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North Texas’ Ultimate Coding Championship Levels Up: Streaming Reality Show Renewed for 2025
by Quincy Preston | Oct 17, 2024
Software engineering becomes an exciting spectator sport as top tech talent races against the clock, tackling global issues from agriculture to accessibility, with real-world challenges and big cash prizes at stake. Here's how to watch—or become a contender.
by Lance Murray |
Jul 14, 2023
Addison-based Bottle Rocket—a globally acclaimed digital experience consultancy and part of the Ogilvy worldwide network—has appointed Andrew Sevin as its new president.
The firm said that Sevin will be responsible for Bottle Rocket’s strategic direction, operations management, HR and people functions, and revenue and growth trajectory....
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 29, 2022
Addison-based Bottle Rocket has promoted three execs into the new roles as it eyes continued growth.
The leadership moves come after the experience consultancy and app maker began the year with a new CEO. Founder and former top executive Calvin Carter is working on a new, stealthy venture called Talon Labs.
The leadership moves come after the experience consultancy and app maker began the year with a new CEO. Founder and former top executive Calvin Carter is working on a new, stealthy venture called Talon Labs.
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by David Seeley |
Dec 10, 2021
BALANCED Media | Technology has won the second annual Grand Challenge competition for its edge computing solution. Gamers downloaded a small game. While they played, they were also processing data to help find COVID-fighting compounds.
Its HEWMEN crowd-computing platform
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Meet the Finalists for Tech Titans’ 20th Annual Awards Gala
by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards | Oct 6, 2020
The Roaring Twenties-themed virtual event will be a live, cinematic experience complete with a "Speakeasy Party To Go" feature for at-home watch parties. See who could take home an award.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 8, 2020
Get an inside look from some of North Texas' female entrepreneurs and C-Suite professionals to see what they consider to be the keys to success.
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by Dave Moore |
Jul 1, 2020
The CEO talks with us about how the company is adapting to the future of work and business in the time of COVID.
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by Sophia Gonzalez |
Jun 15, 2020
The Addison-based digital experience consultancy has also created a starter pack with resources and activities to help other companies join the movement.
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Study: Bottle Rocket Finds Quick Service Restaurants Remain In Demand
by Lauren Hawkins | Apr 27, 2020
Among other findings researched following the COVID-19 outbreak, the Addison-headquartered company found that more than a third of customers will rely heavily on quick service restaurants in the coming weeks.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 21, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership moves by companies and organizations in North Texas, you'll also find news from Stryve, Transplace, RKD Group, Conifer Health Solutions, Comerica Bank, Tenet Healthcare, and Civitas Capital Group.
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by Dallas Innovates and D CEO |
Jan 17, 2020
This January, Dallas Innovates and D CEO magazine hosted The Innovation Awards 2020, an inaugural event honoring local people and companies in 13 categories.
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by DI Content Studio | Special Advertising Section |
Feb 5, 2019
Musings on innovation from the region's paradigm-shifting companies and organizations.
sponsored by The Organization
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A USAA design workshop. [Photo: USAA]
Design With a Big ‘D’: Design Thinkers Leading the Way
by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018
Whether it’s slaying piles of paper receipts at tax time or making shopping an adventure, these Dallas area design thinkers are making their marks in their respective industries. The common thread? Dogged persistence. We talk with four who caught the “experiential wave” early.
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by Dave Moore |
Sep 24, 2018
Intuit has embraced design thinking, says Intuit VP of Design James Helm. He talks with Dave Moore about the thinking that precedes formal design and how the company retains designers who may get multiple recruiting calls each week.
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by Dave Moore |
Sep 24, 2018
Don Relyea — who Incorporated a 19-person core design team to BBVA Compass within a couple weeks — says that the addition of designers to global banking firm BBVA is introducing constructive problem-solving to operations across 35 countries.
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![My second year (in teaching high school English), things began looking up. I cracked the code and figured out how to motivate students. I had lessons I could improve upon. And I started getting curious — what could the sciences teach me about how we learn? Most of what I read at that time could be classified as pop psychology — secondhand accounts of “brain science” studies. ...One particular study involved our sense of smell and memory. I had been reading Robert Jutte’s 2004 book “A History of Senses,” and I stumbled upon this interesting remark: “Our sense of smell is most directly linked to memory.” Hmm — smell and memory are linked. I began to think how this could be applied to some of our creative writing assignments... Excerpt from “Seductive Interaction Design,” by Stephen Anderson [Sources: Capital One, Stephen Anderson]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stephen-Anderson_CapitalOne_Garage-360x203.jpg)
by Dave Moore |
Sep 24, 2018
Q+A | Stephen Anderson, head of design at Capital One’s Garage, (literally) wrote the book on “Seductive Interaction Design.” He talks about finding talent and how design thinking is applied to daily life.
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