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Topgolf Launches Experience Inspired by Marvel Studios’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World’

by | Jan 30, 2025
Topgolf said the limited-time experience is available at all Topgolf U.S. venues Feb. 1 through April 13. It's accompanied by a national in-venue sweepstakes and limited-time menu items.
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Dallas-Based Dalfen Industrial, Goldman Sachs Partnership Snaps Up 21 Properties for a Reported $293M
by | Jan 30, 2025
The companies have worked together in the logistics real estate sector since 2020, focusing on last-mile industrial properties and distribution centers. The newly acquired portfolio with strategic assets across Dallas, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, and Pennsylvania is 92% leased to 68 tenants, including prominent names such as Amazon, Red Bull, and Packaging Corporation of America.
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Fetal Care Center Dallas Tapped to Deploy First-in-U.S. Ultrasound Technology
by | Jan 30, 2025
The Dallas maternal-fetal medicine practice calls Samsung's Hera Z20—which uses advanced AI and other features to enhance diagnostic accuracy—a "pre-natal game changer for women's health."
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Dallas-Based DataBank Gets $250M Equity Investment from TJC, Announces $600M Secondary Share Sale
by | Jan 30, 2025
DataBank—a data center company providing edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services—said the new funding resulted from "excess investor interest" in its recent $2 billion primary equity round. Total debt and equity raised by DataBank in the past 18 months: nearly $5 billion.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 7-Eleven's item identification using multiple cameras
  • Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' method for controlling neurostimulation according to user activity detected through patient use of icon driven user interface
  • Bank of America's building and training a network of chatbots
  • Capital One's systems for augmented reality navigation
  • Digital Porpoise's modeling a network data center architecture
  • Global Tel*Link's system for analyzing and investigating communication data from a controlled environment
  • Huawei's blockchain enhanced route authorization
  • Reliance Jio's cloud automation microbots
  • Siemens Healthineers' cardio AI smart assistant for semantic image analysis of medical imaging studies
  • USAA's systems for titles and title insurance for non-fungible tokens
  • Verily Life Sciences' methods for using image processing to generate inferences of biomarker for immunotherapy
  • Verizon's systems for indicating and managing a validation of a caller identification to prevent identity spoofing
  • Wells Fargo's quantum and classical cryptography (QCC) for data encryption and data decryption


Patented: Microsoft’s Anomaly Detection in Post‑Authentication User Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 24 with a total of 133 patents granted.
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From Fentanyl to DIY Food Safety: Dr. Shalini Prasad’s Groundbreaking Trifecta of Detection Devices
by | Jan 29, 2025
Combining cutting-edge research and real-world applications, the UT Dallas professor transforms public health with innovations in detection technology, including “a check engine light” for the human body. In collaboration with EnLiSense, the company she cofounded, Dr. Prasad combines chemistry with software and hardware to bring the technology to life as market-ready devices.
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Industry Veteran Joins LateralCare as CPO, Aims to ‘Reintroduce Humanity into Healthcare’
by | Jan 29, 2025
Niobis Queiro, who has more than three decades of experience, will guide Southlake-based LateralCare's product vision and strategy, the healthcare technology company said.
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Smoothie King’s New CMO Aims to Build on Brand Purpose and Drive Growth
by | Jan 29, 2025
Dallas-based Smoothie King said Claudia Schaefer brings a wealth of experience in driving revenue growth, enhancing profitability, and elevating the customer experience, making her the ideal leader to guide the company into its next phase of growth.
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North Texas’ Skyven Inks $70M Agreement with France’s Kyotherm to Advance Industrial ‘Decarbonization’

by | Jan 29, 2025
The co-development and project finance agreement will accelerate deployment of Skyven's cutting-edge, "decarbonizing" heat-pump technology at industrial manufacturing facilities, reducing emissions and improving air quality in local communities.
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LinkedIn Ranks the 10 Fastest‑Growing Jobs in Dallas‑Fort Worth
by | Jan 29, 2025
LinkedIn News' 2025 list of Jobs on the Rise in Dallas has a not-so-surprising winner at No. 1: Artificial Intelligence Engineer. But some of the other fastest-growing jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth may surprise you.
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New Fort Worth City Manager Sworn in at Old City Hall
by | Jan 28, 2025
Formerly deputy city manager, Jesus “Jay” Chapa replaces David Cooke as city manager. Cooke is retiring in February after more than 10 years of service to the city. Chapa is Fort Worth's first Hispanic city manager.
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Dallas-Based Global Research Firm Everest Group Names New CEO
by | Jan 28, 2025
Jimit Arora will take the chief executive reins from Everest Group founder and longtime CEO Peter Bendor-Samuel, who will assume the role of founder and executive chairman on Feb. 1.
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North Texas’ TrailRunner International To Be Acquired by PPHC for $33M

by | Jan 28, 2025
TrailRunner, a Southlake-based strategy and communications advisory firm, will add more than 80 full-time professionals across eight global offices to PPHC's network, strengthening the Washington, D.C.-based firm's offerings in fields including sports and financial communications.
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The Last Word: Azzurro Living’s Brandon Kershner on His 2025 Outdoor Furniture Collection
by | Jan 28, 2025
Azzurro Living—a "luxury-driven" outdoor furniture company in the Dallas Design District—aims to push the boundaries of craftsmanship for outdoor-indoor lifestyles. "We founded Azzurro Living on our love for design and saw an opportunity to bring something truly exciting to the outdoor furniture space," Partner and VP of Design Brandon Kershner said in a statement.
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Tarrant County College Receives $280K Grant for Four Healthcare Programs
by | Jan 26, 2025
The grant was awarded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and will provide essential skills and improve patient care in and around Tarrant County, especially to those living in underserved areas.
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Dallas-Based AT&T Sells 74 ‘Stranded’ Office Properties Across U.S. for Over $850M
by | Jan 25, 2025
The offices house AT&T's legacy copper networks and are located across the country.
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