Millions of Dallas police files lost due to poor data management, lax oversight, report says
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,…
Biotech accelerator LaunchBio awarded $2.1 million in federal funding to develop Dallas startups
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…
Black founders from Dallas and Frisco receive a six-figure boost from Google’s startup fund
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…
AT&T debuts first of three ‘connected learning centers’ in Dallas with plans to open 20 nationwide
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…
Chicago takes out Dallas Morning News ad to bait businesses after new Texas abortion, voting laws
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…