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Continuum cards from the Leaf Trading Cards online store. [Image via Leaf]
The Last Word: Leaf President on What Made DFW the ‘Trading Card Capital of the World’
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 19, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth has become "the trading card capital of the world," with two big industry players, Leaf and Panini America, headquartered in the region, and top local auction houses routinely hammering sales of rare, headline-grabbing cards.
by David Seeley |
Jul 18, 2024
Dallas-based coffee shop chain La La Land Kind Cafe—known for "normalizing kindness" and hiring and mentoring foster kids—is expanding its brand in Texas and California with the launch of four new locations this summer, including new cafes in Fort Worth and Plano.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 18, 2024
Frisco-based home care provider Addus HomeCare Corp. has closed on an underwritten public offering of 1.725 million shares of its common stock. Addus said the net proceeds were roughly $176 million.
The offering included 225,000 shares of common stock sold pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to buy additional shares, at a public offering price of $108 per share....
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 18, 2024
The chain, known for "normalizing kindness" and hiring and mentoring foster kids, is opening locations in Fort Worth and Plano.
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Dallas’ EXA Capital Acquires New Zealand-Based Lease Management Platform Company
by Lance Murray | Jul 18, 2024
Dallas-based EXA Capital, strategic operators and investors in growing vertical market software companies, has acquired Nomos One, a New Zealand-based lease management and lease accounting SaaS platform.
“Nomos One’s innovative approach to lease management and lease accounting aligns perfectly with our vision for the future growth of our companies,” Omer Sajid, Founder and CEO of EXA Capital, said in a statement....
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 18, 2024
IT Convergence, the Irving-based provider of enterprise applications, cloud consulting & managed services, has acquired Indianapolis-based Prophet One, a management & technology consulting firm that provides insight and solutions to maximize enterprise application outcomes for customers.
IT Convergence (ITC) said the strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone in its expansion strategy and underscores its commitment to enhancing its capabilities and offering innovative technology solutions to a broader client base across JD Edwards and PeopleSoft applications....
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 18, 2024
Heidelberg also recently announced two acquisitions in North Texas and Greater Philadelphia for a total of roughly $380 million.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 18, 2024
Solera Corp., the Westlake-based global provider of SaaS solutions for the vehicle lifecycle ecosystem, announced in late June that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S....
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Rendering of PS1200 in Fort Worth [Image: Marlon Blackwell Architects]
The Last Word: Marlon Blackwell on the PS1200 Project in Fort Worth’s Magnolia Village
by David Seeley | Jul 17, 2024
In the heart of Fort Worth's eclectic Magnolia Village neighborhood, PS1200 is an eye-catching sight. The "public space with private moments" at 1200 6th Avenue comprises a public space, a park, eight row-house apartments overlooking the park, six offices within the park, and a restaurant and two retail spaces. The key attraction, though, is those eight apartments with their swooping Quonset hut-like arches:
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by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray |
Jul 17, 2024
Snipitz is an interactive video player for live and video-on-demand streaming; rikodi is a user-generated content experience that leverages the power of memories to turn global fans into content creators. The road to their combination as one company began last year with an "introduction lunch" between the two founders.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 17, 2024
Just months after raising $10 million to spur its growth, and weeks after partnering with the Dallas Cowboys' Zack Martin, the Dallas-based footwear, gear, and apparel brand is sliding into a new home in the heart of Deep Ellum.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 17, 2024
Garland-based Massimo Group—which went public on Nasdaq in April and announced a 90,000-SF expansion of its Garland factory in May—said the automated line "will increase assembly efficiency by 50% by minimizing manual handling, decreasing labor, and enhancing safety for assembly line workers."
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Aizaco Limited Company, based in Frisco, has patented a groundbreaking system for detecting and removing microplastics from wastewater. Patent #12017928, developed by Aiza Fernanda Jose Sanchez and Carlos Alberto Hernandez Gutierrez, includes advanced monitoring and sampling components, along with a specialized capture net apparatus for efficient filtration. [Image: jurisam/istockphoto]
Patented: Aizaco’s Microplastics Detection and Removal Technology, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 17, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 25, 2024. 150 patents granted include: Amazon's grip aid, AT&T's frequency-aware cellular communication network, Bank of America's ATM leveraging edge devices for offline processing, Enseo's geolocationing system, HighLevel's systems and methods for building funnel websites using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework, Intel Corporation's technologies for managing interoperable high definition maps for autonomous vehicles, and Linear Labs' reluctance synchronous machines without permanent magnets.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jul 16, 2024
The $50 million funding will support the commercial launch of Osteal Therapeutics' pioneering combination drug/device therapy targeting biofilm infections, which are notoriously difficult to eradicate.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2024
“The changing needs of a growing older adult population are an opportunity for HSC and our partners to transform health resources and services through workforce training and education," said HSC's Jennifer Jurado Severance.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2024
Dallas-based TI says the innovation uses proprietary, newly engineered material and has been "nearly a decade in the making." Jeff Morroni of TI's Kilby Labs added that designers "turn to power modules to save on time, complexity, size and component count, but these benefits have required a compromise on performance—until now."
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