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Top Georgia Staffing Firm Opens Lewisville Branch to Find Manufacturing and Logistics for Locals

by | Jul 21, 2021
Hire Dynamics is looking to find jobs for local talent in manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, contact center, and office support via a recently established Lewisville office—its second in Texas.
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Dallas-Based Preston Hollow Community Capital Launches $200M IPO
by | Jul 21, 2021
With over $1.4 billion in permanent equity capital and $3+ billion in investment capacity, Preston Hollow calls itself the "S" in ESG finance—aiming for social impact through investments that create transformational community outcomes.
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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of July 6
by | Jul 20, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple’s coprocessor memory ordering table, Bank of America’s asset management block chain, Baylor Research Institute’s classification of polyps using learned image analysis, Bell Helicopter Textron’s parasite aircraft for airborne deployment and retrieval, Myth Innovations’ AR interface and method of use, and Toyota’s mass transit for personal vehicles.
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Westlake-based Solera To Acquire Aussie Insurtech Company

Westlake-based Solera Holdings has a deal to acquire Australian insurance tech provider ENData, the company announced on Monday. Through an intelligent platform, ENData can simplify and automate the fulfillment of insurance claims.

That’s on the heels of Solera’s May announcement of its acquisition of two Dallas-area companies, DealerSocket and Omnitracs. That deal combined three Vista Equity Partners companies into a one-stop shop....

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Chicago Residential Brokerage Firm @properties Expands Into Dallas With Backing From Jerry Jones’ Family

by | Jul 20, 2021
Dallas is set to be the third—and largest—metro market for the @properties franchise division. It will be helmed by the nephew of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Jerry Mooty, Jr., who has more than two decades of real estate experience through his work as a lawyer, entrepreneur, residential and commercial developer, investor, and broker.
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Jacobs Named Program Partner for $3.47B DISD 2020 Bond Program
by | Jul 20, 2021

Dallas-based engineering giant Jacobs has been selected as one of the program management firms for the $3.47 billion Dallas Independent School District (DISD) 2020 Bond Program....

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Grapevine’s 82-Year-Old Wally Funk Joins Jeff Bezos In Space, Makes History As Oldest Astronaut
by | Jul 20, 2021
The oldest human ever to reach space came back to earth today and said, "I want to go again, fast!" Wally Funk—the youngest graduate of the 1961 "Mercury 13" Woman in Space program—has finally lived her dream.
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Smart City: Irving Wins ‘What Works Cities’ Silver Certification
by | Jul 19, 2021

The City of Irving has won silver certification from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities—the national standard of well-managed cities recognizing the most effective use of data to inform policy and funding decisions....

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Check This Out: Walmart Tests All-Self-Checkout Supercenter in Plano

by | Jul 16, 2021
The store's cashier lanes are gone. In their place: 34 registers in a wide-open area, with a "host" to guide you through. The goal of the new service is to eliminate lines that stack up behind conventional checkout lanes.
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Three Dallas-Area Companies Make the IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld ‘Best Places to Work in IT’ List
by | Jul 15, 2021
The 28th annual ranking revealed 100 U.S. employers that offer top benefits, foster teamwork, and invest in their tech teams. Meet the three local companies named to the list, all in the small organization category.
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Frito-Lay CMO Tells Brands to “Innovate or Die” With 10 Tips for Making Innovation Your Secret Weapon
by | Jul 15, 2021
Frito-Lay CMO Rachel Ferdinando and GS&P's Margaret Johnson presented their session at the Cannes Lions festival weeks ago, but their advice is timeless. Whatever your company does—especially if it's consumer-facing—these 10 tips could give you an edge. No orange Cheetos fingers required.
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The DEC’s Dallas Startup Week to Feature the Third Annual Women of Innovation Summit
by | Jul 15, 2021
The Women of Innovation Summit will take place on Aug. 4 at Southern Methodist University’s McFarlin Auditorium during Dallas Startup Week, powered by Capital One. Women are encouraged to bring their whole work teams and even friends to make the most of a day of growth and development.
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Electrifying Move: Schumacher Electric Corporation Relocates its HQ to Fort Worth to Expand its Vision

by | Jul 13, 2021
The global leader in automotive power conversion products—battery chargers, jump starters, and portable devices—is moving from Chicago to near DFW Airport. The team hopes its Foreign Trade Zone status will uniquely position it to meet the auto aftermarket industry’s rapidly evolving needs. Schumacher recently launched initiatives in the EV market with more introductions coming in 2021, reports Private Equity Wire.
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Dallas-Fort Worth Continues To Grow As a Tech Talent Leader, Says CBRE’s ‘Scoring Tech Talent’ Report
by | Jul 13, 2021
DFW has the sixth-largest tech talent labor pool in the U.S., the annual report says, accelerating corporate relocations to the area. Overall, Dallas-Fort Worth ranked 13th out of 50 top U.S. and Canadian tech markets. But its growing tech labor pool and sought-after attributes have the area poised for even greater success.
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Tech Titans’ Edge Grand Challenge To Give Entrepreneurs a Connection to Enterprise Innovators
by | Jul 13, 2021
Entrepreneurs nationwide can submit an application now to demonstrate how innovative edge-enabled products help the world return to work and life. Due by Aug. 16, the edge-enabled solutions can benefit work, life, education or health.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of June 29
by | Jul 12, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America’s call interception heuristics, Belaj Innovations’ magnolia extract containing compositions, Illumina’s bioinformatics systems and methods for generating a De Brujin graph, IBM’s data aggregation node for blockchain rollup, Moneygram’s emergency services/virtual travel wallet, Motorola Mobility’s gas sensor augmented human presence detection system, Sealed Air Corp.’s crimped cushioned envelopes, ShockWatch’s unmanned aerial vehicle impact monitoring system, State Farm’s identifying property usage type based upon smart sensor data, Verizon’s providing LTE nåetwork devices with downlink channels in an unlicensed spectrum, and Walmart Apollo’s shopping facility assistance systems, devices and methods.
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