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How a Deal Gets Done: Dallas-Fort Worth Works Hard to Attract Major Companies

by | Nov 1, 2019
By making contact and staying engaged, Chamber and economic development officials lure important relocations to North Texas.
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Follow the Money: Eyevance Raises $30M, Sanara MedTech Gets $10M, Tyler Technologies Makes Acquisition
by | Oct 31, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity, you'll also find news from teleCalm, Crestline Investors, Powerhouse, Trend Micro, and more.
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DI People: Boeing Global Services, Six Flags Entertainment, Michaels Make CEO Announcements
by | Oct 29, 2019
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves by Dallas-Fort Worth companies and organizations, you’ll also find news from Critical Start, OrderMyGear, EarthXFilm, Sally Beauty Holdings, Hill+Knowlton, and KidKraft.
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Lyle Commits $10M for SMU Engineering School’s Strategic Vision
by | Oct 25, 2019
In what SMU calls a "bold plan," the engineering school’s future combines innovation, agility, and swift responses to shifts in technological capabilities with enduring institutional support.
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Beyond Smart Cities: Dallas Ranks High in Global Cities’ AI Readiness Index

by | Oct 11, 2019
Dallas is third in the nation among large cities that rank for urban AI resilience and readiness in the rise of the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution,' according to The Oliver Wyman Forum.
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Cloud Commerce Provider Kibo Acquiring AI-Powered Monetate Platform
by | Oct 10, 2019
Dallas-headquartered Kibo plans to invest heavily in personalization capabilities to stay ahead of its competitors.
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How Award-Winning Author Elizabeth Dyer Made a Name for Herself—the Digital Way
by | Sep 27, 2019
Dallas' Elizabeth Dyer became a winner of the "highest award of distinction for romance fiction" for a novel she published through Amazon's self-publishing system. Now, she's coming out with a new book.

What made the attorney become an author? It was a 'bucket list' item.
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Package Delivery Startup Fetch Raises $10.5M in Series A Funding

by | Sep 26, 2019
Fetch operates local warehouses, where it accepts all deliveries then provides scheduled, door-to-door service directly to apartment residents. The funding backs its national expansion. 
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Burns & McDonnell Meets Growth Needs With Fort Worth Office Expansion
by | Sep 24, 2019
The 100-percent employee-owned engineering, architecture, and construction firm said it has grown by 20 percent in North Texas this year.
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Cruise for Soapbox Supremacy When the Red Bull Race Comes to Dallas
by | Sep 20, 2019
The Red Bull Soapbox Race will cruise into Dallas-Fort Worth next week (for the first time since 2012). Gearheads have been planning, plotting, and building their gravity-powered creations for months.

The more outrageous, the better.
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New Omnitracs Exec Takes the Wheel of its Data, AI, and Machine Learning Operations
by | Sep 19, 2019
Ashim Bose has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and says that digital transformation is rapidly reshaping the transportation industry.
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Look Inside: Common Desk Moves its Headquarters to West End’s Innovation District

Common Desk announced late last year that it was opening its sixth location at Factory SixO3. Now, it's the coworking company's new headquarters, where it's moved with 49 employees.
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Take a Joyage: New App Addresses the Mental Well-Being of Employees
by | Sep 18, 2019
Through a partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, ACAP HealthWorks is offering nine video lessons designed for people struggling with mental health and for the people who are helping them.
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Open Access: Hedera Hashgraph’s Blockchain Alternative Network Now Available to the Public
by | Sep 17, 2019
Hedera knows that for its distributed ledger technology platform to become mainstream, it has to be easy to integrate. Local companies Zabo and Hashing Systems—along with 24 others—are on board to help with that.
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Hypergiant’s Algae-Based Carbon Capture Solution Could Be ‘400 Times More Effective Than Trees’
by | Sep 17, 2019
The device, called the Eos Bioreactor, is one of the company’s initial efforts focused on fixing the planet’s environment problems. It captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere.
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