Now Dr. Chandra Pemmasani and his team are applying their knack for teaching tough subjects to distance learning in public schools.
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UWorld founder and CEO Dr. Chandra S. Pemmasani
High-Stakes Exam Prep Company Expands With the Goal of ‘Making Really Hard Stuff Easy to Understand’
by Sandra Engelland | Mar 17, 2021
UWorld set “the gold standard” in the healthcare education industry. The company has grown its empire beyond healthcare to accounting, law, finance, pharmacy, and college prep.
Now Dr. Chandra Pemmasani and his team are applying their knack for teaching tough subjects to distance learning in public schools.
Now Dr. Chandra Pemmasani and his team are applying their knack for teaching tough subjects to distance learning in public schools.
by Alex Edwards |
Mar 17, 2021
Kandi saw a gap in the growing Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) market when it came to technology and safety features. Its new NEV K23 and NEV K27—priced at $22,499 and $15,499 respectively—come equipped with a backup camera, Bluetooth capability, and high-tech touchscreen for those short trips around town. The Chinese electric car maker recently announced the relocation of its U.S. headquarters to Dallas from Garland.
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by Michaela Markels |
Mar 17, 2021
A recent survey revealed that almost 30 percent of women in the Dallas area are concerned that the pandemic will impact their longterm career goals.
In response to this and other findings, Verizon is launching a series of initiatives including Verizon Women’s CoLab, which is set to provide women with a digital space for professional development resources and networks.
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 16, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Accenture's development project blueprint and package generation, Amazon's automated gates to secure mobile carrier unit payloads, Capital One's machine-learning AI system for identifying vehicles, Corrino Holding's collaborative storytelling in a virtual space, Elbo's system for remote game access, Fevertags' livestock health monitoring system, Ford Global's delivery locker and assemblies, Hari Mari's footwear with enhanced toe post, National Presort's high-speed print-and-apply label applicator, and TI's authentication of networked devices with low computational capacity.
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Shane Long [Photo: 7T]
7T: Here’s Why Big-Name Companies Use This Dallas Firm to Lead Their Digital Transformation
by Alex Edwards | Mar 16, 2021
7T, recently rebranded from SevenTablets, is a local software development firm that improves advanced technology for Fortune 500 companies and startups. But the team operates on a "business first, technology follows" mindset—because its employees, like President and COO Shane Long, have a passion for helping entrepreneurs grow and succeed. "It's not just let's pretty up the website," Long says. "Let's change your company."
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 16, 2021
DFW companies made up 40 percent of the 250 ranked in the 2021 Texas edition of Inc.'s 5000 series list.
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 16, 2021
Subscribe + Drive gives drivers a membership-based alternative to ownership or leasing. Insurance, maintenance, and home delivery are part of the package.
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by Alex Edwards |
Mar 15, 2021
The deal, valued at $575.4 million, will combine the ecommerce disruptor's platform for new and pre-owned motorcycles with powersports retail giant RideNow. What will result is a first-of-its-kind omnichannel platform for powersports—a more than $100 billion industry—in North America.
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Match Group is Using Tinder to Make Background Check Technology More Accessible to Users
by Bella Pinera | Mar 15, 2021
Match Group has invested in Garbo, a first-of-its-kind background check platform, to empower people to make more informed decisions and choices about their safety. Garbo's platform will be integrated with Tinder later this year in an effort to aid adversely impacted women and marginalized communities.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 15, 2021
PCCI President and CEO Steve Miff says his team used machine learning and geomapping to visualize the progression of COVID-19 and to develop a Vulnerability Index to better target resources.
In recent weeks, PCCI published a report saying their data shows the region should reach herd immunity sometime in June.
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by Bella Pinera |
Mar 12, 2021
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Vizient, Foundry Commercial, Catalyze Dallas, Kimberly-Clark, Cyber Defense Labs, High-Tech High Heels, and Keurig Dr Pepper, among others.
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by Alex Edwards |
Mar 11, 2021
Honeycomb's technology offers operational ease for both buildings and tenants. The commercial version of its software is designed with a post-pandemic world in mind, sticking to a dominating force that's driving the real estate market: flexibility.
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Get Shift Done was named as No. 1 under the not-for-profit category in Fast Company’s 2021 World’s Top Most Innovative Companies list. [Photo: Klekamp Group]
Two North Texas Companies Make Fast Company’s Top 50 World’s Most Innovative
by Alex Edwards | Mar 10, 2021
Get Shift Done (No. 28) and Avocados From Mexico (No. 33) both earned high ranks on this year's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies, and topped their respective categories of not-for-profit and branding.
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by Bella Pinera |
Mar 10, 2021
Capital One Ventures has made one of its largest-ever cybersecurity investments in order to accelerate innovation in cloud-native security analytics by partnering with Securonix.
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 10, 2021
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. ABB Power Electronics' pluggable power distribution units for modular edge power systems, AT&T's dynamic data threading system, UT System's waveform design for RF power transfer, Futurewei Technologies' portrait image evaluation based on aesthetics, Interactive Mobile Marketing's mobile showroom, IBM's empathetic image selection, Plush Cujo's moveable and storable wardrobe, Texas Instrument's zero latency prefetching in caches, USAA's computer-implemented roof inspection systems , Zimperium's static analysis to detect malware in mobile apps, and Zynga's social network data analysis to generate incentives for online gaming.
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by Alexa Vickaryous |
Mar 9, 2021
Founder and CEO of Capital Factory Joshua Baer declared that “Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States." Here’s why.
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