Dallas Innovates

Thinking Outside the Blockchain Box: SMU Tackles Sustainability with High Tech Solutions

by | Feb 27, 2019
SMU's Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity is lowering the entry barrier to blockchain and finding high-tech solutions to poverty, environmental issues, homelessness, and roadblocks in healthcare—and it's just getting started.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 19
by | Feb 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Armor Defense's system to detect and extract malicious instructions on a virtual machine • American Airline's departure sequencing system that includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer • IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems of a computer system • SanDisk Technologies' flash card end of life prediction based on memory wear • an unassigned patent for a pull tab simulating a cannabis leaf cutout
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Startup Couples: rewardStyle’s Amber & Baxter Box on Balance and Finding Success—Together
by | Feb 26, 2019
North Texas' entrepreneurial power couples, this time the founders of rewardStyle, talk about life, balance, and finding success in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Photo Recap: Innovate(her) Conference Sparks Innovative Thinking in Middle School Girls
by | Feb 25, 2019
Capital One teamed up with the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to empower students during National Engineering Week.
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Dallas Invents: 104 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 12

by | Feb 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Groupchatter's wireless group alerting or messaging • Match Group's profile matching • Toyota's methods for adjusting vehicle parameters according to merging lanes • Verizon and Redbox's system for a media-on-demand-based programming channel • TXU Energy's analyzed energy usage and home automation • An unassigned patent for an alarm that could prevent a passenger from being left in a vehicle
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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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Dallas Startup With the ‘World’s First Transparent Marketplace’ Helps Businesses Cut Costs
by | Feb 14, 2019
NickelCommerce hopes to save food and beverage businesses money with low-priced cost-tracking and a simple inventory system. Now, it's ramping up growth and looking for some outside funding.
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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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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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Dallas Invents: 125 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 29
by | Feb 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Sensogram Technologies’ finger tip scanner • Phazr’s 5G radio system • Rain Bird’s volumetric budget-based irrigation control • Samsung’s video editing using contextual data and content discovery using clusters • V-Moda’s method of identifying authentic vs. counterfeit products
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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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Diversity Fuels North Texas Startup Funding

by | Jan 30, 2019
"We’re on to a second wave of what our innovation ecosystem looks like," says Proximity to Power's Clarisa Lindenmeyer.
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Dallas Invents: 108 Patents Granted for Week of Jan. 22
by | Jan 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Textron Innovations' apparatus for reconfiguring flight control of an aircraft during a failure while the aircraft is flying • USAA's display screen with a financial workbench graphic user interface • Verizon's device for increased bandwidth • TI's feedforward cancellation of power supply noise • Monument Peak Ventures' system for locating nearby picture hotspots
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Don Morphy Becomes First Dallas Menswear Label to Win Rising Star Award
by | Jan 29, 2019
Don Morphy founder Daniel Mofor was recognized as this year's Rising Star in menswear at the 22nd Annual Fashion Group International awards. Tommy Hilfiger was among the global fashion icons at the presentation in New York City.
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Feast Your Eyes on This: Dallas’ Unicorn-Themed Dessert Bar
by | Jan 28, 2019
The Magical Dessert Bar, located in Deep Ellum, is being called the first-of-its-kind in the U.S by its entrepreneurial founders. The first month has seen so much success, the shop already has a Houston branch in the works.
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