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Education: Amazon’s Future Engineer Program, AECOM’s UTA Hypermobility Class, SMU’s New Cybersecurity Master’s Degree

From higher education projects (TWU, DCCCD) to K-12 initiatives (Dallas County, Trinity Christian Academy), here's your briefing on what's going on in education in North Texas.
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Amazon Air
Amazon Air To Open Innovative Regional Hub at Alliance Airport
by | Dec 11, 2018
Amazon says the Fort Worth hub will be a first-of-its-kind facility for the company and will be based in Haslet, which is already home to an Amazon fulfillment center.
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Jack
Jack Automation Uses Conversational AI to Help Landlords Handle Issues at Their Properties
by | Jul 25, 2018
The technology was developed to revolutionize how landlords manage clogged sinks, broken air conditioners, and other issues that come up.
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consumer packaged goods
Entrepreneurs Hear How to Succeed at Dallas Consumer Product Innovations Day
by | Jul 13, 2018
Several successful CPG entrepreneurs told their stories at the Dallas Consumer Product Innovations Day at the Addison TreeHouse Thursday. Other companies got to pitch their ideas to the experts and the audience.
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CruiseBe's Marina and Alex Shumaiev at TechCrunch Disrupt.

From Trip Itineraries To Navigable Maps, Dallas Startup Puts Cruise Planning In One Platform

by | Feb 7, 2018
What started as a trip aggregator has evolved into everything someone needs to take a cruise.
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OkCupid
OkCupid Dating App Finds a CEO Match in Ariel Charytan
by | Feb 2, 2018
The new CEO comes to OkCupid from Audible, an Amazon company, where he was senior vice president.
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Cuban
Cuban Offers 3 Rules for Entrepreneurs in Amazon Video
by | Feb 1, 2018
The Dallas Mavericks owner is one of six notable American entrepreneurs and authors featured in the series.
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The Cedars
Bullet Train Terminal Would Put Dallas’ The Cedars on Track to Economic Boon
by | Jan 30, 2018
Developers of the train terminal say that it will lead to economic growth in The Cedars, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
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Gemmy

Varidesk Parent Introduces Alexa-Controlled Lights

by | Dec 4, 2017
Coppell-based Gemmy Industries is an innovator in the area of novelties and animation, and brought the world Big Mouth Billy Bass.
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Patents were assigned to Apple Inc., Mary Kay, San Disk, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Omnitracs
Dallas Invents: 84 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 7
Patents secured include Omnitrac's vehicle parking system, Apple's invention to solve communication disruption problems, and SMU's integrated circuits to protect hidden content.
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Eosera
Eosera Enters Canadian Market With Ear Treatment
by | Nov 14, 2017
The Fort Worth biotech startup developed a topical treatment that dissolves earwax, the first over-the-counter product of its kind.
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Dallas Invents: 90 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 31
Patents secured range from inventions for detecting explosives to vandalism detection using video and noise cancellation.
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Dallas Invents: 74 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 24

Patents secured range from Amazon's inter-service network communication optimization to Robokind's system and method for controlling animated characters for lifelike interactions to Health Happy Pets' method for creating an animal litter that detects health conditions in felines.
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Aldi + Instacart
ALDI Pilots Delivering Groceries in Dallas, 2 Other Cities
by | Aug 18, 2017
An increasing number of grocers are finding ways to make food shopping easier for their customers.
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Cart in supermarket or mall full of crowded people. Blur motion.
What’s On Trend in Retail? REVTECH Founder: It’s About Customer Experience
by | Jun 19, 2017
David Matthews said others in the industry can learn from Amazon's "relentless focus on the customer."
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fulfillment
Amazon Plans 3rd Fulfillment Center in Coppell
by | Jan 24, 2017
Amazon said the new facility will be "a new addition to the Amazon Robotics fulfillment network."
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