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The Last Word: Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker On Film Becoming the City’s Next Great Industry
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 22, 2025
Fort Worth’s film industry has boomed with nearly $1 billion in impact, 50,000 jobs, and Taylor Sheridan's 101 Studios planning to move its HQ to the city, NBC DFW reports.
by David Seeley |
Oct 21, 2025
Presented by the Rome, Italy-based Balloon Museum, “Let’s Fly” will feature large-scale artworks spanning over 65,000 square feet, luminous displays, and thought-provoking exhibits from 18 renowned international artists.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 14, 2025
Walmart has expanded its AI-first shopping strategy with ChatGPT-powered Instant Checkout. After rolling out “Ask Sparky” this summer, the retail giant is pushing deeper into agentic commerce. Industry leaders in North Texas and beyond are watching closely.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 7, 2025
Slated for completion in 2028, the new Dallas campus will be the company's second-largest U.S. office, accommodating more than 5,000 employees across all businesses and divisions of the firm.
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Australian talent management firm Click—founded by Emma Barnes, Grace Watkins, and Elliott Donaldson—is being acquired by GameSquare for $8.5 million. "When Emma, Elliott and I started Click, we had no idea what a ride it would be," Watkins said in a LinkedIn post announcing the deal. "When we started conversations with Justin Kenna & GameSquare earlier this year, it quickly became clear that together we could do more - for our creators, our team, and our partners - than we ever could alone." [Photo: Grace Watkins/LinkedIn]
Frisco-Based GameSquare Buys Talent Agency, Exits Ad Business, and Consolidates Tech Platform in Growth Push
by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray | Oct 6, 2025
In with Click, Out with Frankly. GameSquare Holdings is acquiring a top Australian digital creator agency for $8.5 million while streamlining its portfolio around creator talent, profitability, and onchain innovation.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 3, 2025
Michael Fernandez joins the Plano-based retail organization—formed in January through the mega-merger of JCPenney and SPARC Group—to lead commercial expansion and deepen brand partnerships across a portfolio that includes Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Nautica, Lucky Brand, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 3, 2025
As Simpli.fi doubles down on AI tools and B2B targeting this year, its new CEO brings in execs from Neustar and Epsilon to scale innovation and help clients navigate the evolving advertising landscape.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 2, 2025
The second annual culinary festival, curated by Tiffany Derry and Tom Foley of purpose-driven T2D Concepts, brings together nationally known chefs and mission-driven programming for a three-day celebration of food and drink.
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Histoury’s Portyl app puts a virtual time machine in tourists’ hands. In this AR scene, Roman soldiers march through the sacred area of Largo di Torre Argentina. It's one of several iconic Roman sites reanimated by the platform, so far. [Image: Histoury]
Built by Gaming Veterans, This Dallas AR Startup Is Reanimating the Past to Own the Future of Tourism
by Quincy Preston | Sep 29, 2025
Fresh out of stealth, Histoury launched its cinematic AR app for tourists in Rome—and beat its launch-day goals. Now the Dallas startup is targeting a $2B heritage travel market, one landmark and tour operator at a time.
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by Maddie Preston |
Sep 26, 2025
In a published study, Adelaide Lovett traced how synthetic fibers shed microplastics that can end up in human organs. She also co-designed astronaut gear to guard against lunar dust—a project that earned a NASA innovation award.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 23, 2025
The Last Word above ran through Friedman's mind in 2019, when he was seeing "Hamilton" on Broadway. The Plano-based plastic surgeon didn't just muse about it—he put his own music talent to work, collaborating with Laura Goodenow to create "cleaVage," a comedic musical "inspired by the trailblazing surgeons and brave patients who shaped the spectacular rise, equally spectacular fall, and ultimate resurgence of silicone gel breast implants—which were invented in Texas in 1962."
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by David Seeley |
Sep 23, 2025
If you worry that robots may be coming to replace us, you may have thought at least actors were safe. Think again. The newest cast member on "Only Murders in the Building" is a cloud-based, intelligent humanoid robot that can man a doorman's desk like nobody's business.
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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Immersive Adventure Will Have Its U.S. Debut in Plano This Fall
by Lance Murray | Sep 8, 2025
Visitors start by picking the kind of adventurer they want to be, then embark on a quest to retrieve a magical gem from a fearsome dragon’s lair.
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North Texas Innovation Is Boundary‑Breaking. Nominations for the Awards That Prove It Close Sept. 12
by Quincy Preston |
Sep 7, 2025
D CEO and Dallas Innovates have expanded The Innovation Awards 2026 with more individual and company categories this year. Now is your chance to be part of the region’s defining recognition for innovators.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 4, 2025
Michael Meadows brings almost four decades of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors to Dallas Children’s Theater. As the former CEO of the Dallas Zoological Society, he led the transformation of the Dallas Zoo into one of the nation's premier zoological parks.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 3, 2025
Sprinkled all around NorthPark, the 29th annual CANstruction Dallas design-and-build exhibit features 26 science-fiction-themed canned-food sculptures. The public decides on the winners by voting for their favorite and kicking in $5 for the North Texas Food Bank.
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