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Month: September 2019
[Illustration: Meena Patel via iStock]
DFW Cities Dominate List of ‘Surprising’ Cities Where You Can Make a Lot of Money
by Lance Murray | Sep 30, 2019
GOBankingRates' study looked at 188 U.S. cities with at least 50,000 households. North Texas cities ranked at the head of the class.
by Lance Murray |
Sep 30, 2019
On a stretch of I-35E adjacent to the Dallas Zoo, the deck park is intended to transform Southern Dallas and reunify the Oak Cliff community that was split more than 50 years ago when the interstate was constructed.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 30, 2019
At this annual event—coming to Dallas Market Center tomorrow—female entrepreneurs and inventors can get feedback, advice, and mentoring from Walmart buyers and other industry leaders.
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 28, 2019
47 teams and their creative crafts competed in the 2019 Red Bull Soapbox Race DFW in The Colony using only their own momentum for speed.
Here are the winners—including the Plano high schoolers out to set a world record for the 'fastest Bomb Pop.'
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Top row, from left: Arancha Gonzalez and Deb Gibbins. Bottom, from the left: Julia Simon, Mary Kay Ash (founder), and Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka
Mary Kay’s New Accelerator to Empower Female Entrepreneurs Around the World
by Lance Murray | Sep 27, 2019
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator will offer a guided digital curriculum—in six languages, and eventually for 192 countries—that resembles on-the-ground training and mentorship. In the future, funding opportunities will be available to women who complete the curriculum.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 27, 2019
In this week's roundup of North Texas research and development activity, you'll also read about a UTA professor who's investigating novel manufacturing technology to find more reliable temperature readings in extreme conditions.
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by Dave Moore |
Sep 27, 2019
Dallas is continually being recognized for its wide network of design-driven companies—so much so that the annual conference saw a 15 percent increase in attendance this year, the largest jump in its 12-year history.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 27, 2019
Headquartered in Addison and Toronto, Stealth Monitoring also offers analytics and detection offering aimed at deterring crime.
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A screengrab from "The Laundromat," showing at NTXFF. [Photo: Courtesy Dallas Film]
Now Showing: Dallas Film Presents the Inaugural North Texas Film Festival
by Kathryn Chavez | Sep 26, 2019
North Texas is red carpet ready as a brand new film festival, powered by Capital One, hits Plano. The goal? To position North Texas as "a viable economy for producing film and digital content."
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 26, 2019
The companies will unveil conceptual designs for the new data centers—intended to be a tenth of the traditional sizing—in November to show off the "groundbreaking technology."
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 26, 2019
The Dallas-Fort Worth branch of Mitsubishi Electric's Elevator & Escalator Division started in 2017 as a two-person operation, but steady growth is leading the company to expand the office.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 26, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas, you’ll also find news about Fetch, Figable, Stealth Monitoring, Solo Stove, BP Energy Partners, Integrity Marketing, a360inc, and more.
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[Photo: Courtesy Fetch]
Package Delivery Startup Fetch Raises $10.5M in Series A Funding
by Lance Murray | Sep 26, 2019
Fetch operates local warehouses, where it accepts all deliveries then provides scheduled, door-to-door service directly to apartment residents. The funding backs its national expansion.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 25, 2019
Track captains are in charge of creating and organizing the sessions in each track (AR/VR, blockchain, fashion, coding, social impact, and more). Applications are due Oct. 11.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 25, 2019
TXU's awards recognize corporate and nonprofit leaders in categories including energy management, innovation, community, sustainability, and engagement.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 25, 2019
Liberty Playground, a two-acre space within Plano's new Windhaven Meadows Park, intends to be an inclusive place for children of all abilities.
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