The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with tech and entrepreneurial news. Last week, the death of Steve Jobs hit hard at home, A few weeks ago SBN announced a call for nominations for the Silicon Bayou 100, a list of the “coolest people in tech and entrepreneurship.” The public is encouraged to nominate active participants and leaders in the local tech, entrepreneurship, and digital and social media world by this Saturday, October 15th, 2011. After you nominate someone, read this week's news:

The Silicon Bayou has been buzzing with news. SBN announced a call for nominations for the Silicon Bayou 100, a list of the “coolest people in tech and entrepreneurship.” The public is encouraged to nominate active participants and leaders in the local tech, entrepreneurship, and digital and social media world by October 15, 2011. Click through for the weekly roundup of developments from Silicon Bayou News in the past seven days:

Once again, it's time for our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by our partners over at Silicon Bayou News over the last week. This week we've got a pitch contest,$6mil to Pennington BiioMed, the ever popular NOLADex.org, and plenty more.