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Nextaff Opens First Dallas Area Talent Recruiting Office

by | Jul 12, 2018
The firm offers a variety of custom solutions to industrial, administrative, professional, information technology, and health-care industries.
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Krew
Follow the Money: Krew Rideshare Collects $25K, Maxxsure Raises $350K, Consulting Firm Kanarys Gets $115K
by | Jul 12, 2018
From AT&T and Common Desk to Sidekick Tools and Four Corners Brewing, here's a look at recent funding and acquisitions involving companies and firms with North Texas ties.
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An illustration (fig. 6A) from Toyota’s patent No. 10011222 demonstrating a system including a steering wheel-shaped shell with two layers that illuminates LED lights when force is applied.
Dallas Invents: 68 Patents Granted for Week of July 3
Patents granted include Toyota’s steering wheel that illuminates via touch; AT&T’s electrical switch that generates signals through acoustic inputs; Frito-Lay’s method for removing part of a food product through an “abrasive stream”; and Conduent Business Services’ method to create a classifier that predicts a user’s personality type.
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Gurmeet Singh
Q+A: CIO Gurmeet Singh on How 7-Eleven is Redefining Convenience for the Digital Age
by | Jul 11, 2018
As technology becomes omnipresent in peoples' lives, the convenience retailer is going through its own digital transformation and turning to emerging tech such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, augmented reality, and more to improve the customer experience. 
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Mulberrys

Mulberrys Brings Refreshed Take on Dry Cleaning to Dallas Area

by | Jul 10, 2018
The on-demand, toxin-free laundry and dry cleaning company irons out wrinkles for customer experience in a dated industry.
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Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Takes Step to Enhance Aircraft Cybersecurity with New Contract
by | Jul 10, 2018
The contract will enable the partners to work on reducing the cyber threat to the Lockheed Martin aircraft supply chain.
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Accenture
Accenture Seeking Changemakers for Global Health Care Challenge
by | Jul 9, 2018
In its third annual competition, the global professional services company aims to unite startups, life science companies, and health care organizations to take on some of the world’s most pressing health issues.
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Braintone Art
Dallas-based Tech Enables People to Create Art Via Brainwaves
by | Jul 9, 2018
Braintone Art, which was founded in Dallas, allows anyone, with any ability, to create a piece of unique art using their minds.
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An illustration from the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System’s patent No. 10007336 demonstrating a mobile, low-cost three-dimensional gaze estimation. The headset may include an “eye-tracking camera and scene camera to create multi-dimensional pictures in the direction of the user’s view.

Dallas Invents: 96 Patents Granted for Week of June 26

Patents granted include the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System’s low-cost, mobile 3D point of estimation headset; Mary Kay’s method for topical skin care treatment using plant extracts; Roka Sports’ garment for aquatic sports to help improve performance; and Capital One’s system of using a bounding shape to place augmented reality objects.
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Business as Mutual: Leaders Talk Collaborations in Social Innovation, Blockchain & AI
In the final installment of this wide-ranging discussion on how to foster collaboration, leaders look at projects in the social sector, give more tips on connecting, and offer some forward-thinking thoughts on the future.
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DI People: New Hires for Academic Partnerships, JLL, Caris Life Sciences, Axxess
by | Jul 3, 2018
In this roundup of DFW personnel activity highlights, you'll also find details about Rob Rouse taking over as interim director of SMU Maker Education.
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Kernel
United Way of Tarrant County is Accepting Applications for Social Innovation Contest KERNEL
by | Jul 2, 2018
The Fort Worth-area competition will award finalists with seed funding and resources to solve social problems in the community.
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The CEO insider video podcast hosted by Trey Bowles

CEO Insider Video Podcast
Hosted by Trey Bowles

The Dallas Entrepreneur Center's new video podcast series highlights emerging CEOs in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Innovation Study: DFW Should Embrace its Sprawl & Work Together to Propel its Growth, Identity as ‘Hub for Innovation’
by | Jun 29, 2018
After a monthslong research study, the Dallas Regional Chamber, Southern Methodist University, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, and Accenture have released a “guidebook” to help North Texas’ innovation economy thrive into the future.
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Business as Mutual: Leaders Give Insight on How Collaboration + Innovation Happens in DFW
This wide-ranging discussion covered how to foster collaboration, the role of technology, and many examples of DFW coming together to improve business, create social change, and simply make a positive impact on the region.
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Follow the Money: Texas Standard Raises $500K, DCS Global Gets Growth Investment
by | Jun 28, 2018
From Viziv Technologies raising another $576,000 for energy technology and Stryve Foods raising $10 million, here's a look at recent funding and acquisitions involving companies and firms with North Texas ties.
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