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Anurag Jain and Patrick Brandt Share How They Started Nonprofit Get Shift Done Amidst a Pandemic
by Riley Farrell | Sep 2, 2020
What started as an idea with backing from community organizers and restaurant owners, Get Shift Done has rallied support to give meals and livelihoods to at-risk groups in 11 cities.
by Sandra Engelland |
Sep 2, 2020
What are you doing with your extra four and a half hours? A recent study shows that remote workers have gained back 10 percent of their work week by not commuting.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Sep 2, 2020
With a recent round of Series B funding and a new CTO, the fast-growing firm is ready for the global expansion of its edge-computing platform.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 2, 2020
Rising to the top of the list: How the private charitable foundation of Dallas Mavericks Owner and “Shark” Mark Cuban partnered up with tech companies to bring an "AI Bootcamp" to underserved DFW students. Here's our roundup of the Top 10.
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 18
by Quincy Preston | Sep 2, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's approach for traffic overhead and UE mobility tradeoff, Audatex North America's mobile system for generating a damaged vehicle insurance estimate, Capital One's database image matching using machine learning with output estimation, Flowserve's near field RF powered electronic valve actuator, Ingar's management of aerial drone parcel transfers, IBM's location-aware trust-based P2P currency exchange, Lennox's intelligent defrost control method, and Oceus's mobile cellular networks.
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by Chantal Canales |
Sep 1, 2020
The virtual panel of leaders from Ericsson and Kodiak discussed Dallas' growth and how startups can seek funding and partnerships from large corporations.
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by Riley Farrell |
Sep 1, 2020
O'Banion shared industry lessons she has learned in a decade of entrepreneurship during Dallas Startup Week's Women of Innovation Summit.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Sep 1, 2020
The new nationwide movement and advocacy program called Small Unites aims to help small business owners and entrepreneurs “thrive in the new normal” with a $50M collective investment from a diverse group of companies.
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Kris Fitzgerald, chief technology officer for NTT DATA Services [Photo: NTT Data Services]
NTT Data Pushes Dallas-Fort Worth Startups to Enter Open Innovation Contest
by Dave Moore | Sep 1, 2020
CTO Kris Fitzgerald thinks of Dallas as having "pragmatic innovation." NTT DATA wants to tap into that.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Sep 1, 2020
CEO Frank McGuigan wants to advance the Transplace platform, which has more than $11B in freight under management in North America, through innovation and acquisition. The Frisco-based logistics technology and service has acquired supply chain firm LeanCor.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Aug 31, 2020
Toni Portmaan's SaaS virtual real estate and digital office platform was built for the age of WFH—well ahead of the pandemic. It's in its second round of seed funding.
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by Riley Farrell |
Aug 31, 2020
In an age nicknamed the “retail apocalypse” by analysts, marketing experts spoke on digital pioneering amid economic crisis at DSW20.
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DI People: Freese and Nichols, The Michaels Companies, HilltopSecurities Make Moves
by Alex Edwards | Aug 28, 2020
In this week's roundup of hires and promotions in North Texas, you'll also find news from NCTCOG, Transwestern, Children’s Health and UT Southwestern, SMU, Huitt-Zollars, UNT, and more.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Aug 27, 2020
The company wants to “reinvent tradition” by teaming up with powerhouse brand Balfour, the more than 100-year-old premier class jewelry provider, while also pivoting its GEMs program.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 27, 2020
Dublin-based Linesight is bullish on Dallas-Fort Worth, which ranks as the second-busiest construction market and second highest data center leasing market in the U.S.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Aug 27, 2020
$25,000 to disinfect an office building? Toxic chemicals sprayed in a daycare? Thomas Holland, founder of APEX Property Services, has heard all the complaints about janitorial services. Now he intends to shake up the status quo. His company—a certified B Corp—is one of a limited number of preferred partners that can apply Allied BioScience's SurfaceWise2, the first antiviral surface coating approved by the EPA last week.
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