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ROMCO's Existing And New Territory [Map: ROMCO]
Carrollton’s ROMCO Equipment Acquires Sierra Machinery, Expands Into New Mexico
by Lance Murray | Jul 27, 2023
Founded in 1981, Sierra Machinery is a premier full-service distributor of construction, mining, and industrial equipment, representing Volvo Construction Equipment, Doosan, Gradall Excavators, Chicago Pneumatic, Gomaco, Terex MPS, Etnyre, and Epiroc, Superior Broom, Bomag, and SkyJack. ROMCO goes back even further, serving the Texas equipment market since 1961.
by David Seeley |
Jul 27, 2023
Six months after an innovation-focused rebrand, Hyosung Innovue has rolled out a new line of innovative ATMs. If all you're looking for is a $20 bill, the machines will be so disappointed.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 27, 2023
The forum aims to ensure safe and responsible development of frontier AI models that could "exceed the capabilities currently present in the most advanced existing models." A core objective: Collaborating with policymakers, academics, civil society, and companies to share knowledge about trust and safety risks. "We're all going to need to work together to make sure AI benefits everyone," said Google and Alphabet's president of global affairs.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 26, 2023
A leader in the multi-billion-dollar North American market, Southwire has delivered power to customers worldwide for more than 70 years. See when its huge new Fort Worth customer service center will be completed—and how many will work there.
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Rendering of the entrance to the 50-story Santander Tower and its 14 floors of luxury apartments. [Image: Woods Capital]
Report: Dallas Among Top 10 U.S. Cities in Future Conversions of (Mostly Office) Buildings Into Apartments
by David Seeley | Jul 26, 2023
According to a new RentCafe report, Dallas is on track to add 1,912 additional apartment conversions in coming years, placing it No. 10 in the U.S. in the category. And 80% of those adaptive reuse projects will be in office buildings, exceeding the share in L.A., New York City, and Chicago.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 26, 2023
The local BeyHive's buzzing about the September 21 Beyoncé concert at AT&T Stadium. Lexus has signed on as a U.S. tour sponsoring partner—and is providing $20,000 in each tour city to help small, minority-owned businesses through the BeyGOOD Foundation.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Jul 26, 2023
MassChallenge brought together more than 200 startups, investors, and corporates from the U.S. and beyond for a three-day gathering at Dallas' Pegasus Park. The Boston-based nonprofit accelerator, which expanded to North Texas last year, showcased its new hub as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 26, 2023
Drawing from his own powerful lesson after losing a multimillion-dollar deal, TransPharMed CEO Kirk Barnes helps founders and leaders to be primed and ready to connect when opportunity knocks. Will Magruder, VP of partnerships at MassChallenge, lends his expertise to crafting a "handshake pitch" in nine words or less. Here's how.
Plus, the votes are in. MassChallenge announced its Handshake Pitch Winners at Pegasus Park: “We're the Tesla of jet skis,” “Net-zero concrete by 2050 by 2022," "We personalize treatment down to your genes," and more.
Plus, the votes are in. MassChallenge announced its Handshake Pitch Winners at Pegasus Park: “We're the Tesla of jet skis,” “Net-zero concrete by 2050 by 2022," "We personalize treatment down to your genes," and more.
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JW Marriott Dallas Arts District [Photo: JW Marriott]
JW Marriott Dallas Arts District Opens as Modern Addition to Downtown Skyscape
by David Seeley | Jul 26, 2023
Built with architectural inventiveness over a massive parking garage, the 267-room luxury hotel features three restaurants, two lobby spaces, and over 20,000 square feet of flexible meeting space. Coolest attraction? The stunning Arts District views from its 'mid-air pool' and the nearby sky-level terrace bar, Vincent's.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Jul 26, 2023
The Boston-based nonprofit accelerator prepares to launch Human Potential Program with a Demo Day in Dallas, seeks North Texas corporate partners.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 26, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 1974 Productions delivering music content to a smart phone, Amazon's answer time prediction in a contact center service of a provider network, Anaplan's system for creating and maintaining a data hub in a distributed system, AT&T, Emory University's method for mitigating international revenue share fraud, Below Zero Sport's body cooling article of clothing, Forcepoint's fuzzy matching and alias matching for streaming data sets, Global Tel*Link's personalized chatbots for inmates, and Siemens Industry Software's message monitoring.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 25, 2023
Uniting two health tech innovators, Dallas-based unicorn Axxess has strategically acquired Complia Health, accelerating its quest to revolutionize home health tech solutions for providers.
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Fort Worth's planned National Juneteenth Museum is designed by the New York office of Denmark-based Bjarke Ingels Group. [Rendering courtesy City of Fort Worth]
Bank of America Awards $1M Grant to Fort Worth’s National Juneteenth Museum
by David Seeley | Jul 25, 2023
"The National Juneteenth Museum will be a social and economic anchor in Fort Worth that will serve as a catalyst for community education and growth," Mike Pavell, Bank of America Fort Worth president, said in announcing the $1 million grant.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 25, 2023
Awarded to 101 community-based organizations across the state—including many in North Texas—the Blue Impact grants focus on health care access and target impacts of socio-economic and social determinants of health.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 24, 2023
The new program extends the companies' 2023 charitable initiative underway in Europe, where 65,000 trees are already slated to be planted in Germany, England, and Ireland.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 24, 2023
At both Topgolf and Dave & Busters, the exec led efforts "that nearly doubled unit count and increased average unit volume by double digits, and that growth mindset is key to what we want to achieve at Nothing Bundt Cakes," Roark Capital Managing Director Sarah Spiegel said.
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