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Leading tech companies with a stake in North Texas are helping to shape the future with emerging technologies predicted to transform the world in 2023 and beyond. Clockwise from left: Flytrex and Brinker, Toyota and Google Cloud, Waymo, Texas Instruments, Bell, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. [Courtesy photos]
Emerging Trends: Three Futurists Predict The Tech That Comes Next
by Sandra Engelland | Feb 15, 2023
From AI to human longevity to xTech, North Texas experts George Brody of InfoNet of Things and Anurag Jain of Perot Jain, along with Mike Bechtel of Deloitte, predict a range of emerging technologies set to transform the world in 2023 and beyond.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 11, 2022
Levy has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A founding writer at Wired, he's widely considered to be the premier tech journalist in the U.S. He’s covered the digital revolution since the early 1980s, reporting every major trend and profiling its key figures.
Today, as a keynote speaker on the closing day of Dallas Startup Week, he took stock of how we got here—and what's next.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jun 2, 2022
Launched in Palo Alto in 2018, InfStones relocated its HQ to Plano last year. With a goal of bringing the “AWS experience to Web3,” it's landed a new $66 million funding round and says it's nearing unicorn status—a designation for startups valued at $1 billion.
“Our vision is to provide a rugged, easy-to-use Web3 environment to build a more transparent, intelligent world,” CEO Zhenwu Shi says.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Apr 11, 2022
InfoVision says it plans to hire 2,000 additional employees in India by next year, in addition to opening a 300-person development center in Guadalajara, Mexico.
"We believe that our investments in digital will help clients accelerate innovation and reimagine their businesses," Co-Founder and President Sean Yalamanchi said, citing the need to be "future proof at the convergence of technologies."
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DeFy Tickets co-founders Alec Jhangiani, Ramtin Nikzad, and Evan McLaughlin. [Photos, DeFy Tickets; background, istockphoto]
Fort Worth Founders Launch Platform to Tie Concert Tickets to NFTs
by Kevin Cummings | Mar 16, 2022
Led by co-founders of Fort Worth's annual Fortress Festival, DeFy Tickets contracts with event organizers to offer smart concert tickets sold as NFTs. The blockchain-based tickets provide greater security, can prevent scalping, and enable "augmented experiences and engagement" between fans and artists, the co-founders say.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Feb 28, 2022
The blockchain gaming studio's first title is Edenbrawl, a tech fantasy-style online multiplayer battle game. Within the game, players will be able to purchase and trade NFTs tied to things like character skins and weapons skins.
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by David Kirkpatrick |
Jan 18, 2022
The Cooper Institute launched FitnessGram in 1982 as "the first student fitness report card." Today FitnessGram assesses health-related components of fitness for more than 10 million students in over 10,000 U.S. schools. Now Cooper is partnering with Dallas-based GreenLight Credentials to use its blockchain platform to help students and schools alike securely store and share the records.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 4, 2022
Metrospaces, a proptech company powered by Dallas-based Shokworks, launched a beta version of its MetroCrowd platform today. The blockchain-powered tokenization platform is designed to "democratize" the real estate investing process, according to the company.
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Rendering: Shockworks
Metrospaces is Opening a New HQ2 in Dallas
by Alex Edwards | Aug 31, 2021
New York-based MetroSpaces will be co-locating in Deep Ellum with Dallas-based Shokworks, a tech firm that helps companies go digital-first. The partners recently unveiled major initiatives including a blockchain-powered co-living platform and first-class co-living destination in the Dominican Republic for high-end nomad capitalists.
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by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
Jun 2, 2021
Through a purchase agreement with Sparkpool, the largest Ethereum mining pool in the world, Dallas-based Applied Blockchain is rapidly working to scale its crypto-mining operations.
The goal? To be the leading publicly listed pure-play Ethereum/Altcoin miner in the next 6 to 12 months.
The goal? To be the leading publicly listed pure-play Ethereum/Altcoin miner in the next 6 to 12 months.
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by Alex Edwards |
Mar 18, 2021
The nonprofit trade associations have released the Legislator's Toolkit for Blockchain Technology – Texas Edition to boost the adoption of blockchain across the state. It's the first step toward widespread adoption, and a way for legislators to see what resources are available to address the issues blockchain innovators are currently facing.
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by Quincy Preston and Sandra Engelland |
Feb 23, 2021
From ABIA to Zyvex, Dallas-Fort Worth companies are at the forefront of innovations in AI, 5G, quantum computing, genomics, and more.
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[Image: Courtesy Deloitte]
Blockchain—From Promise to Reality
A Local Perspective on Blockchain Potential
by Deloitte | Sep 10, 2020
A Q&A with Deloitte’s Dan Berner and Matt Soderberg.
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sponsored by Deloitte
by Lance Murray |
Oct 4, 2019
The institute is the oldest academic entrepreneurship center in the world, providing essential insights and connections in the world of entrepreneurship, from blockchain to venture investing.
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by Alex Edwards |
Jul 17, 2019
AT&T also this week announced a cloud-related deal with IBM worth billions. The two agreements have different focuses, but are both vital in AT&T's ongoing effort to work with fewer, more strategic suppliers.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 18, 2019
Ripple will make up to a $50 million investment in MoneyGram as the industry moves toward what might be the future of international money transfers.
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