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Kendra Phillips, Former CTO of Ryder, joins Aurora to deliver and commercialize Aurora Horizon, Aurora’s autonomous trucking product. [Photo: Aurora]
Aurora Hires Former Ryder CTO, Opens New Terminals in Fort Worth and El Paso to Support Autonomous Pilot Partnership with Werner
by David Seeley | Apr 6, 2022
Former Ryder CTO Kendra Phillips will lead Aurora's trucking and logistics partner programs. The newest one—a Fort Worth-El Paso hauling route for Werner Enterprises—is a key link in the commercial thoroughfare from L.A. to Atlanta. But it's a flat, monotonous run that many truck drivers find unappealing—making it a key test case for the Aurora Driver.
by Quincy Preston |
Apr 5, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Advanced Custom Engineered Systems Equipment Co. apparatus for monitoring waste removal, Amera loT's apparatus for imprinting private key on IoT, Bank of America's network security system for rogue devices, Baylor Research Institute's nucleic acids encoding anti-CD40 antibodies, D4D Technologies' intra-oral scanning device with active delete of unwanted scanned items, Halliburton's autonomous tractor using counter flow-driven propulsion, IBM's electronic messaging display optimization, Lenovo's presentation of AR content based on identification of trigger accompanying video content, Toyota's creating a valuable video clip using metadata flagging, and Wells Fargo Bank's ATM bill pay.
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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.”
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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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Rendering of the future Topgolf Glasgow venue. [Image: Topgolf]
Comparably’s Best DFW Workplaces Tees Off with Topgolf, Alkami, and More
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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by David Seeley |
Apr 4, 2022
Wing—the drone delivery unit of Google parent company Alphabet—is partnering with Blue Bell Creameries, easyvet, and Texas Health Resources on the launch. Wing calls the service "the first in a major U.S. metro area," and aims to offer "6 miles, 6 minutes, free delivery."
Wing's test deliveries from Walgreens stores in Frisco and Little Elm graduate to their official launch Thursday as well.
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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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Alan Shor, President, The Retail Connection
The Retail Connection President: DFW’s Population Boom Boosts Retail Real Estate
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. The benefits of an educated, affluent group of residents relocating to our city will continue to accrue with “increased job opportunities, lower cost of living, and better home values—and overall quality of life for our families,” the retail expert says. ...
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 31, 2022
TIAA is moving to The Star in Frisco, PeopleFun names a female CEO, DIFF readies for its first-ever spring preview of films, and more.
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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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Finnish Ambassador to the U.S. Mikko Hautala. [Photo: Business Finland]
A Finnish Business Delegation is Touring Texas to Launch Direct DFW-Helsinki Flights—and Deepen Business Ties
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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by David Seeley |
Mar 30, 2022
The subsidiary of Dallas-based FB Society developed Legacy Hall at Legacy West in Plano and Assembly Food Hall in Nashville, where small businesses get a chance to grow into thriving restaurant brands.
Its sister company FB Labs is the restaurant innovation lab behind concepts like Whiskey Cake, Mexican Sugar, Sixty Vines, Haywire, and more.
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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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