Albany State University, a fully accredited unit of the University System of Georgia, is seeking a director for its Ronald H. Brown International Center. Claude Perkins, Ph.D., the university’s...
Author Archives: Phil Bolton
Phil Bolton is the founder and publisher emeritus of Global Atlanta.
Atlanta Seen As Well Suited to Help Israel Firms Sell to U.S.
Atlanta is especially suited to helping Israeli firms with cutting- edge technologies market their products in the U.S., but the state could better help the high-tech sector reach its potential,...
Israel Chamber Here Shows Neiman-Marcus Online Boutique
RichFX, an Israeli high-tech firm that set up offices in Atlanta this spring, has provided Dallas-based upscale department store Neiman-Marcus with the technology to create a 3-dimensional online boutique, which...
Georgia Agribusiness Fact-Finding Trip To Cuba, Oct. 7-12
Fuster, Adams, Rowan trading company (FAR), an Atlanta-based firm that organizes business, government and sports-related visits to Cuba, is helping the Georgia Department of Agriculture set up a fact-finding mission...
Commissioner Irvin Of Agriculture Sees Cuba Trade Ban Easing
Legislation pending in the U.S. Congress that would lift restrictions on selling food and medicine products to Cuba as early as October, is likely to prevail whether Democratic candidate Al...
PSC’s Burgess Reaches Out to Ethnic and Immigrant Groups
David L. Burgess, who is campaigning to retain his seat on the Georgia Public Service Commission, told GlobalFax last week that he “treasures” the opportunity to speak to organizations...
Finnish Companies Seek to Expand Into U.S. through Atlanta
Representatives of 16 high-tech Finnish companies visited Atlanta recently to explore strategies for entering U.S. markets through partners or opening offices here without having to go to the more costly...
French Export Incubator Sets Up Atlanta Operation
The French region of Rhône-Alpes has set up in Atlanta its first export assistance incubator in the U.S. to assist its companies export and eventually set up operations here...
Israel Chamber Boosts Effort to Lure Firms From Jewish State
The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce Southeast Region has hired a Jerusalem-based consulting firm, A.T.I.D. EDI, to act as its representative in Israel and recruit high-tech companies in that region to...
USFC Launches Videoconference Service in Japan
The U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (USFC), a branch of the U.S. Commerce Department, launched in Japan last week a state-of-the-art multi-point videoconferencing service originally developed by Atlanta-based Global Interactive Solutions....
