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Patented: Toyota’s Vehicle Heart Rate Detection Device and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 10 with a total of 180 patents granted.
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Dallas’ Big Sky Asset Management Surpasses $100M in Healthcare Real Estate Acquisitions in 90 Days
by | Mar 10, 2026
The transactions—each with separate sellers—include a surgical hospital in Corpus Christi, an ambulatory surgery center and medical outpatient building in Plano, an ambulatory surgery center in San Antonio, a multi-tenant medical outpatient building in Frisco, and an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Denton.
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Farmers Branch-Based Risk Theory Acquires New York’s Roundhill Express
by | Mar 10, 2026
Founded to address the distinctive challenges of insuring habitational properties in New York City, Roundhill Express distributes solely through a proprietary online portal, offering package policies covering property and general liability for one- to ten-unit dwellings.
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Plano-Based Argano Acquires Colorado’s Denovo Ventures
by | Mar 10, 2026
Partnering with organizations running Oracle's and JD Edwards platforms, Denovo specializes in migrating and supporting ERP platforms on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and offers long-term managed services that include infrastructure operations, hosting, and system administration.
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Dallas Digital Engineering Services Firm AppsTek Acquired by Frisco’s Sage IT

by | Mar 10, 2026
The acquisition includes all of AppsTek's operations across the U.S., Canada, and the United Arab Emirates, "further strengthening the combined organization's global delivery ecosystem and execution scale," the companies said.
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Amazon’s Zoox Is Expanding Its Robotaxi Program to Dallas—Starting With a Testing Fleet
by | Mar 10, 2026
The Dallas expansion will begin with manual mapping by Zoox’s SUV testing fleet. Later, the Amazon-owned company plans to roll out its toaster-shaped, bidirectional robotaxis with facing bench seats and no true “front” or “back.”
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TI Debuts New Microcontrollers With ‘TinyEngine’ Neural Processing Units for Edge AI
by | Mar 10, 2026
"TI invented the digital signal processor almost 50 years ago, laying the groundwork for today's edge AI processing," said Texas Instruments' Amichai Ron. "Now TI is leading the next phase of innovation by integrating the TinyEngine NPU across our entire microcontroller portfolio."
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BioNTX Names Former Women in Bio Leader as Its New CEO
by | Mar 6, 2026
Gina Ford will concentrate on boosting industry alignment, increasing the region’s national visibility, and charting a clear course to speed innovation, attract investment and improve long-term competitiveness in the life sciences sector across North Texas, BioNTX said. She replaces Kathleen Otto Rosenblum, who's retiring from the position.
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CYPHER Learning Names Former Chatmeter Leader as CEO as Founder Transitions to CTO

by | Mar 5, 2026
New CEO John Mazur brings decades of experience leading high-growth SaaS and technology companies through expansion, operational transformation, and strategic transactions. With founder Graham Glass's transition to CTO, Glass will continue his vision to make learning intuitive, intelligent, and scalable as he focuses on advancing the company's AI roadmap and next-generation platform capabilities, CYPHER said.
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Dallas County Opens $52M Public Health Laboratory Near Dallas Medical District
by | Mar 5, 2026
Developed in a public-private partnership with Hunt Real Estate & Infrastructure, the lab gives Dallas County a modern public health infrastructure and positions the county to detect, contain, and respond to health threats "faster than ever before."
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Irving’s File & ServeXpress Gets Investment From Maryland’s Northlane Capital
by | Mar 5, 2026
Operating in more than 1,900 courts nationwide, File & ServeXpress is a leading provider of online document exchange, data and document management, and notifications, serving courts, government agencies, and legal professionals across the U.S.
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Dallas-Based TI Partners With NVIDIA to Accelerate the Deployment of Humanoid Robots
by | Mar 5, 2026
By fusing camera and radar data, a new solution from Texas Instruments and NVIDIA improves humanoid robots' object detection, localization, and tracking while reducing false positives for confident, real-time decision-making, TI said.
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Target Is Investing $5 Billion in Store Growth and Dallas’ Oak Cliff Is First in Line

by | Mar 5, 2026
The retailer's new Oak Cliff store opens March 15 as part of a national push to add more than 300 locations by 2035. Three more North Texas stores are in the pipeline.
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North Texas’ Topaz Labs Teams With NVIDIA to Cut the Cloud Out of Pro-Grade AI Image and Video Processing
by | Mar 5, 2026
Designed as foundational technology, the Emmy-winning company's new NeuroStream slashes computing demands by up to 95%, bringing large models to everyday desktops and Macs.
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American Beacon Partners Appoints New Chief Transformation Officer
by | Mar 4, 2026
Patti Barron joins American Beacon from Barrow Hanley Global Investors, where she spent the past 26 years in senior leadership roles, most recently as chief operating officer.
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Addison-Based Autire Gets Investment From San Francisco’s Serent Capital
by | Mar 4, 2026
Autire’s AI-powered software platform integrates workflow management, automated data processing, and structured documentation support for retirement plan audits. The software is engineered to help CPA firms improve consistency, reduce administrative burden, and develop a more standardized audit process, the company said.
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