Month: August 2019

Get to Know Me: Data, Personalization, and Privacy

by | Aug 26, 2019
Fight #5 of Digital Fight Club puts Andy Chen, SVP of +1 Labs at Match Group, and Mike Orren, chief product officer at The Dallas Morning News and president at Belo Business Intelligence, against each other.
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The Bush Institute’s Podcast Talks Technology, Leadership, and ‘Strategery’
by | Aug 23, 2019
The Strategerist, hosted out of the Bush Institute's home on SMU's campus, features a wide range of both national and local figures. Season 1 recently wrapped, but listeners can expect an After Hours series—the most recent episode is on technology—and a second season coming out next month.
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Midlothian ISD Invests in Entrepreneurial Students’ Futures
by | Aug 23, 2019
The INCubatoredu program will be available to Midlothian freshmen and sophomores this fall and will open to all high schoolers in August 2020.
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Discovery: UNT Prof Helps Reveal Oldest ‘Cloaked’ Black Hole; UTSW Probes Hormone’s Role in Obesity
by | Aug 23, 2019
In this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also read about a scientist at UT Arlington who discovered bone-like particles in blood, which is a find that could help physicians treat life-threatening conditions.
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Dallas to Bring Leaders Together from Major DFW Corporations at the Hispanic Leadership Summit

by | Aug 22, 2019
AT&T, Texas Instruments, Pinnacle Group, and Southwest Airlines are just a few of the companies with prominent figures participating in the Hispanic Leadership Summit's first-ever Dallas event.
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Synthetic Reality: Does Real Even Matter?
by | Aug 22, 2019
For Fight #4 of Digital Fight Club, Farrukh Malik, CEO of Roomored, will go up against Steve Nix, CEO of ForwardXP.
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Raytheon Secures its Future in McKinney With New 200,000 SF Advanced Manufacturing Facility
by | Aug 22, 2019
Planned for completion in late 2020, the new facility will bring 500 new high-tech jobs with it.
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Find the Best Happy Hour in Dallas With This New App
by | Aug 21, 2019
Instahap is a newly launched platform that allows local businesses to promote their deals, while providing users the hottest spots in town. Founded in DFW, everything is local—there's BuzzBrews, The Henry, Vidorra, and more.
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Survey Says: For Employers, It Pays to be Flexible and Adaptable

by | Aug 21, 2019
Capital One asked 3,500 office workers—520 from Dallas—about what impacts them in workplace design and employee experience.
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Dallas Invents: 168 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 13
by | Aug 21, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining user frustration with voice control, AmerisourceBergen's pharmaceutical management and tracking, AT&T's apparatus for enriching metadata via a network, Encryptics' digital rights management of documents, IBM's secure medication delivery, Med Hab's dual case for fall detection device, MWD-IP Holdings' nuclear waste storage and monitoring, ShockWatch's wireless environmental sensor, and Varidesk's leaning chair.
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Uber Taps Dallas for Major Hub at The Epic in Deep Ellum, Bringing 3,000 Jobs
by | Aug 20, 2019
Dallas was the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012. Now, the city will host the second largest Uber hub outside of its headquarters in San Francisco.
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Irving-based Caris Life Sciences is Expanding its Footprint Here With a New Corporate Park
by | Aug 20, 2019
The Caris Life Sciences Corporate Park in Irving will increase R&D capabilities with a state-of-the-art precision medicine laboratory, create more than 500 jobs in the region, and help Caris continue to "reinvent cancer care."
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Silence: To Digitally Disconnect or Not

by | Aug 20, 2019
Meet the Fighters for the third round of Digital Fight Club: Jennifer Zientz, head of clinical services at the Center for BrainHealth, versus Michelle Adams, founder and president at Marketing Brainology.
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How FC Dallas Players Are Changing the Game With Technology
by | Aug 19, 2019
Major League Soccer has revealed that Reggie Cannon and the FC Dallas team actually use innovative sports tech—movement analysis software, tracking equipment, special vests, and more—to kick it up a notch.
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Dallas-Fort Worth No. 1 in Attracting Migrating Millennials, JLL Snapshot Reports
by | Aug 19, 2019
Data shows job opportunities, cost of living, and quality of life are top draws for millennials looking to change locations.
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Coworking Company Spaces to Add 4 New Locations Totaling 173,398 SF
by | Aug 19, 2019
Spaces has made a priority of expanding throughout both urban and suburban markets in North Texas.
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