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Revolution's tamper-evident carryout bag. [Photo: Revolution]
Revolution Unites All Its Sustainable Plastics Brands Under One Name
by Maddie Preston | Jan 25, 2022
Revolution has a unique circular approach to plastics recycling: It integrates all stages of the plastic life cycle at its plants in order to divert plastic from landfills. In addition to facilities across the U.S., Revolution has Texas plants in Mesquite and Kilgore—and executive offices in Flower Mound.
by Quincy Preston |
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.
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 Maddie Preston |
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.
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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by David Seeley |
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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Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio. [Photo: Audrey Bernstein]
Freakonomics Radio Asks ‘Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?’
by David Seeley | Jan 20, 2022
To find the answer, host Stephen Dubner flew to DFW to see why the region is so business-friendly, why the people are so friendly too, why cities to the north are growing like hotcakes, and why a Basquiat got on the wall of the Dallas Museum of Art. Oh, and he ate a Meat Potato at Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse. (Thumbs up.)
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by David Kirkpatrick |
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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by David Kirkpatrick |
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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by David Seeley |
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.
Here are takeaways.
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Dallas Invents: 71 Patents Granted for Week of Dec. 21
by Quincy Preston | Jan 19, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's multi-camera image tracking on a global plane, Amazon's active safety systems for item sortation equipment, Brain Games' electronic all-in game, Fashion For Globe's searching and obtaining clothing designs while discouraging copying, IBM's data analytics and insights brokerage service, McAfee's detection and mitigation of fileless security threats, State Farm's facilitating real estate transactions by analyzing user-provided data, TazKai's real-time progressive examination preparation platform , TI's low-power wakeup pattern detection of multiple data streams, and UniWell's pharmaceutical compositions.
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by Leslie Barker |
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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Global Talent Tech Company Harver Announces Scott Lander as CEO and Board Chair
by David Kirkpatrick | Jan 14, 2022
The hire follows the company's merger and rebranding in 2020. Dallas-based Outmatch joined forces with Amersterdam-based Harver in May and rebranded in November.
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by Maddie Preston |
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.
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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by David Seeley |
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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by David Seeley |
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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