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Match Group CEO Bernard Kim [Images: Match Group, Kathy Schuh Photography]
The Last Word: How Gaming-Obsessed Match Group CEO Bernard Kim Is ‘Leveling Up’ Dating Apps
by David Seeley | Jul 23, 2024
When Dallas-based Match Group snagged Bernard Kim as its new CEO in 2022, he was president of mobile game maker Zynga, where he was credited with boosting Zynga’s market cap on the way to its $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. Since then, he's been trying to "level up" Match's dating apps by getting users to pay extra for services so they'll "win" in the game of love, according to a new profile in the Wall Street Journal.
by David Seeley |
Jun 5, 2024
As we noted in our top story today, Lee's TXSE Group plans to launch the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), focused on Texas and the Southeast U.S. The group says it will provide "a venue to trade and list public companies and the growing universe of exchange-traded products" as a "fully electronic, national securities exchange." That's caused buzz across the Lone Star State—and especially on Wall Street.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 5, 2024
Watch out, Wall Street—a Dallas-based stock exchange is bucking its way into U.S. equity capital markets. And it's already lined up around $120 million in funding from BlackRock, Citadel Securities, and other investors including "prominent business leaders from around the country."
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by David Seeley |
Apr 23, 2024
From its 17 offices across the U.S., business consulting firm Embark aims to shake up a "tired" $300 billion industry by replacing the reigning "rise-and-grind culture" with a focus on happiness. With an ad in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal and mini-coffins on the way to CFOs nationwide, the firm is looking to kill it—in more ways than one.
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That match may actually be a pitch instead, says the WSJ. [Image: Tero Vesalainen/istockphoto]
The Last Word: How Dating Apps Are Being Used for Business Networking, Not Romance
by David Seeley | Aug 21, 2023
Dating apps can be a great way to find romance. But increasingly, according to the Wall Street Journal, users are finding something else instead: business come-ons from tech recruiters, networkers, children's book authors, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 13, 2023
$2.3 billion in real estate projects are in the pipeline or currently under construction in Fort Worth, said Todd Burnette, Managing Director at JLL, drawing parallels to Austin in the Wall Street Journal.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
Apr 19, 2021
Out of the 49 private businesses that made the list, only two came from Texas—and both are Dallas companies.
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by Michael Wood |
Jul 14, 2020
Associa, The Beck Group, and Topgolf are among the 27 companies on the inaugural list.
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Flyp Nearing 2 Million Downloads of Phone App
by Jewels Clark | Dec 19, 2017
The startup, which established a presence in Denton this year, allows people to use multiple numbers from one smart phone.
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