Month: January 2020

Dallas Innovates 2020 Thought Leaders: 900lbs
by | Jan 29, 2020
Q+A | Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations.
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Thought Leaders: Dallas Innovates The [Tech] Talent Issue
Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations.
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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 21
by | Jan 29, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's narrow band awareness for in-device coexistence, Capital One's ground plane detection for placement of AR objects, CareView Communications' method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Dell's time-based local authentication in an information handling system utilizing asymmetric cryptography, Genband's denial-of-service protection for IP telephony systems, Texas Instruments' data encoder for power line communications, and FedEx Supply Chain Logistics Electronics' apparatus for picking products.
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DI People: Match Group, MoneyGram, AVIO Consulting, and Comerica Make Leadership Moves

by | Jan 28, 2020
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves, you’ll also find news from PrimeLending, RealFoundations, Higginbotham, Ryan, Women’s Foodservice Forum, and more.
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Match Group’s Longtime CEO Mandy Ginsberg Steps Down, New Chief Executive Named
by | Jan 28, 2020
Match Group also named Gary Swidler as chief operating officer, in addition to his role as chief financial officer.
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Plano Restaurant Tech Startup OneDine Raises $5M to Broaden App’s Reach
by | Jan 28, 2020
The funding, which puts OneDine's pre-money valuation at $90 million, is expected to bring the company's table-side ordering and payment solution to restaurants across the U.S.
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North Texas Corporate Innovators Set the Stage for Disruption
by | Jan 28, 2020
From public-safety blimps to revolutionary data centers, North Texas’ giants invented technology in 2019 to make our world a little bit better.
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The Sinclair, the ‘World’s First All-Digital Hotel,’ Opens in Downtown Fort Worth

by | Jan 27, 2020
The Sinclair, Autograph Collection celebrated its grand opening last week with a Roaring Twenties party, and Intel hosted a drone show in its honor. The firework-like display featured 500 drones that shifted between themed scenes (and had passersby wondering what was going on in the sky).
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These Are the 7 Trends That Could Shape Our Future
by | Jan 27, 2020
Anurag Jain of Dallas' Perot Jain says there are seven societal trends ripe with investment opportunity, where tiny disruptors can change industries. Here are the trends, along with North Texas companies that play in each space.
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The USPTO is Now Accepting National Medal of Technology and Innovation Nominations
by | Jan 27, 2020
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is accepting nominations until April 3.
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Thought Leaders: Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas
Q+A | Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations.
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Thought Leaders: BG Staffing
by | Jan 27, 2020
Q+A | Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations.
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UNT’s College of Merchandising, Hospitality, and Tourism is Overhauling Denton Square
by | Jan 24, 2020
With artist and retail industry veteran Kristen Kendrick Bigley brought in as the CoLaboratory's new director, the work on the University of North Texas' Denton Square space is underway.
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Q+A: How Fidelity’s Head of Talent Management Flips the Script on HR Tech
Fidelity Investments' Andrea Hough says organizations often start by choosing technology that will help employees. But at Fidelity, she and her team work backwards: They start with an ideal employee experience, then they explore the tech that could help them get there.
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