UPDATED at 10 p.m. with more details from the audit. Poor policies, processes, planning and oversight led to a Dallas IT employee deleting more than 8 million police department files, a city review released Thursday has found. About 4.1 million photos, videos, audio, case notes and other items — or […]
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A project with backing from some of Dallas’s most prominent philanthropic and business leaders will receive an additional funding boost from the federal government. LaunchBio, a startup accelerator at the new Pegasus Park development near Dallas’s medical district, was named an awardee of the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s annual Build […]
Three North Texas companies are getting a six-figure boost from a Google fund designed to aid Black-founded startups. Google set up the $10 million initiative to address the access to capital problem that many Black founders encounter when they launch businesses. D-FW companies receiving $100,000 each from the fund are: […]
AT&T’s effort to address the digital divide is underway with Thursday’s opening of a downtown Dallas education center aimed at assisting mostly low-income families left behind by gaps in affordable, reliable internet availability. The so-called “connected learning centers” are part of a $2 billion commitment by AT&T to bridge inequities […]
Chicago is taking aim at Texas’ new social policies with a full-page ad in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News, urging companies uncomfortable with the state’s recently enacted abortion and voting laws to head to the windy city. World Business Chicago, the city’s public-private economic development arm, purchased the print ad, which […]