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The Texas Pinball Festival is coming to Frisco March 24-26. [Photo: Visit Frisco]
Texas Pinball Festival Flips Into Frisco This Weekend
by David Seeley | Mar 21, 2023
The Texas Pinball Festival will be held March 24-26 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Frisco Conference Center, featuring more than 400 vintage and new pinball machines, along with classic arcade games that will be set on "free play." The hottest new game designers will offer seminars and Q&A's, there'll be a screening of the movie "PINBALL: The Man Who Saved the Game," and lots more things will be dinging, flashing, and flipping.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 21, 2023
Stelmarksi has been the design director of Perkins&Will's Dallas office since 2011. According to Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster, "nobody has done more to shape the city’s built environment this century."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 21, 2023
The Samsung Galaxy Creator Collective—a two-day event designed to help content creators accelerate their growth and turn their passions into a career—is being live-streamed from Gilley's Dallas today and Wednesday. The livestream features more than 40 hours of content from the industry’s top creators and social platforms on Samsung’s Twitch and YouTube channels.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2023
Fident, a provider of virtual hospitalist telehealth services, offers a scalable solution to rural and suburban hospitals that delivers timely, accessible, and state-of-the-art care to their communities. That could help solve a growing national problem of strained rural hospitals across the country.
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Rexel Energy Solutions Gets USPS Contract for Up to 41,500 EV Charging Stations in U.S.
by David Seeley | Mar 20, 2023
In December, the U.S. Postal Service announced plans to acquire at least 66,000 battery electric delivery vehicles between now and 2028. All those vehicles will have to be charged up, though—and now a company whose parent is headquartered in Dallas has been enlisted to help. Rexel Energy Solutions, a business unit of Dallas-based Rexel USA, has been awarded a three-year contract with the U.S. Postal Service for the supply of EV charging stations to be deployed at Postal Service facilities.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 17, 2023
Agarwal will lead the Community Bond Task Force Committee, a 15-member group that will assist the Dallas City Council and city staff in reviewing and selecting projects for consideration in the 2024 Capital Bond Program.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 17, 2023
A new cost-of-living study by fintech company SmartAsset says Fort Worth, Arlington, and San Antonio are tied at No. 7 among 76 U.S. cities for "Where $100,000 Goes Furthest."
In the three Texas cities, a person earning $100,000 takes home $74,515 after taxes. But according to the study, that money is actually worth $80,124 when you adjust for the cost of living in all three cities—which is 7% lower than the U.S. average. See which city ranked highest—and where $100K is only worth a measly $36,000.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 17, 2023
Misti Meggs, Mohr Partners' new CCO, built the company's research, site-selection, and consulting services platforms to be "best in class" during her 16 year tenure. The services have been critical in providing corporate real estate advice to mid-cap and Fortune 500 companies, focusing on labor, logistics, incentives, and workplace strategy, says Mohr Partners Chairman and CEO Robert Shibuya.
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Revolutionizing Their Industries: The Enterprise Innovators of the 2023 Future 50 in Dallas-Fort Worth
by Quincy Preston | Mar 16, 2023
The future is now, and these business disruptors are leading the way. The trailblazers are among the Future 50, our editors’ picks of forward-thinking innovators who are shaping their industries and communities with groundbreaking technologies and solutions.
From chargeback management to urban planning, here are visionary leaders using cutting-edge technology and strategies to transform the industries they work in....
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by David Seeley |
Mar 16, 2023
In our recent 2023 issue of Dallas Innovates magazine, we reported on a panel discussion about family investment offices that was held late last year at the annual Venture Dallas conference. During the panel session, Luttrell spoke about the single-family-office LCM Group, and how it views startups as driving innovation.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 16, 2023
At 7-Elevens across North Texas, cars pull up to "slurp" down gas day and night. But electric vehicle owners may soon be joining them for their own fast, eco-friendly fill-ups, thanks to the launch of the new 7Charge EV charging network and app.
Irving-based 7-Eleven today announced the rollout of 7Charge, which has begun delivering "a convenient and reliable fast-charging experience" at several 7-Eleven stores locations in Texas, Florida, Colorado, and California—including at least two locations in Dallas and Fort Worth.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 16, 2023
Dallas-based Comerica Bank is bolstering its Small Business Banking segment with the appointment of three regional directors and announced the debut of several digital solutions throughout the year, focusing on payments and access to convenient capital....
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Baylor Scott and White Health Chairman Jack Martin To Be Inducted Into Texas Business Hall of Fame
by Lance Murray | Mar 16, 2023
The successful entrepreneur, businessman, and rancher is set to be honored by the Texas Business Hall of Fame for his contributions to the healthcare industry and his philanthropic and civic engagement. The founder of corporate advisory firm Public Strategies, Martin also served as the global chairman and CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 16, 2023
The new tenants include Engage Dallas, Housing Forward, PCCI, Teach for America, Texas Women’s Foundation, and The 2.0 Collaborative. The additions bring Water Cooler at Pegasus Park to a full capacity with a total of 32 tenants, ranking it among the largest nonprofit shared space communities in the country.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 16, 2023
Coworking in Dallas-Fort Worth is alive and well and ranking near the top of the list of markets with the most coworking spaces.
That’s according to a recently released state of the coworking industry report from CoworkingCafe, which leveraged the most recent proprietary data (March) to break down the coworking space availability in the 25 largest markets, as well as their size and distribution....
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 15, 2023
Texas Instruments says its new vision processors aim to bring intelligence from the cloud to the real world by eliminating cost and design complexity barriers when implementing vision processing and deep learning capabilities in low-power edge AI applications.
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