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Dallas Invents: 83 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 19
by | Feb 2, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Advanced Neuromodulation's device to treat chronic pain with burst stimulation, Beard Stencil's hands-free grooming apparatus, BNSF's railroad virtual track block system, Futurewei's predictive routing for mobility, IBM's air quality monitoring, analysis and reporting system, ShaveLogic's magnetic attachment for shaving cartridge, Space Data's lighter-than-air (LTA) platforms, Textron's unmanned aerial vehicles with compact storage mode, and Toyota's methods for managing freshness of fuel in a vehicle.
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Frisco-Based Careington Launches National Teledentistry Program for Oral Health Consultations
by | Feb 2, 2021
Through its affiliate, DialCare, Careington's new teledentistry program offers around-the-clock access to licensed dentists nationwide for a phone or video consultation. It's a largely untapped market, the company told us, one that's only been accelerated by COVID-19.
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Cyber Group Hires Its First Chief Innovation Officer for New Innovation Lab
by | Feb 2, 2021
The Dallas-based software services provider has brought on business tech expert Rob Palacios to lead its new initiative. The new Innovation Lab will help Cyber Group clients take a short but deep dive into possibilities. 
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Dallas-Based Kofile Launches GovOS to Help Agencies Bring Paper-Based Processes Online

by | Feb 2, 2021
GovOS was launched to meet a growing demand for digital access to government services.
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Dallas Regional Chamber Announces Funding to Elevate Southern Dallas County
by | Feb 1, 2021
A cash infusion into 13 organizations—many of them nonprofits—aims to make Southern Dallas County a more verdant, better-informed, and healthier place to live.
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Nine North Texas Companies Make Fortune’s Newest List of the World’s Most Admired Companies
by | Feb 1, 2021
From North Texas, Southwest Airlines, AT&T, D.R. Horton, Jacobs Engineering Group, Kimberly-Clark, McKesson, and Texas Instruments ranked in the top 300 All-Star companies.
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Toyota Unveils Expanded Online Car Buying Experience to Keep Up With Shifting Retail Patterns
by | Feb 1, 2021
Toyota Motor North America's complete online retail experience, SmartPath, gives customers the ability to purchase a car without ever visiting a dealership.
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Dallas-Based Work Shield Adapts Its HR Tech to the New Workplace—Home

Jared Pope's HR tech startup offering technology to streamline workplace harassment and discrimination claims increased its client base by 250 percent. But it's more than a "check-the-box" compliance company. Next up, the startup plans to move its headquarters to a new Dallas location, double its staffing, and raise a Series B funding round. 
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DI People: Brinker International, Neiman Marcus Group, Texas Oncology, and More Make Moves
by | Jan 29, 2021
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Trinity Park Conservancy, RKD Group, Taysha Gene Therapies, Freese and Nichols, NuVinAir, and Skybox Datacenters, among others.
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Dallas-Based EV Startup is Electrifying the Future of Rideshare
by | Jan 28, 2021
What's next is scale, says eCarra's Rock Robinson. The electric vehicle startup offers luxury “rides that matter” in their fleet of Teslas. Landing its largest corporate client to date, the future looks bright. Now, Robinson wants to replicate its model in markets across the country to spur more EV usage—and help support other Black-owned businesses.
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Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation’s New Free App Shows Dallas County Residents Their Risk of COVID-19 Exposure
by | Jan 27, 2021
Dallas' Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation has launched MyPCI App, a cloud-based tool that provides an on-demand personal risk assessment based on your location.
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Technology Hub Dallas Fort Worth: The companies just keep coming

Tech Comes of Age in Dallas-Fort Worth

by | Jan 27, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth has a spirit of optimism and checks the right boxes for tech companies, experts say. The region has earned its stripes as a top-growing global location for business technology.
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Dallas Invents: 113 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 12
by | Jan 27, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Atense's storing and using multipurpose secret data, Authentix's product authentication using barcode characteristics, Capital One's task management platfor, Innovation First's performance arena for robots with position system, IBM's cognitive vetting system for unsolicited residential visitors, Kintrans' body movement recognition and association system, Mass Luminosity's streaming and nonstreaming media transfer between devices, Sensal Health's medication adherence apparatus, STMicroelectronics' atomic layer deposition of selected molecular clusters, and USAA's traffic drone system.
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Dallas-Based Preciate Gets $4.6M Seed Round to Scale Its Virtual Social and Peer Recognition Tech
by | Jan 26, 2021
The startup's flagship product— Preciate Social—grew more than 200 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020.

The virtual socializing platform for businesses and teams officially launched in September with nearly 10,000 users from 1,700 companies including AAA, SSI, Brock Solutions, and National Science Foundation/Emory.
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RollKall Launches ‘One-Stop Shop’ Feature on Platform Connecting Law Enforcement Officers to Off-Duty Jobs
by | Jan 26, 2021
The Irving-based company, which is the nation’s leading provider of off-duty and “extra-duty” law enforcement staffing, has also announced the hiring of B2B tech expert Tara Bryant as its new chief commercial officer.
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