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Tom Carter, Nexstar President and COO [Photo: Nexstar]
Irving-Based Nexstar Media Acquires Digital Political News Platform The Hill for $130M
by David Seeley | Aug 23, 2021
Irving-based Nexstar Media has acquired The Hill, one of America's leading political digital media platforms, for $130 million. The Hill attracted 48 million average monthly users and 2.2 billion total pageviews in 2020, according to Comscore. It also had 914 million video views on Twitter.
by Dave Moore |
Aug 21, 2021
Siemens Digital Industries Software headquarters is hiring like gangbusters. Siemens CFO Timo Nentwich, who moved to Dallas from Berlin last October, says the company has moved far beyond enabling the designs of airplanes and cars, into analyzing entire manufacturing processes.
“Few people know that we’re running a large operation like this out of the Plano office,” the CFO said.
“Few people know that we’re running a large operation like this out of the Plano office,” the CFO said.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 20, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from RumbleOn, Valify, Kibo, Duane Morris, Credera, Safe Conversations, Employer Direct Healthcare, Elevate Credit, Unitek, Ryan, and ReCode Therapeutics.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 19, 2021
AT&T and GM want to set the benchmark for automotive connectivity by bringing 5G connectivity to select model year 2024 vehicles.
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AECOM CEO Troy Rudd [Image: AECOM]
Infrastructure Giant AECOM Is Moving Its HQ From L.A. to Dallas
by David Seeley | Aug 18, 2021
With $13.2 billion in 2020 revenue and 47,000 employees worldwide, AECOM is a global leader in infrastructure innovation.
Now its CEO and select corporate leaders are leaving L.A. and joining AECOM's 1,200 existing Dallas employees to plant their HQ flag here—attracted by North Texas' benefits as
"a corporate hub and talent magnet for the engineering and consulting industry."
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 18, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AirWatch's remotely restricting client devices, Allied Bioscience's antimicrobial coatings for medical implements and devices, Anametric's system for quantum coherence preservation of qubits, Capital One's behavioral data analytics platform, Golabs' hoverboard, Lintec of America's hook and loop artificial muscles, Smurfit Kappa North America's cold chain packaging, Solar Hardscapes' landscape pavers for ground installation of photovoltaic panels, and Ventamatic's climate smart fan ventilation,
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 17, 2021
On the list of the 5,000 fastest-growing, privately held, for-profit companies in the U.S., the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro had more ranking companies than any other Texas metro at 179. Wichita Falls and Sherman companies also made a showing.
Here are region's high-growth companies on the Inc. 5000 list.
Here are region's high-growth companies on the Inc. 5000 list.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 17, 2021
The eighth annual IC3 Summit will be a forum for leaders from startups to large multinationals in the biotech, pharma, healthcare, and academic communities. A key summit speaker will be Admiral Brett Giroir, M.D., the former White House COVID-19 "testing czar."
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Westlake’s Virbac Announces Availability of New Dog Cancer Treatment Across the U.S.
by David Seeley | Aug 16, 2021
Stelfonta received FDA approval last November to treat dogs with non-metastatic, skin-based mast cell tumors (MCTs)—the most common malignant skin tumor in dogs. The injection is now available at vet clinics across the U.S., with an 88% "satisfactory experience" rate to date.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 13, 2021
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from Elara Caring, Ecobat, Dallas Regional Chamber, HALL Group, VERTESS, Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation, GlobalStep, and more.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 13, 2021
Get your slice ready. Dallas companies Flite Golf and Century Golf have teamed up to bring gamification tech to golf ranges and golf entertainment venues—with help from Senior Advisor Ken May, former CEO of Topgolf, Drive Shack, and FedEx Office.
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by Bella Pinera |
Aug 12, 2021
Looking to buy a home? Hold your horses. The SVP of Dallas-based One Technologies, which operates credit monitoring platform ScoreSense, shares his credit score insights for surviving in today's market.
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[Photo: Oatly]
Oatly Chooses Fort Worth For Its Newest and Largest North American Oat Milk Facility
by David Seeley | Aug 12, 2021
Oatly's new 280,000-square-foot state-of-the-art manufacturing center is expected to create more than 100 jobs once completed in 2023—and will produce 150 million liters of oat milk annually.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 11, 2021
The move will create more than 200 new jobs and more than $6.8 million in capital investment.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 11, 2021
On Wednesday, Amazon announced findings from its 2021 U.S. Economic Impact Report, sharing a by-the-numbers look at its U.S. investments.
With its recently opened fulfillment center in Forney, Amazon now has more than 30 operations facilities across Dallas-Fort Worth—making North Texas its biggest market in the state. The company now has 37,000 direct employees in DFW alone.
With its recently opened fulfillment center in Forney, Amazon now has more than 30 operations facilities across Dallas-Fort Worth—making North Texas its biggest market in the state. The company now has 37,000 direct employees in DFW alone.
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