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DFW Cities Dominate List of ‘Surprising’ Cities Where You Can Make a Lot of Money

by | Sep 30, 2019
GOBankingRates' study looked at 188 U.S. cities with at least 50,000 households. North Texas cities ranked at the head of the class.
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WIT Empowerment Day Lets Women Pitch Their Toy, Game, and Play Products
by | Sep 30, 2019
At this annual event—coming to Dallas Market Center tomorrow—female entrepreneurs and inventors can get feedback, advice, and mentoring from Walmart buyers and other industry leaders.
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Mary Kay’s New Accelerator to Empower Female Entrepreneurs Around the World
by | Sep 27, 2019
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator will offer a guided digital curriculum—in six languages, and eventually for 192 countries—that resembles on-the-ground training and mentorship. In the future, funding opportunities will be available to women who complete the curriculum.
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Live-Video Security Provider Stealth Monitoring Gets ‘Significant’ Equity Investment
by | Sep 27, 2019
Headquartered in Addison and Toronto, Stealth Monitoring also offers analytics and detection offering aimed at deterring crime.
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Mitsubishi Elevator & Escalator Division Expands North Texas Office

by | Sep 26, 2019
The Dallas-Fort Worth branch of Mitsubishi Electric's Elevator & Escalator Division started in 2017 as a two-person operation, but steady growth is leading the company to expand the office.
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Follow the Money: Latticework Capital Raises $120M, Renibus Therapeutics Gets $3.37M, HMS Buys VitreosHealth
by | Sep 26, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas, you’ll also find news about Fetch, Figable, Stealth Monitoring, Solo Stove, BP Energy Partners, Integrity Marketing, a360inc, and more.
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TXU Energy Honors Five Area Organizations with Energy Leadership Awards
by | Sep 25, 2019
TXU's awards recognize corporate and nonprofit leaders in categories including energy management, innovation, community, sustainability, and engagement.
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Liberty Mutual and City of Plano Contribute $1M Each for New Accessible Playground
by | Sep 25, 2019
Liberty Playground, a two-acre space within Plano's new Windhaven Meadows Park, intends to be an inclusive place for children of all abilities.
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 17

by | Sep 25, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcatel Lucent's driver behavior monitoring systems, Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems' bio-dimming lighting, CTL Medical Corporation's biomedical implants, Focal Therapeutics's implantable tissue marker device, GF-17's method for creating and sharing bots, Sprinkl.IO's remote wireless moisture sensors for irrigation, Texas Instrument's error-correcting analog-to-digital converters, and Victor Equipment Company's automated gas cutting system.
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Poo~Pourri and Hotels.com Put New Couples at Ease in a Cheeky Co-Branded Campaign
by | Sep 24, 2019
The infamous Poo~Pourri girl and Hotels.com’s Captain Obvious team up for #FirstPooWithBoo to address an important issue for new couples: bathroom use on their first overnight trip together.
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DI People: Cyber Group, Apex Clearing, and Brinker International Make Leadership Announcements
by | Sep 24, 2019
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves by companies and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from European Wax Center, MedCore Partners, Kimberly-Clark, Medecision, and SMU.
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Eosera Doubles its Fort Worth Manufacturing and Warehouse Space to Fill a Growing Demand
by | Sep 24, 2019
The majority woman-owned biotech company is moving into a 10,000-square-foot space that supports its in-house manufacturing needs. Eosera has also added two more ear care products to its line, which are sold in more than 13,000 stores across the U.S.
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Burns & McDonnell Meets Growth Needs With Fort Worth Office Expansion

by | Sep 24, 2019
The 100-percent employee-owned engineering, architecture, and construction firm said it has grown by 20 percent in North Texas this year.
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Matt Alexander speaking at the RevTech annual event in 2019: Tech Trends in Retail. The event was held in Plano, Texas at Neighborhood Goods.
RevTech’s 12th Semi-Annual Event Talks Emerging Retail and the Tech Behind It
by | Sep 23, 2019
“I think we in the retail industry are guilty often of not necessarily asking the question of 'Why would I deploy this technology?'" Neighborhood Goods' Matt Alexander said during the event's fireside chat.
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AT&T Backs ScholarShot’s Education Initiative with $100K Contribution
by | Sep 23, 2019
ScholarShot works to help at-risk students complete vocational, associate, and graduate degrees and move out of poverty.
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Report: Perryman on (Traffic) Congestion
by | Sep 23, 2019
The costs are enormous—to the tune of $166B—according to M. Ray Perryman and a new Urban Mobility Report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Sitting in traffic costs Americans wasted hours (8.8 billion) and fuel (3.3 billion). Here's where we rank in Texas, and what we might do about it. The costs are enormous—to the tune of $166B—according to M. Ray Perryman and a new Urban Mobility Report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Sitting in traffic costs Americans wasted hours (8.8 billion) and fuel (3.3 billion).

Here's where we rank in Texas, and what we might do about it.
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