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Imaginuity's Virtual AI Influencer Cindy [Image: Amaginuity]
Dallas’ Imaginuity Launches an AI-Created ‘Virtual Shopping Bestie’ Named Cindy
by David Seeley | Apr 16, 2024
Now appearing on the websites of 13 JLL-managed shopping centers across the U.S., "Cindy" may seem like just another influencer peddling perfume and athleisure. But she's really a "complex mix of generative AI tools driven by a proprietary recipe of procedures, prompts, and modeling."
by Lance Murray |
Apr 15, 2024
Under the agreement, Bitech will acquire battery energy storage systems and solar projects with estimated capacity of up to 5.8 GW. The move underscores a "unified commitment" to advancing the development of projects in the U.S. including in Texas, Arizona, and Louisiana, the companies said.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 15, 2024
Nearshoring America EXPO will connect brands and their representatives with "vetted factories and supply chain service providers" from Mexico and Latin America. Attendees are importers of gifts, home furnishings, and apparel accessories seeking OEM product sources, project manufacturing services, and full-scale product development partnerships.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 15, 2024
Edged Dallas will be built for high-density AI workloads and equipped with advanced waterless cooling and ultra-efficient energy systems. It's expected to open in the fall.
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L to R: Daniel L. Jones, Encore Wire’s Chairman, President and CEO; Massimo Battaini, Prysmian designated Group CEO [Photos: Encore Wire/Prysmian]
McKinney’s Encore Wire Acquired by Italy’s Prysmian in $4B-Plus Deal
by Lance Murray | Apr 15, 2024
The expansive North Texas manufacturer of copper and aluminum for residential, commercial, and industrial wire needs is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker WIRE. After the deal closes, Prysmian said it expects to maintain a significant presence at Encore Wire’s vertically-integrated, single-site campus in McKinney.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 15, 2024
Returning to the U.S. for the first time in seven years, the Corporate Council on Africa’s annual U.S.-Africa Business Summit will be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas. With consumer spending in Africa slated to hit $2 trillion in 2025—and with some of the largest African diasporas living right here in North Texas—the summit could offer "immense business opportunities," the city said.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 12, 2024
Michael Wheat has been appointed as managing director of the North Texas Retail Group by Dallas-based real estate services giant JLL, marking a significant step in the expansion of retail services across Dallas-Fort Worth....
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 12, 2024
BKV Group has added Melanie N. Hanna as director of interior design and senior associate working on its Dallas practice site.
Washington, D.C.-based BKV Group is a holistic, multidisciplinary design firm....
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Arctos Operating Partner, Brian Lafemina [Photo, Brian Lafemina; background, DI Studio]
Dallas’ Arctos Adds Industry Veteran as Operating Partner
by Lance Murray | Apr 12, 2024
Dallas-based private investment firm Arctos has added Brian Lafemina as operating partner of the firm that provides custom-made growth and liquidity solutions, innovative thought partnership, and value creation services to sports franchises (Arctos Sports) and alternative asset managers (Arctos Keystone).
“With the demand for sports as an asset class continuing to grow, Brian’s data-centric approach to operations and revenue is extremely valuable to Arctos and its partners,” Ian Charles, co-founder and co-managing partner of Arctos, said in a statement....
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 12, 2024
Donald Quintin has been appointed chief executive officer and global president of Dallas-based Lone Star, a global private equity firm.
Quintin joined Lone Star in 2010 and has served in multiple leadership positions, most recently as president of opportunity funds overseeing the origination and operations of the Opportunity Fund and the Residential Mortgage Fund strategies....
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by David Seeley |
Apr 12, 2024
From a 60-foot-tall waterslide tower to a huge lagoon ringed by a white-sand beach, Megatel Homes' AnaCapri development is slated to have amenities galore. If you've got a surfboard, wax it up: the community will even have a FlowRider wave pool for standing-wave surfing.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 12, 2024
Fort Worth-based airport consultancy Paslay Group has appointed Kris Vogt, a professional engineer with three decades’ experience in program, project, and construction management, as the first director of operations for its PG Executive Program Management division....
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Photo taken by a U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules flying over North Field, Tinian, Marianna Islands, during Cope North 15, Feb. 26, 2015. North Field served as the World War II headquarters for the 509th Composite Group that launched the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August of 1945. [Photo: U.S. Air Force]
The Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan Took Off from Tinian. Now Irving-Based Fluor Is Getting $409M To Help Make It a Stronghold Again
by David Seeley | Apr 12, 2024
Nearly 80 years after two B-29s took off from Tinian and hastened the end of World War II, geopolitical tensions have put the island—part of a U.S. territory—back on the radar of U.S. Air Force strategic planning.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 12, 2024
Based in Dallas and Fort Worth, the four local entrepreneurs pursue missions ranging from making healthy hair care accessible to all to turning locations into landmarks to blazing new trails in influencer marketing.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 11, 2024
American Aero operates on a 31-acre fixed base operator campus with 247,000 square feet of hangar and office space, and the largest open ramp on the field of more than 11 acres.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 11, 2024
The services may vary by location, Walmart said, but include same-day primary care, dental, behavioral health, labs, X-ray, community health, and telehealth.
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