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Dallas Builder Among 3 To Be Inducted into Texas Housing Hall of Honor

by | Aug 2, 2024
Dallas' Harold Peek, who became the youngest president of the Dallas Builders Association in 1971 at age 31, joins Randy Birdwell and Larry Johnson as honorees, the Texas Association of Builders announced.
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Dallas’ Integrity Marketing Group Names New Chief Financial Officer
by | Aug 2, 2024
As CFO, Linda Zukauckas, is expected to align fast-growing Integrity's financial objectives with strategic goals to continue the company's momentum, says CEO Bryan W. Adams. The move comes as the fast-growing company continues to expand its services, having officially launched its wealth management division, Integrity Wealth, in June. The new division now manages over $46 billion in assets.
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Dallas-Based Arcosa Acquires Stavola’s Construction Materials Business for $1.2 Billion
by | Aug 2, 2024
In an era of cloud-based software buyouts, this 10-figure deal is as down-to-earth as it gets. New Jersey-based Stavola specializes in aggregates and vertically integrated construction materials. It operates five hard rock natural aggregates quarries, 12 asphalt plants, and three recycled aggregates sites, primarily serving the New York-New Jersey metro area.
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Dallas’ 46 Labs Acquires Colorado-Based Impact Telecom
by | Aug 1, 2024
46 Labs said the acquisition will allow it to continue solving the world's largest connectivity problems by modernizing legacy infrastructure.
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DFW Business Valuation Firm ValueScope Merges with L.A.’s Marshall & Stevens

by | Aug 1, 2024
Southlake-based ValueScope is the fifth such firm to merge with Marshall & Stevens since March 2023. The L.A.-based company was founded in 1932 during the Great Depression.
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TopGolf Unveils Unbuyable ‘Sure Thing’ Driver With Wild Marketing Claim
by | Aug 1, 2024
OK, there's not really a chicken wing hidden inside The Sure Thing, an easy-to-swing driver at Topgolf locations nationwide. That's just the secret marketing sauce behind the innovative golf stick, designed in collaboration with Calloway engineers so novice players won't "whiff" the ball.
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Dallas-Fort Worth Biotech Targets Cancer’s ‘Achilles Heel’ with Nanotechnology
OncoNano's innovative approach to cancer treatment leverages nanotechnology to bring tumors into the light.
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Drone History Made in North Texas with First FAA-Approved Commercial Flights Without Visual Observers
by | Aug 1, 2024
Wing and Zipline have partnered with Walmart to offer drone deliveries for "up to 75%" of DFW residents, along with providing services for other area businesses. Now the two innovators have received the first-ever FAA approval to operate drones beyond line of sight in the same shared airspace using new UAS traffic management technology (UTM).
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Vistra Gets NRC Approval to Operate Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant Through 2053

by | Jul 31, 2024
Irving-based Vistra Energy has received Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval for the extended operation of the two-unit Comanche Peak facility. It's the third of Vistra's four nuclear plants to receive license extensions from the NRC.
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Dallas’ Spectral AI Is Developing a Battlefield Burn Assessment Tool
by | Jul 31, 2024
The company noted that burn wounds account for a significant portion of combat-related injuries. Its DeepView SnapShot M device is designed to be an integral part of the battlefield triage process by providing a quick and accurate wound assessment, so that those with more severe burn injuries can be prioritized for evacuation.
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The Last Word: Kenny Clark on Snagging a McKinney Minuteman Press Franchise for Just $32K
by | Jul 31, 2024
In 2014, Clark scouted North Texas for a Minuteman Press printing services franchise with a secret ingredient: failure. He told Entrepreneur's Liz Brody he liked the company, but opening a new franchise could set. him back more than $200K. So he found a struggling location in McKinney and got the deal of a lifetime—snapping up the franchise for just $11,000 plus a $21,000 transfer fee.
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Patented: NICE Ltd.’s Complaint Detection and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of July 9, 2024. 122 patents granted include: K2M's expandable spinal implants, Nice Ltd.'s systems and methods for detecting complaint interactions, Plainsight Technologies' system and method of detecting gas leaks, Reddy Ice's bagged ice dispensing machine, Roku's centralized mediation between ad-replacement platforms, Spark Biomedical's wearable auricular neurostimulator and methods of use, VPAY's system and method for virtual payment fraud detection.
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Trend Micro Launches Deepfake Detection Technology To Protect Consumers and Businesses

by | Jul 30, 2024
Trend Micro, which has its U.S. HQ in Irving, is offering a free Deepfake Inspector that can alert consumers to potentially fraudulent deepfakes during a video call. For enterprises, new deepfake detection technology will offer a variety of advanced methods to detect AI-generated content.
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Ylang 23 Unveils Luxe New Flagship Jewelry Store in The Shops of Highland Park, Eyes Four Decades of Family-Owned Innovation
by | Jul 30, 2024
Nearly 40 years after opening its first flagship location at Galleria Dallasband 10 years after relocating to Preston Center, the Dallas-based designer jewelry brand has unveiled its newly relocated store on Oak Lawn Avenue. It features storytelling elements, "fantasy and folklore" wallpaper, a creamy bouclé seating area, and oh yes—the jewelry.
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Dallas’ Inferno Capital Group Snags Stake in Digital Marketing Agency Brand Sharks
by | Jul 29, 2024
Inferno's portfolio includes verticals in oil & gas, energy, solar, and the digital world. Now it's added a marketing agency founded in March by a 21-year-old Instagram influencer with 1.7 million followers.
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Dallas-Based Kandi America Launches Limited-Edition Dallas Cowboys Golf Carts (Plus 31 Others)
by | Jul 29, 2024
Available online exclusively at Lowe’s, the officially licensed NFL team edition golf carts feature a 5,000-watt motor and are powered by a 48V Lithium 150Ah battery, Kandi America said—and are designed for "gameday festivities or a leisurely drive around your neighborhood."
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