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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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Fort Worth-Based PMG Expands its Uptown Office, Tripling the Dallas Team
by | Sep 25, 2019
After launching its Uptown Dallas location less than a year ago, the agency—which manages more than $1B in digital media spending—is ready to expand its footprint.
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Distracted teen driver.
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 Hotels.com
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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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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Systum Places First in Distribution Software Platform Ranking
by | Sep 24, 2019
The Plano company's cloud-based, all-in-one inventory management system ranked ahead of 20 other firms, including QuickBooks and Oracle. FinancesOnline recognized its ability to aid SMBs—an estimated $1 trillion market in the wholesale and distribution vertical—by combining business operations into a unified platform. This latest ranking comes after a productive summer for Systum, during which it announced it had raised $10.7 million during its funding round.
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Burns & McDonnell Fort Worth
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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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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Brewing Up Business: Phil Romano and George Esquivel on Crafting a Company
by | Sep 20, 2019
Restaurant mogul/innovator/entrepreneur Phil Romano and Four Corners Brewing Co-founder George Esquivel share (real) advice. It was a 40-minute master class.
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New Omnitracs Exec Takes the Wheel of its Data, AI, and Machine Learning Operations
by | Sep 19, 2019
Ashim Bose has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and says that digital transformation is rapidly reshaping the transportation industry.
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Ericsson Lewisville
Ericsson Picks Lewisville for $134M Smart Factory of the Future to Accelerate 5G
by | Sep 19, 2019
Products made at the new facility—which begins operations early next year—will boost network capacity and coverage to meet the demand for rapid 5G deployment across North America.
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Japanese Mobility Supplier DENSO Opens $1.3M R&D Center in Plano

by | Sep 18, 2019
DENSO's Texas Innovation and Connected Service Center—strategically located near longtime partner Toyota North America—will become part of the company’s larger global R&D network and help advance its work in mobility and autonomous vehicles.
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Take a Joyage: New App Addresses the Mental Well-Being of Employees
by | Sep 18, 2019
Through a partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, ACAP HealthWorks is offering nine video lessons designed for people struggling with mental health and for the people who are helping them.
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IoT private key concept
Dallas Invents: 132 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 10
by | Sep 18, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: American Security Product's physical article exchange using a safe, Armor Defense's detection of malicious instructions in a virtual machine memory, BLIVIC's needle for a bloodless intravenous catheter system, Capital One Services' visualization of vehicle condition using extended reality, Yeshvik Solutions' parking system, and Futurewei's device for providing a key for IoT communication.
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Open Access: Hedera Hashgraph’s Blockchain Alternative Network Now Available to the Public
by | Sep 17, 2019
Hedera knows that for its distributed ledger technology platform to become mainstream, it has to be easy to integrate. Local companies Zabo and Hashing Systems—along with 24 others—are on board to help with that.
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