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North Texas’ Buff City Soap Launches Its First Fragrance ‘Uniquely Crafted for Laundry Care’
by David Seeley | Apr 16, 2026
Primarily designed for laundry care across various laundry soaps, scent boosters, and dryer balls, the new Fruits with Benefits fragrance line also extends across a wide range of home, cleaning, and body care products spanning room spray, foaming hand soap, body wash and lotion, bar soap, multi-surface cleaner and more, Addison-based Buff City said.
by David Seeley |
Apr 16, 2026
The planned upgrades include a "store-based app experience" aimed at helping customers easily navigate through stores, book services at Walmart’s Auto Care Center, and more.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 16, 2026
Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Monarch Tractor had been called "the Tesla of agriculture" for developing what it called "the world's first fully electric, driver-optional, autonomous smart tractor." Valued at $500 million in 2024, it has had a bumpy ride since then—leading Caterpillar to acquire its core technology, according to Bloomberg.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 16, 2026
“The old human-in-the-loop rules really don’t work as well when you’re looking at ubiquitous, automated AI agents that are acting 24/7 as digital workers.”
Danny Tobey, M.D., J.D.
Chair, AI and Data Analytics
DLA Piper
…speaking at Convergence AI Dallas on March 31
We’re moving “from an era of chatbot AI, where there is always a human at the receiving end of recommendations, to agentic and physical AI,” a world, Danny Tobey said, where AI “takes actions and makes decisions on behalf of humans” and “does so in ways that don’t always stop for human intervention, permission and understanding.”...
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Sabrina Callahan, SVP and Chief Digital & Marketing Officer at Southwest Airlines. [Sources: Photo, Brianna Juda/Southwest Airlines; Background, istockphoto; Composite image, DI Studio]
Southwest Airlines Names Former Hilton Exec as Its First Chief Digital & Marketing Officer
by David Seeley | Apr 15, 2026
In the newly created role, Sabrina Callahan will help shape the strategic path for Southwest's marketing and digital strategy, enhancing the relationship between the airline's customers and its brand in an "authentic, distinctly Southwest way," the airline said.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 15, 2026
Phil Bathurst will help support the continued national growth and expansion of Fort Worth-based Coltala Aerospace, which was created in February 2025 through Coltala Holdings' acquisition of Mansfield-based AeroParts Group.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 15, 2026
As a "monetization engine" for collegiate sports IP, Learfield links more than 12,000 brands and over 1,200 institutions with sponsorship and media solutions, ticketing tech, licensing management, NIL strategy, and AI-enabled data platforming.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 15, 2026
Created in 2024 via Tempur Sealy International's $5 billion acquisition of Mattress Firm, Somnigroup is now paying billions in stock for Carthage, Missouri-based Leggett & Platt, a NYSE-listed, 1883-founded manufacturing company that happens to be one of its leading suppliers.
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AT&T's patented quantum security system is designed to automatically detect intrusions on secure communication channels across classical and quantum networks, deploy generative AI to find an "alternative secure communication channel," and migrate services to it. Irving-based David H. Lu is the inventor. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12580949, Fig. 2A; DI Studio]
Patented: AT&T’s Quantum Security and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Apr 15, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 17 with a total of 140 patents granted.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 14, 2026
The Beijing-based company moved its U.S. HQ to McKinney in 2024 before recently relocating to bigger digs in Plano. Since its 2015 acquisition by Ninebot, Segway has gone beyond "Mall Cop" to offer a wide array of electric personal transportation devices—including today's launch of the MUXI.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 14, 2026
Fort Worth-based Bell has announced an April construction start for its $632 million factory in North Fort Worth, which will build parts for the U.S. Army's MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft. Collins—which operates facilities in Richardson and Haltom City—will be delivering five critical systems for the aircraft, which is replacing the famed Black Hawk helicopter.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 14, 2026
Dallas' third poet laureate Kristoddie Woods steps in alongside youth poet laureate Cadence Diggs, a 17-year-old Booker T. Washington High School student, for a two-year term.
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Graphic: The U.S.-Japan Council
East Meets West: 2026 Japan-Texas Economic Summit in Arlington May 11‑13
by David Seeley | Apr 14, 2026
First launched in 2018, the invitation-only summit is returning as an "annual signature event" for strengthening U.S.-Japan economic ties, with Arlington serving as host city for three consecutive years. Topics include everything from biotech to next-gen mobility to sports & entertainment—and, of course, AI.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 13, 2026
Tracey Brown joins VertexOne—a leading provider of cloud software "designed to revolutionize the customer experience within the energy and utility industry"—with more than two decades of executive leadership experience. Her most recent post was at Vertafore, an Ohio-based global tech company serving the insurance industry.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 13, 2026
For over a month, Patriot missile interceptors have been fired at Iran's incoming ballistic missiles by the U.S. and its allies across the Mideast. Now a multi-billion-dollar contract between the U.S. government and Lockheed—whose Missiles and Fire Control division is headquartered in North Texas—aims to deliver "record numbers" of the interceptors for American and allied forces this year.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 9, 2026
Dallas-based Bestow said Meagan Ward strengthens its senior leadership team as the company expands its "product offerings, platform capabilities, and strategic partnerships" following the 2025 close of its $120 million Series D round.
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