Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP), a strategic technology solutions partner, experienced strong growth in key strategic areas this year, including record-breaking YoY revenue growth, onboarding several new enterprise clients, adding a plethora of highly diverse GAP employees (GAPsters) along with doubling down on its robust giving initiatives. "GAP's 40 % growth in 2021 can be attributed to the incredibly talented GAPsters who dedicate themselves to ensuring customer success," said Joyce Durst, co-founder, and CEO. "Our talented engineering teams, coupled with a surging market demand for digital transformation expertise and strong client partnerships, yielded explosive growth for our company." The number of GAPsters increased substantially this past year, bringing GAP over the 500-employee mark. As a woman-owned and led company, GAP continues to focus on diversity in hiring and recruitment, with a focus in recruiting women engineers.

With the launch of its Smart Energy subscription plan this year in Philadelphia, Inspire fulfilled a major part of its vision, explained CTO Mike Durst from the company's Center City office. "Our mission is all about creating this brighter energy future," he said. "A pillar of that is getting as many people as possible on clean energy." The subscription plan combines a seamless sign-up, flat supply price, cash rewards (when you use less energy than predicted) and energy-saving smart devices to outfit your home. Also, Inspire's Smart Home app allows you to control the devices and monitor your energy use, all from your smartphone.

New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been assigned to an Indiana federal prison, frustrating his defense attorney, who said Sunday that he wants Durst sent to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the death of his friend Susan Berman. Last December, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office reached an extradition deal with Durst's attorneys. Durst, 73, was due to be transferred by Aug. 18 to a federal prison in Southern California after he agreed to plead guilty to a weapons charge in New Orleans. But Durst has remained in a Louisiana jail. His legal team learned Friday that he was to be relocated to a federal prison with a a specialized medical facility in Terre Haute, Ind. "It is contrary to everything that was agreed upon," attorney Richard DeGuerin told The Times.