unit apartment complex will boast an 18-hole golf that will rival anything you will see in the state of Oklahoma.
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SEAM Aero, a company formed by OU engineering professors, got started last year with a $3 million EDGE grant. The company now has several clients and operates out of the Norman Economic Development Coalition's emerging Technology entrepreneurial center (eTec) near campus corner. SEAM stands for Shape Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing.
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With high prospects for hurricanes in the oil-ridden Gulf of Mexico this year, Norman-based Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., and America’s Emergency Network are again partnering to provide an emergency information tool to local newspaper, radio and television websites called the iMapHurricane! video widget. WDT is a former tenant in NEDC's technology based incubator, eTec.
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A national report has ranked three of Oklahoma's universities as the top bachelor's degree producers for American Indian students in the nation. Northeastern State University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma had the most American Indian students who earned bachelor's degrees in 2008-09, the report shows. State universities made up six of the top 12 schools, and 12 of the top 100.
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The newest kids on the Campus Corner block are a chef and barista duo specializing in all things cream, whipped or frosted, and the bean. Chef Ashleigh Barnett, and Barista and Manager Johnny Chappell, of Crimson and Cream, 331 White St. a bakery and coffee bar near Victoria’s Pasta Shop that opened July 9 are riding on faith in the powers of sugar and caffeine to sustain a business that opened during one of the economy’s less than finest hours.
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Both Norman high schools qualified for the 2010 Newsweek’s list of America’s Best High Schools. A total of 1,600 high schools made the list.
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Oklahoma City ad agency Third Degree was hired by the Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau recently to rebrand the city and attract more tourists, travelers and events to the area.
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With its thriving horse industry, Oklahoma was the obvious choice to start up a company dedicated to reducing the number of horses that have to be destroyed because of a common hoof disease, said Mark Williams, chief executive and founder of Innovative Equine Technologies. Innovative Equine Technologies is a former tenant in NEDC's technology based incubator, eTec.
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The University of Oklahoma’s Bizzell Memorial Library was recently recognized as one of the most beautiful university libraries in the nation.
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Hitachi Ltd. said it will invest 1 trillion yen ($11 billion), or about 70% of its capital expenditure over the next three years, on its "social innovation" businesses, which include its information technology and infrastructure-related operations.

About 72 percent more people hopped on Cleveland Area Rapid Transit busses, compared to an average summer day, during its Dump the Pump initiative, according to CART statistics. Dump the Pump is part of a national initiative to encourage people to use public transportation.
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The OKC Biz has listed a few Norman companies as Best Places to work in Oklahoma. Among the list are RiskMetrics Group and Republic Bank and Trust.

Van’s Pig stand is celebrating 80 years this June. Van’s has locations in Shawnee, Norman, Moore and OKC.
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