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Jaunt Air Mobility Lands New Investors to Help Air Taxis Take Flight
by Kevin Cummings | Apr 5, 2022
The new investors include Calin Rovinescu, former president and CEO of Air Canada, and Mitch Garber, minority owner of the NHL's Seattle Kraken. “eVTOL air taxis is an obvious next-gen hyper-growth area,” Garber said, calling them a way to change "how we move and facilitate a greener efficient global economy.”
by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 5, 2022
The investment from London-based online luxury retail marketplace Farfetch makes it a new minority owner of Neiman Marcus Group. It will also be a partner, helping NMG expand its reach globally via digital customer experiences and curated offerings on Farfetch’s platform.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Apr 4, 2022
DFW has become the epicenter of growth in North America, Danny Baker says. “We’re in the middle of a population boom that has led to DFW outperforming other markets in terms of job creation and growth as well as the demand for all types of CRE,” says Baker, who helms CBRE’s DFW multifamily capital markets team....
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by David Seeley |
Apr 4, 2022
Comparably’s list of the Top 15 DFW companies is derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees in Dallas-Ft. Worth who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com over the past 12 months. Here's the complete list.
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Big D Can Be Davos for the Brain Economy
by Harris Eyre, MD, Ph.D.; Sanjiv Das; and Kacie Kelly | Apr 4, 2022
Brain health is at the forefront of an economy that's increasingly knowledge intensive. With innovation spanning precision diagnostics and treatment matching to economic policies and innovative investment models, there's a "golden opportunity" to lead the brain health revolution.
"Dallas is uniquely positioned to lead the way for the state, the country, and the world," according to these science, policy, and finance experts.
"Dallas is uniquely positioned to lead the way for the state, the country, and the world," according to these science, policy, and finance experts.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 4, 2022
What companies are finding funding or having a big exit? From startup investments to grants and acquisitions, Dallas Innovates tracks what’s happening in North Texas money.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 1, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from Recreational Realty, Island, The Food Hall Co., McKesson, TCU's Ralph Lowe Energy Institute, ClubCorp, Lone Star Analysis, Island, North Dallas Bank & Trust, Ranger Investment Management, Susan G. Komen, and Texas Security Bank.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Apr 1, 2022
We’re fortunate to be living and working in Texas—and specifically in Dallas-Fort Worth—not just for commercial real estate but for quality of life and business as a whole, Alan Shor says....
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EVERY LAST WORD 2022: The Q1 Archive
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 31, 2022
These quotable North Texans inspire, inform, motivate, or simply make us laugh.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 31, 2022
Nexperia, a Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer, is opening a new design center in Richardson—its first R&D operation in North America—with plans to rapidly grow its local workforce. The new DFW operations will add to the other five R&D facilities Nexperia operates in Europe, China, and Malaysia.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 30, 2022
When it comes to the future of CRE in North Texas, Thomas Crowther is clear: “Every day I wake up in DFW, I’m grateful that I’m in the commercial real estate winner’s locker room.”...
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 30, 2022
Finnish Ambassador to the U.S. Mikko Hautala and a delegation of business leaders is touring the Texas Triangle to talk economic cooperation and new technologies.
“For us, the key message to Finnish companies and travelers is that there's also the U.S. South, and Texas is the center of that. You have a bigger GDP than Brazil," Hautala told Dallas Innovates.
“For us, the key message to Finnish companies and travelers is that there's also the U.S. South, and Texas is the center of that. You have a bigger GDP than Brazil," Hautala told Dallas Innovates.
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U.S. Patent No. 11,260,603 (Heat seal jaws with asymmetric teeth) was assigned to Frito-Lay America, Inc.
Dallas Invents: 119 Patents Granted for Week of March 1
by Quincy Preston | Mar 29, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baxter International's home renal therapy machine, Capital One's techniques to deploy an application as a cloud computing service, Digital Seat Media's digital record verification, Frito-Lay's heat seal jaws with asymmetric teeth, Kyndryl's enhanced multi-workspace chatbot, Neurolens' integrated progressive lens simulator, Poly-America's scented drawstring bag, RO5's automated pharmaceutical research utilizing context workspaces, Sortera Alloys' identifying coins from scrap, Texas Instruments' system-on-chip for smoke alarm, and Toyota's health advisory alert systems.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 29, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses.
The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 28, 2022
The website is a "growth tool" that highlights the communities, real estate, employers, and talent pool in Southern Dallas County with the aim of spurring investment and economic development in the region.
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