MORE►
Business
[Photo: Courtesy BuzzBallz]
BuzzBallz Joins the Fight Against COVID-19 Through Hand Sanitizer Production
by Lauren Hawkins | Mar 25, 2020
The Carrollton-based company plans to donate 10,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to Texas healthcare facilities, municipalities, and retail personnel in the next week.
by Quincy Preston |
Mar 25, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Amazon Technologies' bulk data uploading, Capital One Services' automated system for vehicle tracking, IBM's methods and systems for multiple drone delivery system with in-flight handoff, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation's automated facial biological recognition, Shopify's network virtualization policy management system and Toyota's autonomous vehicle operation in view-obstructed environments.
MORE►
by Lance Murray |
Mar 24, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership activity by businesses and organizations in North Texas, you'll also find news from Stevens Transport and Plunk Smith.
MORE►
by Lance Murray |
Mar 23, 2020
A new report from JLL shows that while the number of bank branch locations is falling, technology isn't ending the need for in-person banking help.
MORE►
[Illustration: ismagilov/iStockphoto]
AT&T Launches $10M Fund to Provide Home Learning Resources During COVID-19
by Lance Murray | Mar 23, 2020
The effort starts with a $1 million donation to the Khan Foundation, which will give teachers, parents, and students online educational materials.
MORE►
by Quincy Preston |
Mar 23, 2020
A new United Way Metropolitan Dallas Coronavirus Response and Recover Fund—seeded at $1.2M—came together in less than a week. We talk with UWMD's Susan Hoff about what it took, how the fund works, and what's next.
MORE►
by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2020
Texas Instruments Foundation, Bank of America, McKesson Foundation, Perot Foundation, Wells Fargo and Hoblitzelle Foundation are among corporate partners making an initial seed fund commitment.
MORE►
by Alex Edwards |
Mar 19, 2020
EarthX2020, hosted in partnership with the National Geographic Society, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. This year's event will be an all-new virtual experience from April 23-25.
MORE►
The new fund aims to help nonprofits and hourly workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Get Shift Done: New North Texas Fund Puts Hospitality Workers Hit by COVID-19 Back to Work—at Nonprofits
by Lance Murray | Mar 18, 2020
The initiative is the brainchild of business leaders Anurag Jain and Patrick Brandt.
MORE►
by Quincy Preston |
Mar 18, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Linear Labs's method and apparatus for power generation, ATT Mobility's adaptive rate of congestion indicator to enhance intelligent traffic steering, Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, D4D Technologies'dental CAD/CAM application with real-time detail highlighting on 3D models, Geodynamics' preventing downhole airlock device and method, Good Sportsman Marketing's reconfigurable hunting blind, Rain Bird's volumetric budget-based irrigation control, Siemens Healthcare's deep learning-based bone removal in computed tomography angiography, and Swipejobs' job matching application, method, and system.
MORE►
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Mar 18, 2020
Coronavirus is changing the way people do business. But for companies like Dallas-based StackPath, they can make a difference for those that are struggling to start working remotely.
MORE►
by Alex Edwards |
Mar 17, 2020
Blue Box Air, which has a patented process for sanitizing commercial HVAC systems, expects to hire 30-50 employees to work out of its new headquarters in Deep Ellum over the next year.
MORE►
[Image: City of Arlington/YouTube]
Arlington Gets $1.7M to Integrate Autonomous Vehicles into Via Rideshare Program
by Lance Murray | Mar 17, 2020
Arlington was the first city in the nation to convert its entire mass transit operation into what's called micro-transit. Its new service will include a wheelchair-accessible vehicle and could let UT Arlington students ride for free.
MORE►
by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 13, 2020
Chollampel and her staff strive to improve the day-to-day experience of 73 million annual passengers at the world's fourth-busiest airport.
MORE►
by David Kirkpatrick |
Mar 13, 2020
Blue Box Air—which recently made the decision to relocate its headquarters to North Texas, and will officially move next week—has a patented process to combat COVID-19 in HVAC systems.
MORE►
by David Kirkpatrick |
Mar 12, 2020
CellAntenna already has a history with one of its new Plano neighbors: It recently became a member of the Ericsson Industry Connect Program to deliver support services for the Ericsson private cellular network.
MORE►
