Momentum of Small Business Saturday continues to grow every year.

A Silicon Valley startup licensed the technology; it will use it in its own line of products. The U of M still owns the patent.

Local planning boards are sometimes criticized for giving rules exceptions to developers at the expense of residents and neighborhoods. But this month even St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - arguably the most popular and influential "developer" in town - did not get its way.

Plans to turn a 99-year-old Downtown warehouse into a pub will be reviewed by the Downtown Review Board next week.

A 120-room, boutique hotel has been added to plans for the One Beale mixed-use development. 

Shipping industry consultant SJ Consulting believes FedEx peak season volume will increase a relatively modest 3%, in part because of the expansion of Amazon's delivery network.

Dani Bowers has been appointed to Human Resources Manager at Paragon Bank. Bowers reports to Robert Shaw, chief executive officer at Paragon Bank. 

The service and distribution of donated shoes can help some people find employment.

A pair of $1 billion-plus Downtown development projects that would require heavy doses of public incentives are scheduled for an initial vote on Monday, Dec. 2.

Crooks will often create lookalike websites with URLs that are a character or two off from the real thing. More sales are being made using mobile devices and the small screens make it more difficult to detect the deception.

Jason Farmer was a Marine when President George H. Bush visited The Commercial Appeal in 1989 to award his first Point of Light Award. Thirty years later, close to the first anniversary of Bush's death, Farmer is the 6,656th honoree.

Two apartment developments totaling 487 units and more than $73 million in construction costs are about to rise next to a well-known Midtown bar and the city's 4,500-acre park.

The busy LRK has added 14 employees this year as part of its effort to meet the work demands created by a robust economy for new development. 

Goal of engineering college to double B.S. graduates in 10 years would begin to fill void in West Tennessee, which produces about one-third the national average of bachelor of science engineers.

FedEx volunteers and Operation Warm, a Philadelphia nonprofit that gives coats to needy children, combined for coat giveaways at Bruce and LaRose elementary schools in Memphis this week.

Memphis International Airport has added $6 million in federal funding for centralized aircraft de-icing facilities.

A highly regarded veteran of Memphis journalism, government and marketing has joined The Daily Memphian to write and curate a news digest that will be emailed each morning to readers.

FedEx expects to more than double normal package volume of 15 million packages a day on three Mondays in December, starting with Cyber Monday, Dec. 2.

Remember when it was possible to arrive at Memphis International Airport minutes before a flight? Those days are over, at least at peak times like Thanksgiving.

Adding a rural system allows UTHSC to schedule residencies and rotations in the settings where many will be serving. 

Cargill Cotton is now headquartered in a woodsy, spacious office setting surrounded by easy, suburban parking. But the firm is moving to a Downtown office tower where the views are panoramic and sidewalks are vibrant. 

Plans for a new St. Jude building with security fencing and a windowless, ground-floor wall ignited a planning board's concern that it would deaden street life in the resurgent Pinch District. But ALSAC/St. Jude officials won concessions, saying safety of its ill children is a priority.

Tupelo-based Renasant Bank's newly minted naming rights for the Memphis Convention Center are expected to generate more than $7 million over 10 years. 

An emergency shelter is planned in Westwood; in Midtown and the Medical District, a property owner is requesting its apartment buildings be "legitimized."

The Snuff District is the first of four big mixed-use developments around Downtown to recruit a substantial office tenant.