WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, an entrepreneurial ecosystem of digital communications companies, is launching a five-topic social media webinar series to help small businesses leverage and grow their businesses using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and mobile marketing. Social media is playing a growing and [...]

FRESNO – Electronic Recyclers International, the largest electronic waste recycling company in North America, is partnering with St. Anthony’s School in Fresno to put on e-waste recycling collection events at the school on Sunday, April 21 and Sunday, April 28 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., with all funds raised benefiting the school’s computer department. [...]

FRESNO – Seven local high school robotics teams will put on a robotics demonstration at the Fresno Ideaworks Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, April 21 at Chukchansi Park. Buchanan High School, Duncan Polytechnic High School, Edison High School, Christian Home Educators of the Fresno Area (CHEFA), Clovis High School, Clovis North High School, and Center [...]

OAKHURST – The Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau announced the release of a new mobile app available for mobile devices running Apple and Android operating systems. The new app allows travelers to have access to all the information available on their website, such as lodging, dining and activities, in Yosemite National Park and surrounding southern gateway of [...]

NEW YORK, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Video on demand.  DVR’s.  Streaming content.  Entire seasons of television shows collected in DVD box sets.  Americans’ TV viewing habits were once at the mercy of network schedules, but now there are more ways than ever to watch shows on one’s own schedule – and Americans are largely taking advantage [...]

HANFORD  – The Adventist Health / Central Valley Network Clinical Education Department has opened the new Simulation Lab to provide staff and nursing students the ability to train in realistic situations through performing standard practices with “fake” patients in a simulated hospital environment. The lab, in one of the units of the former Hanford Community [...]

DALLAS, March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly half of commuters self-reported texting while driving in a recent poll1, and 43% of those who did called it a “habit.” Commuters are texting and driving even more than teens – 49%1, compared to 43%2.  And the problem has gotten worse. Six in 10 commuters say they never texted while driving three years [...]

FRESNO – The Do-It-Yourself (DIY), Maker Movement sweeping the nation will soon hit Fresno – and a professional sports team – for the first time ever. The Fresno Grizzlies have released a “Call for Makers” for the Fresno Ideaworks Mini Maker Faire at Chukchansi Park on Sunday, April 21. The “call” is to find makers [...]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — With the March Madness basketball tournament less than a week away, IT professionals around the country are preparing for the office network issues that often accompany it, according to a 2013 survey from Modis, a leading provider of information technology staffing. The survey shows that 34 percent of IT professionals [...]

PITTSBURGH, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – A seven-year Carnegie Mellon University study of Facebook has found evidence of three contrasting trends in the amount of information Facebook users disclosed over time: decreasing public disclosures; abrupt changes in disclosure due to interface and policy changes; and increasing private disclosures. The 2005-2011 study, which appears in The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality and [...]

Nicole Emmert-Hamaker is the owner/founder of the very popular Pinch My Salt blog. She is a 2002 graduate from the University of Oregon who over the last few years came to realize that creating a meal in her own kitchen is not only healthier and more economical than eating out, but a lot more fun. [...]

HANFORD – Officials from Adventist Health announced plans and unveiled renderings for a new $40 million Family Birth Center that would be the new location for obstetrics and delivery services for families in Kings County. The new 49,000-square-foot building with 34 private rooms will be built adjacent to Adventist Medical Center-Hanford.  It will replace the [...]

SEATTLE, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — According to a new World Vision study, conducted online earlier this month by Harris Interactive on behalf of World Vision, more than half of teens (56%) say social media sites (Facebook, Twitter) have made them more aware of the needs of others. This is a huge increase from 2011, [...]

FRESNO – A retired school librarian made history with her knee on Feb. 11, by undergoing the first partial knee replacement in the U.S. with NavioPFS™ orthopedic surgical technology. Dr. Kevin Lester, an orthopedic surgeon at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, took about 10 minutes to meticulously carve away just the end portion of [...]

TULARE – DeLaval Inc. out of Vernon Hills, IL has brought a number of its innovations to the World Ag Expo this year, but the one that is generating perhaps the most buzz is its Teat Spray Robot, which sprays a cow’s teats with a sanitary solution prior to milk extraction.  The robot brings consistency, [...]

TULARE – Rice growers in central California are among those discovering the quicker, easier way the 24 foot-long GPS controlled GK Switchblade Scraper flattens out their land. “It’s a land plane land leveler that’s GPS controlled,” said Jim Wolf with GK Machine Inc., the company out of Donald, Ore.  that manufactures the blade.  “We can [...]

CLOVIS – Jared Eben of Clovis is currently one of 52 baseball fans competing for a spot in the 2013 MLB Fan Cave. All of the applicants submitted videos of themselves in a contest where the top 30 participants earn a trip to the MLB Fan Cave and earn the distinction of being a “Cave [...]

TULARE – People from 90 different countries around the world are converging on the World Ag Expo in Tulare from today through Thursday looking for exhibitors whose products they wish to purchase and learning about ways to grow their crops more efficiently. Jerry Sinift, CEO of the International Agri-Center, said this year’s show is sold out with [...]

HANFORD/SELMA – Families of same-day surgery patients in Hanford and Selma are now kept continuously informed about the status of their loved one.                                     Adventist Health’s new SurgiNet program provides electronic surgery progress updates on a status board in waiting rooms at Adventist Medical Centers in Hanford and Selma and at the KerrOutpatientCenter in Hanford. Families [...]

CLOVIS – The Clovis Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting/Salute to Business Dinner at the Classic Catering Company on Monday, Feb. 11 is sold out. The yearly event celebrates the Chamber and its more than 600 members.  New board Chair Ken May will be welcomed, and outgoing Chair Rick Snow will be thanked.  Fran Blackney, business [...]