Nearly every facet of everyday life went virtual in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and education was one of the country’s biggest adjustments.
We previously told you about a number of local and national organizations deploying online resources to …
Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of …
Rare events, such as today’s pandemic, are moments in time when rediscovery creates innovation and new paradigms that produce quantum leaps into the future, said Dan Noble, President and CEO of HKS, Inc., an 81-year old Dallas-based architecture firm with …
The idea for HerStory started with a FaceTime call during the COVID-19 lockdown when “two preschoolers had just found out that their pre-k 4 class was canceled for the indefinite future.”
The kiddos got bored and their moms—Akola’s Brittany Underwood …
HomematchX, a real estate matchmaking startup that connects similar buyers and sellers, has launched a new platform intended to move the industry forward.
The Dallas-based company is calling it the only platform that “maps sellers and buyers’ real estate journey …
In what it called “a historic vote,” the Fort Worth City Council today approved a 20-year agreement for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (best known by its acronym, BRIT) to manage the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.
After years …
Since 2018, The DEC Network has teamed up with Capital One, which is the WEDallas founding partner and title sponsor, on the WEDallas Mompreneur event. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the two organizations still hosted the annual event—this time as …
Virtually overnight, businesses had to move to a remote workforce in the pandemic. With the increased number of people adapting to that digital transformation comes a greater need to keep the critical online infrastructure safe.
AT&T wants to help protect …
Dallas-based DocSynk is at a major turning point. The healthcare AI startup has landed key industry partnerships, worked on scaling its team, and is on its way toward Series A funding. That, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, led to …
Across North Texas, companies are promoting and hiring people to take on leadership positions within their organizations.
Dallas Innovates covers prominent personnel moves in Dallas-Fort Worth businesses and nonprofits—from the newest startups to well-established companies. Here are the people moves …
Dallas startup Ataia Medical took home the top prize in this year’s MedVentures pitch competition, which rounded out the event’s first-ever virtual conference on Wednesday. Startups from around the country pitched to a blue-chip audience of judges and investors from …
Optym, a global provider of next-gen optimization software solutions, is headed to North Texas.
Optym currently sits on a 10-acre campus in Florida, but Dallas real estate developer Billingsley Company announced this week that the company signed a lease at …
A new partnership between Dallas-based Infogroup and California-based Esri aims to give government agencies a better handle on COVID-19.
Infogroup provides data and real-time business intelligence solutions to enterprises, small businesses, nonprofits, and political organizations. In teaming up with Esri, …
Few doubt that the world and DFW economy have suffered a roundhouse blow with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a report released today, the Dallas Regional Chamber drills down into data that presents a historical economic snapshot, and …
In this weekly column, CEO of The DEC Network, Bill Chinn, interviews a “celebrity mentor” that is currently participating in the organization’s Fast Start Mentor Program. The program matches tenured business leaders who have handled crises to small business …
Dallas International School (DIS), an established private international school in Dallas offering a unique multi-lingual and multi-cultural education, has launched a COVID-19 webinar series that will discuss community-related issues surrounding the current COVID-19 global pandemic. The webinar series is set …
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, most academic institutions have had to cancel or postpone their graduation ceremonies. But Paul Quinn College (PQC) president Dr. Michael Sorrell came up with an idea for a virtual commencement ceremony, which has come together …
Amazon is opening another fulfillment center in North Texas, this time in Oak Cliff. The 855,000-square-foot site will be the first to open in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the opening of DAL3, Amazon plans to hire more than …
A myriad of companies and entrepreneurs across Dallas-Fort Worth have stepped up to produce personal protective equipment throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But a group of local innovators, all in various industries, had a different idea—create an entirely new device that …
Most companies have innovated quickly in the time of COVID so employees can stay safe and work remote. But for some, that’s not so easy. The global pandemic has the potential to slow critical operations at government and commercial flight …
