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Follow the Money: Safe Harbor Marinas Gets $41M, Mooala Nets $8.3M; Improving Acquires Code Authority

by | Nov 7, 2019
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving North Texas businesses, you’ll also find news from Supply, Double Eagle Capital, RealPage, Madelinetosh, Bombardier, Vivify Health, Principal Solar, Zona Energy, ClubCorp, and Del Frisco’s.
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DI People: Koddi, Raytheon, Southwest Airlines, and Pier 1 Make Executive Announcements
by | Nov 5, 2019
In this weekly roundup of leadership and executive moves and honors by businesses and organizations in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Primoris Services, Orthofix Medical, Uptown Dallas Inc., AT&T Inc., and Dallas Arboretum.
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Ex-Infusionsoft, Scaling Point Exec Manages Extensive DFW Software Company List
by | Nov 1, 2019
From major companies like Sabre to startups such as Kanarys, Greg Head is working to keep track of DFW's ever-expanding list of software companies.
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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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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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Discovery: Agrilife Expansion Focuses on Food and Water, UTA Gets a $2.3M Grant for Composites
by | Oct 24, 2019
In this weekly roundup of research and development activity in North Texas, you’ll also find out why an important computing society recognized a UNT associate dean for her scientific contributions.
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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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$1M Challenge Grant Kicks Off Campaign for I-35E Deck Park in Southern Dallas

by | Sep 30, 2019
On a stretch of I-35E adjacent to the Dallas Zoo, the deck park is intended to transform Southern Dallas and reunify the Oak Cliff community that was split more than 50 years ago when the interstate was constructed.
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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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Corgan and TMGcore Team Up to Downsize Data Centers
by | Sep 26, 2019
The companies will unveil conceptual designs for the new data centers—intended to be a tenth of the traditional sizing—in November to show off the "groundbreaking technology."
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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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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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Follow the Money: Tailwater Capital Commits $150M, Morningstar Raises $16M, Elbit Makes Acquisition
by | Sep 19, 2019
In this weekly roundup of investment, merger, and acquisition activity involving North Texas businesses, you’ll also find news from Body Machine Fitness, Align Capital Partners, RKD Group, BenefitMall, All Commercial Floors, Holland Marble Group, Crossplane Capital, and Elite FPS.
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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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