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Fort Worth Entrepreneur Launches ‘The FoundHers Club’ Podcast to Feature Women Entrepreneurs

by | Jan 24, 2022
CreateHers. BuildHers. DisruptHers. Risk-TakHers. InventHers. InvestHers.

Texas women trailblazing new paths are the subject of a new podcast that features innovators disrupting their industries, building movements, and creating positive social change.
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DI People: Comerica, CMI Group, Cyber Defense Labs, Energy Transfer, CASPR Group and More Make Moves
by | Jan 21, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from Polte, Commercial Metals, Ben E. Keith, Trademark Properties, Catalyze Dallas, TechFW, DFW*ATW, and others.

Plus, Dallas Mayor Johnson names the city council liaison to the Mayor's Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Advisory Council and Fluor Corporation's Tricia Thibodeaux was named vice chair of The Construction Industry Institute.
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Fort Worth’s Panther Island Dream Gets More Real with $403M Federal Funding
by | Jan 21, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans Wednesday to spend $403 million on the final design and build of a 1.5-mile flood-control bypass channel, which will reroute part of the Trinity River near downtown Fort Worth—and create Panther Island. Fort Worth hopes the 800-acre island will become a massive housing and mixed-use entertainment and recreational district, connecting downtown Fort Worth to the city’s cultural district and the Stockyards.
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Dallas Unicorn o9 Solutions Caps Q4 with 400% Recurring Revenue Growth
by | Jan 20, 2022
o9’s Digital Brain AI platform addresses enterprise business planning and decision-making through enterprise modeling, big data analytics, and more. A $100M investment by KKR in 2020 gave the firm unicorn status. Now o9's co-founder and CEO tells Dallas Innovates his company will grow even more in 2022—both globally and in its delivered solutions.
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Hedera Will Open-Source Its Hashgraph Code to ‘Capitalize on Growing Demand for Public DLT’

by | Jan 20, 2022
The Hedera Governing Council will buy the IP from Swirlds, a startup co-founded in 2015 by the inventor of the Hashgraph algorithm. Dallas mathematician and computer scientist Leemon Baird created the distributed ledger technology to outperform other protocols in power, security, and speed.  This could be a breakout moment.  
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Dallas-Based DataBank Acquires Four Houston-Area Data Centers From CyrusOne for $670M
by | Jan 20, 2022
With the acquisitions, DataBank’s reach now includes 27 metro markets—the largest geographic footprint of any data center operator in the U.S.
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‘Don’t Choose Extinction’ and Other Ways Innovators Can Make a Climate Difference
by | Jan 19, 2022
Frankie the Dino says "Going extinct is a bad thing." Dallas Innovates recently caught up with EarthX's Rose Stark about the talking dinosaur's world premiere at the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Here are takeaways.
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Dropping the Poo: Poo~Pourri Rebrands as ~Pourri, Now Tackles Odors Everywhere
by | Jan 19, 2022
The company has sold over 100 million bottles of Poo~Pourri—its "before-you-go" odor-eliminating toilet spray—since its launch in 2007. Now it's expanding its line to tackle odors everywhere: for homes, cars, cats, dogs, shoes, even (phew!) men.
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TechFW Ushers in New Board Chair, New Secretary, and Two New Board Members

by | Jan 18, 2022
The TechFW board has named its 2022 leadership.
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Texas Women’s Foundation Names Seven Honorees for Its Leadership Forum and Awards Celebration
by | Jan 18, 2022
The 2022 Maura Women Helping Women and Young Leader awards celebrate leaders who have helped, in a variety of ways, lift up women and girls. At the April 26 event, the recipients will discuss their leadership journeys and the issues which drive their passions. Meet all seven women—and the keynote speaker too.
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The Innovation Imperative
by | Jan 18, 2022
Lessons from high-growth companies.
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DISD Superintendent Hinojosa Is Leaving Post in December
by | Jan 14, 2022
The move caps off Hinojosa's 42-year-career in education, including helming Dallas ISD for 13 years. A roster of leading civic supporters stepped up to praise the superintendent.
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DI People: JCPenney, 7-Eleven, Recode Therapeutics, Hawkeye, PCCI, and Others Make Moves

by | Jan 14, 2022
In this week's roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you'll also find news from CrossFirst Bankshares, Johnson & Sekin, DataBank, Balfour Beatty, Caspr Group, Mohr Partners, One Network, Kainos Capital, The Dallas Foundation, Denton County Transportation Authority and Indio Management.

Plus, the incoming AIA Dallas President charts a way forward for 2022 and Gov. Abbott appoints a North Texas to the Broadband Development Council.
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Waymo Via and J.B. Hunt Announce Long-Term Alliance, More Pilot Runs on I-45
by | Jan 14, 2022
The expanded collaboration will lead to multiple pilot tests of robotically driven freight on I-45 between Fort Worth and Houston "in the same lane" as those conducted in 2021. The two companies plan "to complete fully autonomous transport in Texas in the next few years."
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The Richards Group Is Changing Its Name to TRG, Reports Ad Age
by | Jan 14, 2022
The move comes just weeks after the agency's 18-story Uptown Dallas headquarters building was sold to a New York firm and local investors. As Ad Age notes, the name change will further distance the agency from its founder Stan Richards, who stepped down in 2020 after making racially offensive remarks during a call about an agency ad.
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Lay’s Uses ‘Sacred’ Cowboys Soil to Grow Spuds for Limited Edition Chips
by | Jan 13, 2022
As we get ready for Sunday's Cowboys-49ers playoff game, our photo gallery shows you the journey the hallowed Dallas Cowboys soil took to a potato farm in Dalhart, Texas—where NFL chip history was soon made.
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