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Left to right: Bryan A. Erman, William D. Lambert, Brian J. Willey, and Robert T. Macalik [Photos: Matador Resources]

Matador Resources Makes 4 Senior Promotions as Midstream Business Expands

by | Jul 1, 2025
The Dallas-based energy company says the leadership changes — with new roles for longtime team members — come as San Mateo’s gas processing system expands into one of the largest by capacity in New Mexico.
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AT&T and BlackRock’s Gigapower Taps Veteran Policy Leader to Help Expand Fiber Networks Across the U.S.
by | Jul 1, 2025
Toni Broberg will lead Gigapower’s strategic engagement with local, state, and external stakeholders and support its broadband infrastructure expansion and public policy initiatives.
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India-Based L&T Technology Services Launches New Engineering Design Center in North Texas
by | Jul 1, 2025
The global engineering and tech services company’s Plano facility is slated to create over 350 high-skilled jobs in AI, digital engineering, cybersecurity, and manufacturing solutions.
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Stemuli and Heartland Forward Launch ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ AI Training Platform in Central U.S.
by | Jul 1, 2025
Dallas edtech startup Stemuli and Heartland Forward, a “think-and-do tank” for the central U.S., are teaming up to bring AI-powered, gamified learning tools to rural students and entrepreneurs.
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Elara Caring Appoints Its Former COO as New Chief Executive

by | Jun 26, 2025
Ananth Mohan brings more than two decades of experience leading complex healthcare organizations and has served as Elara Caring’s chief operating officer since 2021.
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TIME’s 2025 covers feature star power—with Ryan Reynolds of Maximum Effort and Waymo’s co-CEOs front and center. But the list also includes standout innovation coming straight out of Dallas.
Two Dallas Companies Land on TIME100 Most Influential—Alongside the World’s Biggest Brands
by | Jun 26, 2025
While TIME put Maximum Effort and Waymo on its 2025 worldwide covers, Dallas future-shaping companies are in the mix. Two are Dallas-based. Another Texas company—now a $2B brand—got its start here, too.
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Nearly 1,000 ‘Part Owners’: Dallas Data Center Co. DataBank Launches Employee Ownership Program
by | Jun 26, 2025
The DataBank Employee Ownership Program "has the potential to generate a meaningful wealth-building opportunity" by providing a one-time bonus of up to 12 months compensation in addition to an employee's regular salary and benefits, the company said.
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Flytrex, DoorDash Partner on Drone Deliveries From ‘Dozens’ of Restaurants in Frisco and Little Elm
by | Jun 26, 2025
Flytrex has been delivering restaurant food by drone in North Texas since 2022. Now, thanks to a new partnership with DoorDash, it's packing its high-capacity drones with food from "dozens" of local and national restaurants—and flying orders to parts of Frisco and Little Elm. And more DFW sites are coming soon.
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Operio Group Names Former Reynolds Polymer CEO as Its New Chief Executive

by | Jun 25, 2025
Declan McLaughlin brings leadership experience in operations, growth strategy, and team development to the Fort Worth-based portfolio of companies serving the solid dose manufacturing industry.
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Dallas’ Unity Partners Invests in Fractional Finance, Marketing, and HR Services Firm Amplēo
by | Jun 25, 2025
Utah-based Amplēo said it's benefitting from a 170% increase in demand for fractional leaders since 2022. Over the last year, it has expanded its services by acquiring Stage Marketing, The Sales Tax People, and Peak Business Valuation.
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State Awards $25M to Texas Trees Foundation to Transform Southwestern Medical District
by | Jun 25, 2025
The funding for the nearly $200 million streetscape and park redevelopment "ensures that Texas continues to lead with evidence-based design, research, innovation, and smart urban planning," said the foundation's CEO, Janette Monear.
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The 2025 Southwest winners and stakeholders gather on stage at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards last weekend. [Photo via Dennis Cail]
The Last Word: EOY Judge On What It Really Takes to Build Something Extraordinary
by | Jun 25, 2025
The 2025 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Southwest Awards were judged by a powerhouse panel of past winners—including Zirtue's Dennis Cail. What he saw in the 18 standout founders and executives? The grit and vision it takes to make it.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • American Airlines' fare classes based on an unconstrained demand forecast
  • BMIC's self-healing impact resistant roofing materials and methods of making thereof
  • Dell Products' managing unrecoverable errors for data processing systems using out of band communication channels
  • Discovery.com's itinerary based on multimedia content of interest
  • J. Hench Consulting's mastless wind turbine with stationary sails for improved power generation
  • Mazama Energy's processes for stimulating subterranean geologic formations
  • McAfee's methods to implement trusted transfer learning on transformer-based phishing detection
  • NTT Data Services' pluggable exception handling for robotic processes
  • Optics Innovation's high resolution mind-view communicator
  • rewardStyle's targeted marketing based on social media interaction
  • Segmint's consumer-specific advertisement presentation and offer library
  • The University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System's antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory compositions
  • Toyota Connected North America's vehicle systems for dynamic crowdsourced delivery
  • Verizon's validating and securing caller identification to prevent identity spoofing


Patented: IBM’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Secured Execution Environments for Edge Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 20 with a total of 130 patents granted.
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106-Year Old North Texas Industrial Maintenance Co. NCH To Merge with Delaware’s Solenis
by | Jun 24, 2025
Originally founded in Dallas in 1919 by Milton P. Levy as National Disinfectant Company, NCH now has 6,000 employees with distribution centers in 48 countries. Under the terms of the merger, the Levy family will become the largest minority shareholder in Solenis.
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Dani Austin, above, and her husband, Jordan Ramirez, co-leaders of Dallas-based Divi, are among the 18 winners of EY’s 2025 Entrepreneur Of The Year Southwest Award. Austin launched the brand in 2021 with a focus on science-backed scalp and hair health, growing it into a national name now backed by Norwest and carried by Ulta Beauty, Target, and Amazon. [Photo: Divi]
These 18 Founders and CEOs Just Won the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Southwest Award from EY
by | Jun 24, 2025
The leaders behind 15 high-growth companies ranging from energy to electronics and hair health to quesadillas are now in the running for national honors this fall.
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Trend Micro Partners with Dell and NVIDIA on ‘AI Factory’ Infrastructure Solutions
by | Jun 24, 2025
Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—said many companies are demanding that their technology vendors remove the burden of "DIY security" by delivering pre-validated and co-engineered security and infrastructure offerings. 
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