Impact

Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Launches First-of-its-Kind Digital Tools to Aid Local Homebuyers

by | Feb 20, 2019
This week, Dallas Area Habitat launched two online "game-changers"—a mobile app and digital education library—to ease the process of purchasing a home.
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Texas Healthcare Challenge Recap, StackPath Helps Form Kinetic Edge Alliance, Topgolf Moves Into Esports
by | Feb 16, 2019
From tech bytes (IBM, UTD, Physmodo) to accolades (Masergy, McKinney, and more) to our weekly top 10 (Angie's List parent acquires Fixd Repair), here's your rundown on ideas and innovation in North Texas.
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Look Inside: VITAS Healthcare Opens New Hospice Care Facility in Dallas’ Southern Sector
by | Feb 15, 2019
The state-of-the-art wing at Methodist Dallas Medical Center attends to the spectrum of patient needs, whether medical, emotional, social and spiritual. The care model includes massage and music therapy, pet visits, and a veterans’ program. Take a look inside the 13,000-square-foot Inpatient Hospice Unit with a photo tour.
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Meet the Innovators:
Corey Clark, BALANCED Media Technology

Collectively, Clark and his team have started a number of tech and gaming companies in the region, have strong ties to SMU, and see Dallas-Fort Worth as primed to be the next big technology center in the country. They want to be leaders in that mission.
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Coworking Grows Up: Shared Space Is One of North Texas’ Hottest Placemaking Tools
by | Feb 13, 2019
Coworking has become a mainstay in the Dallas-Fort Worth office market. No longer considered a fad, the region has over 1 million square feet of shared space in play—and it's not stopping there.
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Look Inside: 2019 Dallas Innovates Magazine Reception
The region's most innovative minds join Dallas Innovates to celebrate North Texas' 'Breakout Moment.'
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Tech Tower: Fort Worth’s Elbit Systems is Upgrading Border Control
by | Feb 12, 2019
The high-tech towers can differentiate between people, groups of people, animals, and even vehicles, while also detecting whether the people or vehicles are carrying weapons, drugs, children, or other risky items.
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Dollars for Good: Gov. Grants $18M to Prevent Trafficking, Southwest Airlines Selects Nonprofits for $1M Program

Plus, the Crow Family gives their Asian art collection and $23M to UTD, Jacobs invests in an energy-saving project, and the Harts donate to SMU for a new technology and entrepreneurship institute in this roundup of social efforts boosting nonprofits in North Texas.
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ICYMI: How Robots and AI Impact Jobs, DFW Ranks for Economic Freedom, Finnish MaaS Pioneer Shortlists Dallas
by | Feb 2, 2019
From tech bytes (OnRobot, NoiseAware, AT&T) to accolades (Raytheon, Craig Hall, Aprima Medical, and more) to our weekly top 10 (Anurag Jain), here's your briefing on ideas and innovation in North Texas.
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North Texas Genome Center: Leading the Way in Biometrics

by | Jan 31, 2019
At the North Texas Genome Center in Arlington, scientists are unlocking human DNA through genome sequencing to create databases that would inform doctors of the right care approach.
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Ripple Effects: Four North Texas Innovators That ‘Think Locally, Act Globally’
by | Jan 31, 2019
That adage is a fundamental business strategy for these North Texas corporates, nonprofits, educators, and individuals out to make a difference.
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Ripple Effect: Big Ideas Become a Reality in North Texas
by | Jan 31, 2019
Meet the ten companies that have formed partnerships, invented new deployments in emerging technology, or reimagined retail to make an impact here and beyond.
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