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The Last Word: When AI Rewrote the Famous “Barbie” Speech for Nonprofits
by David Seeley | Mar 20, 2025
When AI rewrote the Barbie speech for nonprofits, it hit uncomfortably close to home from impossibly tight budgets to donor expectations. Social entrepreneur Suzanne Smith says it's time for leaders to dive in and try Gen AI for themselves.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2025
Focused on the acquisition, development, optimization, and exploitation of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid reserves in North America, Fort Worth-based TXO said Gary D. Simpson and Brent W. Clum will serve as co-CEOs after current CEO Bob R. Simpson retires, effective April 1.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2025
Frisco-based Netwrix has made four new executive appointments in its go-to-market leadership team, including two additions to its C-suite: Chief Revenue Officer Britt Norwood and Chief Marketing Officer John Knightly.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2025
The company said Keith Schroeder brings more than 40 years of experience in accounting, corporate control and reporting, finance, operations, and CEO and CFO strategic roles.
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Pete Lempert will succeed Glenn Dady as TRG's CEO on March 31. [Photo: TRG]
Dallas Ad Agency TRG Announces Longtime Principal as Its New CEO
by Lance Murray | Mar 20, 2025
Pete Lempert joined leading Dallas ad agency TRG—formerly known as The Richards Group—in 1994. He's led business for brands including Corona Beer, Nokia, Advance Auto Parts, Amstel Beer, Learjet, Mohawk Flooring, Charles Schwab, Orkin, and Sewell Automotive.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2025
Carrollton-based Rebel said its partnership with the San Francisco PE firm will provide the resources, supply chain expertise, and capital necessary to scale rapidly across multiple segments—including school, youth, recreational, and Allstar Cheer, as well as pro team, Allstar Dance, and studio dance.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 19, 2025
Buxton said the acquisition—its second in two years—further accelerates its mission to deliver deep consumer insights and help drive meaningful connections between brands and their consumers.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 19, 2025
Archer Review, a healthcare education company and a portfolio company of Leeds Equity Partners, said the acquisition strengthens its mission to advance student, professional, and institutional success, ultimately improving patient outcomes.
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HITRUST CEO Daniel Nutkis [Photo: HITRUST]
Frisco Cybersecurity Co. HITRUST Snags Growth Investment from NYC’s Brighton Park
by Lance Murray | Mar 19, 2025
HITRUST said the investment will support its "continued expansion and innovation" in cybersecurity and information risk assurance amid growing global concerns about cyber threats and regulatory compliance.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 19, 2025
Circular Services said the facility will serve as a "circularity campus," able to house a variety of material management services for municipal and commercial customers in McKinney, Frisco, and surrounding communities.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 19, 2025
The acquisition will allow CSWI to expand its existing HVAC/R product line with "an innovative portfolio of high-caliber evaporator coils and air handlers," while building on its existing HVAC/R end market leadership position, the company said.
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by Quincy Preston and David Seeley |
Mar 19, 2025
From the Gabb Phone 4, which aims to be "the most trusted safe phone" for kids and teens, to the NUU B30 Pro 5G, named the "Best Affordable Gaming Phone" by PCMag, Irving-based NUU is delivering on its mantra of "better smartphones, better prices." CEO Danny Sit calls Dallas "the perfect home" for NUU's dialed-up expansion—and 3 straight years on the Inc. 5000 list back him up.
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7-Eleven, Inc. has received a newly granted patent for "Detecting and Identifying Misplaced Items Using a Sensor Array," invented by Plano-based Deepanjan Paul, Irving-based Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy and Sarath Vakacharla, and Celina-based Shahmeer Ali Mirza. The patent describes a system that uses sensors and a tracking system to monitor store shelves, detect misplaced items, and update digital carts in real time. [Image: USPTO Patent #12223537, Fig. 33A]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Alert The Mechanism's system and method for emergency vehicle detection and alerting
- Amera IoT's method and apparatus for using a picture and shared secret to create replicable high quality pools of entropy for keys for encryption, authentication and one time pads for images, data and message encoding
- Bank of America's data security in virtual-world systems
- Capital One's systems and methods for measuring document legibility
- Citibank's end-to-end measurement, grading and evaluation of pretrained artificial intelligence models via a graphical user interface
- Hitrust Services' risk modeling for cyberspace control implementation deficiencies
- Hunt Energy Enterprises' coating of electrode materials for energy storage devices
- RO5's system and method for molecular reconstruction from molecular probability distributions
- SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for using risk profiles based on previously detected vehicle events to quantify performance of vehicle operators
- Texas Instruments' hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor
- Toyota's analysis of transport damage
- Verizon's systems and methods for device grouping based on quantum resistant encryption capability
- Wing Aviation's semantic adjustment of unmanned aerial vehicle delivery points
Patented: 7-Eleven’s Sensor Array for Detecting Misplaced Items and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 19, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 11 with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 18, 2025
Tom Kim brings more than a decade of executive-level finance, corporate development, and business strategy experience to his role as CFO, effective April 7. In addition, the company named Katie Mullen as its chief commercial officer and Chris Andrews as chief Information and digital officer.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 18, 2025
Cien.ai said that Gertrude Van Horn will oversee the deployment of Agentic AI and the evolution of Cien.ai’s internal data systems, and act as a liaison to the broader ecosystem of IT leaders and vendors who seek transformative AI solutions.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 18, 2025
With David King taking up his former post, Primoris—a Dallas-based rovider of critical infrastructure services to the utility, energy, and renewables markets throughout the U.S. and Canada—is now conducting a search for a permanent CEO.
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