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Site Selection Ranks Dallas Metro 2nd for New and Expanded Corporate Projects

by | Mar 22, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington was recognized for its number of new and expanded company facilities projects in 2018.
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Dallas VideoFest’s AltFiction Winners and Next Season’s $10K Grant
by | Mar 21, 2019
VideoFest calls itself the oldest and largest video festival in the U.S. Its AltFiction Fest celebrates filmmakers who create movies, television shows, and web content. 
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Hey, Entrepreneurs: Come Party on the Plaza With WFAA for Dallas Startup Week
by | Mar 21, 2019
Join Dallas-Forth Worth innovators this Saturday at 7 a.m. for the Party on the Plaza at Victory Park. Attendees will get to try products from entrepreneurs for free, demonstrate their support for Startup Week, and be on live TV.
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A rendering of the Hyperloop One station shown in a slide presentation by Steven Duong earlier this month.
Transit in a Tube: Feds Back Hyperloop One at SXSW
by | Mar 21, 2019
A federal council from the U.S. Department of Transportation aims to eliminate roadblocks to innovative transit like the Virgin Hyperloop One, self-driving vehicles, and high-speed railways.
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World-Famous Culinary Conference is Coming to the Dallas Arboretum This Saturday

by | Mar 20, 2019
The Chef's Garden's Roots on the Road conference, premiering for the first time outside of Ohio, is the last day of this year's Dallas Arboretum Food & Wine Festival. The all-day event will feature a farmer's market, sustainability discussion, panel with founder Farmer Lee Jones, and a farm-to-table dinner.
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Learner Mobile is Now Bringing Employee Training to Smartphones
by | Mar 20, 2019
Dallas-based Learner Mobile has launched a platform designed to replace high-cost learning management systems that will allow employers to easily create training content accessible at any time via a mobile device.
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JLL to Acquire Dallas Real Estate Brokerage HFF in $2B Deal
by | Mar 19, 2019
With the acquisition, JLL will focus on a substantial multiyear investment plan, driving a digital DNA across the entire organization, and capitalizing on the proptech aspects exemplified by JLL Spark.
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Dallas-Founded Dating App, Vouch, Brings on a New Female CEO
by | Mar 18, 2019
Last year, Bachelor alum Sean Lowe announced he was launching a dating app where your friends could swipe for you. Now, Lowe and his team have revamped the technology and brought on a strong, local female voice to grow the platform: Christiana Yebra.
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Follow the Money: Pieces Technologies Gets $5M, CallBox Seeks $15M, TPG Makes Acquisition

by | Mar 14, 2019
You’ll also find news about Hedera Hashgraph, Rimrock Energy Partners, TPG Capital, Copart, Anchor Partners, ThermiGen, Van Alstyne Financial, and Motion Envelope in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity affecting companies and organizations in North Texas.
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SMU Seeking Applicants for New Online Master’s in Cybersecurity
by | Mar 13, 2019
The program, which launches in 2020, will offer 10 courses for 30 credit hours, and can be completed in less than two years.
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Innovator Q+A: Dmitri Love on Founding Bundil, the Evolution of Cryptocurrency, and Swimming with the Sharks
by | Mar 13, 2019
The UI/UX Developer who caught the attention of a Shark Tank investor calls his micro-investment platform a fun, simple, and beautiful way to help younger people invest and save their money.
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Dallas-based Hedera Hashgraph rasies $100 million to further develop public distributed dedger Network and Dapp Ecosystem.
Hedera Hashgraph Grants Nearly $700M in ‘hbars’ to Employees, Founders, Others
by | Mar 12, 2019
The grants total $696,150,671 in the cryptocurrency and provide for the recipient to receive coins in the future, typically over a period of four years.
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Texas Central High-Speed Rail Named One of World’s Top Infrastructure Projects

by | Mar 11, 2019
The Dallas-based private effort to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston was recognized in a report from CG/LA Infrastructure.
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Chicks on Vic: Female Business Owners Team Up on Victory Avenue
by | Mar 8, 2019
The "Chicks on Vic"—a group of women who own businesses on Victory Avenue in Dallas—have teamed up to support one another in their businesses.
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Education: Amazon’s Future Engineer Program, AECOM’s UTA Hypermobility Class, SMU’s New Cybersecurity Master’s Degree
From higher education projects (TWU, DCCCD) to K-12 initiatives (Dallas County, Trinity Christian Academy), here's your briefing on what's going on in education in North Texas.
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