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Why Apple Chose Plano’s Argent Associates for Its Impact Accelerator Program

by | Aug 30, 2021
Apple selected Argent Associates to be one of the 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses on its first-ever Impact Accelerator class. The goal: combating systemic barriers to opportunity, while advancing innovative solutions for communities most impacted by climate change. Founder and CEO Beatriz "Betty" Manetta reveals the secret to her company's success.
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Apple Invests $410M in II-VI Inc., Supporting 700+ Jobs in Sherman and Other U.S. Cities
by | May 5, 2021
The optical tech firm produces iPhone laser technology that powers Face ID, Memoji, Animoji, and Portrait Mode selfies.
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Follow the Money: ROBO Global Launches Healthcare ETF, Arteriors Gets ‘Significant Investment’
by | Jun 27, 2019
You’ll also find news from Align Capital Partners, Mark Cuban, Hidrent, TPG, Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, Apple, and Drive.ai in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas.
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Follow the Money: Swych Sells Majority Stake; PICKUP Nets $5M; Sabre Agrees to $350M Deal for Farelogix
by | Nov 15, 2018
You’ll also find D.R. Horton, Finisar, Mr. Cooper, Mark Cuban, Pacific Union Financial, KAI Texas, Savhera PBC, HIG Holdings, Crestline Capital, Southlake Equity Group, and Texas Pride Impact Funds in this roundup of investment, merger, and acquisition activity by investors and companies with ties to North Texas.
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Apple Investment Will Help Finisar Open Sherman Plant, Create 500 Jobs

by | Dec 14, 2017
The Sherman facility will be transformed into a high-tech center developing VCSEL chips and is expected to open in the second half of 2018.
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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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Huawei Dials in on Goal to be Largest Smartphone Maker
by | Aug 2, 2017
Huawei shipped an estimated 38.4 million smartphones in the quarter, a rise of 20 percent over the same quarter a year ago
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Meet the Addison Startup Helping Wal‑Mart, Mercedes Transform Shopping
by | Jun 28, 2017
Spacee's technology is a deviceless mixed reality using projectors, motion sensing cameras, and cloud computing to digitally impose an experience on top of real world items.
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Coppell ISD Using New Digital Tool for Personalized Learning

by | Oct 19, 2016
Coppell ISD has a new digital tool to better cater to students' individual learning styles.
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Lunch Challenges
Do Lunch Different Challenge Aims to Raise $1.5M for Education
by | Sep 13, 2016
A Dallas-based startup has challenged employees at major tech giants to eat lunch with new, random co-workers.
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3 Things: Apple May Introduce a New Feature to Catch iPhone Thieves
by | Aug 30, 2016
Apple may introduce a feature that will help catch iPhone thieves, four DFW area startups will vie for "Startup of the Year," at Innovate! and Celebrate 2016, and Baylor Scott and White Health System has introduced text alerts to better reach high-risk and low-income patients.
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3 Things: High-tech Salaries Go Further in Dallas
by | Aug 22, 2016
A new study looked at high-tech salaries across the U.S., and Dallas did very well; AT&T is leading the charge against robocalls, and UberEATS makes its debut in Fort Worth.
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Apple Agrees to $24.9M Patent Settlement with Dallas Firm

by | Apr 21, 2016
Apple will get a three-year license under the settlement.
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AT&T Files Brief Backing Apple in Encryption Battle
by | Mar 4, 2016
AT&T Inc. has joined more than two dozen Internet and technology companies in filing legal briefs in support of Apple Inc. in its battle with the feds over encryption.
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