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Hotel Newland has been converted into apartments. On the Cedars Corner building's first floor, a business incubator of sorts is offering a home to some innovative Black-owned businesses. [Photo: JSK Cedars Corner LP]
Historic Cedars Corner Building in Dallas Gets New Life–and Becomes Home to These Black- and Women-Owned Businesses
by Lance Murray | Apr 3, 2023
In 1923, the building was home to the Newland Hotel and a Piggly Wiggly grocery story in The Cedars neighborhood directly south of downtown Dallas. Now known as Cedars Corner, its first floor is an incubator of sorts for a distinctive collection of Black and women-owned businesses committed to bringing life back to the historic space. Meet the owners and see what they're cooking up.
by Lance Murray |
Apr 3, 2023
Along with formalizing its policy on innovation districts, the Fort Worth city council said the city's Medical Innovation District and AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone— two areas already well-known as clusters of innovation in the city’s target industries—have been formally designated as innovation zones.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 3, 2023
With the latest beta release of its Aurora Driver autonomous driving system, Aurora Innovation says it's reached a "feature complete" milestone. This could put the company one step closer to its goal of totally human-free freight runs between Dallas and Houston by late 2024.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 31, 2023
The new LTK Boost advertising solution lets brands amplify creator collaboration content directly from the creator’s social media handles. The Dallas-based global creator marketing platform says that will lead to "higher engagement and conversion."
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Arlo Eisenberg Is Skating On the Creative Edge
by David Seeley | Mar 30, 2023
Eisenberg, the doodling Dallas artist behind Drug Receipts NFTs, is pushing the boundaries of creativity. Along with his Dallas Design District creative agency—named simply Eisenberg—he runs the NFT company with two former pro rollerblading buddies.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 30, 2023
FT's new list of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the Americas covers a three-year period from 2018 to 2021 when economies were "powering out of the pandemic." This year's list features six companies in Dallas, Plano, McKinney, and Coppell. See how the median revenue of ranked companies almost doubled on this year's list—and find out which local companies made the cut.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 30, 2023
Music Audience Exchange (MAX) has acquired My Artist Pages LLC, also known as AMAP.to, to offer artists new capabilities for managing their digital presence and connecting with fans.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 29, 2023
The request was made in an open letter signed by major players including Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI, the lab that created ChatGPT and GPT-4; Emad Mostaque, founder of the London-based Stability AI; and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers, and backers signed the letter, including academics from UT Dallas.
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Logile offers AI/ML-driven software solutions for retailers. [Image courtesy Logile]
Following Series A Investment, Logile Launches AI-Driven Forecasting Pilot Program for Retailers
by Lance Murray | Mar 28, 2023
The Southlake-based company says retailers can sign up and use what it calls the industry's most powerful, accurate AI and ML-driven metric forecasting through a fully automated self-serve platform—all at no obligation. "We're confident retailers will be intrigued and delighted when they compare our automated forecast results with their actuals and legacy forecasts," says Founder and CEO Purna Mishra.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 28, 2023
Grunewald is one of four principals of Devil's Cask, along with Stella Amador, Jonathan Dietzel, and Fort Worth-based COO Chase Ament. All four are former roofers who teamed up after Grunewald had a light bulb moment while touring a Jameson Whiskey distillery in Ireland, according to the Star-Telegram's Brayden Garcia.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 27, 2023
More than 17 million tons of textiles go to landfills every year, but nearly 95% of all textiles are reusable or recyclable. CheckSammy, whose U.S. headquarters is in Dallas, aims to help through its Drop program, which allows clothing retailers, manufacturers, and even multifamily apartment communities to deploy drop bags or bins and schedule one-time or recurring recycling pick-ups.
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by Sandra Engelland |
Mar 27, 2023
Once solely focused on medical issues, the Fort Worth-based telemedicine company is evolving to holistically address physical and mental health needs of today's college students, improving outcomes for academics and life.
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Mandy Price of Kanarys, left, and Brook Sims, right, of MAC Diversity Recruiters
Kanarys and MAC Diversity Recruiters Partner to Create More Inclusive Workplaces
by Lance Murray | Mar 23, 2023
Kanarys and MAC Diversity Recruiters have joined forces to help organizations create more diverse and inclusive workplaces through data-driven diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging solutions and recruitment expertise.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 23, 2023
With recent financing from FirstBank, the company's innovative solution—a digital lending platform for manufactured home loans—is available in 11 states, including Texas. Zippy plans to more than double its footprint in 2023 by establishing partnerships with hundreds of communities.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 22, 2023
Plano-based CG Infinity has hired Tanya Shepherd as vice president of delivery to help accelerate its energy and utilities customers’ digital transformation and business processes initiatives....
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 22, 2023
Nanoscope Therapeutics has enlisted the expertise of Vicente Anido Jr., Ph.D. to help the company advance its goal of developing sight-restoring gene therapies for retinal degenerative diseases. Anido's appointment as a strategic adviser is expected to support Nanoscope's clinical and corporate strategies, especially as the company progresses towards the potential commercialization of MCO-010.
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