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  • Raleigh's NeoNova signs deals to expand customer base in Alaska, Michigan

    Raleigh-based NeoNova, which provides cloud-based services for regional telcos, just inked a deal with Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative and Midwest Energy Cooperative.

    Specifically, NeoNova will provide email and subscriber management services.

    Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative is located in King Salmon, Alaska, and supports multiple communities, as well as about 6,000 migrant fishermen each summer. Midwest Energy is located in Cassopolis, Michigan, and provides electric service to 35,000 customers…

  • Highwoods Properties launches mobile app

    Highwoods Properties (NYSE: HIW) has just gone mobile, teaming up with MobileSmith to release an app that helps manage its property portfolio.

    The partnership is for a platform that will allow Highwoods to design, build, launch and manage apps – no programmers required. The app is available for Apple and Android devices.

    The first app created through the partnership is a native app for its Alliance Center properties that will allow tenants to navigate the buildings easily, as well as to reserve…

  • N.C. boarding school ranked as one of 'most elite' in U.S.

    If you want your kid to go to one of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools, you don’t necessarily have to look outside North Carolina.

    The Asheville School is No. 39 on a new Business Insider list called “The 50 Most Elite Boarding Schools in the U.S.”

    The ranking is based on acceptance rates, endowments and average SAT scores – 40 percent, $47 million and 1905, in the Asheville School’s case. Data for the list comes from BoardingSchoolReview.com, Niche and the schools’ websites.

    The…

  • France hunts for attack accomplices, deploys 10,000 troops

    France Attacks RallyFrance ordered 10,000 troops into the streets Monday to protect sensitive sites — nearly half of them to guard Jewish schools — as it hunted for accomplices to the Islamic militants who left 17 people dead as they terrorized the nation.

  • Key US military command's Twitter, YouTube sites hacked

    Military HackedThe Twitter and YouTube sites of the military’s U.S. Central Command were taken over Monday by hackers claiming to be working on behalf of the Islamic State militants. American and coalition fighters have been targeting the group with airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.