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Dallas' Alto Hits 1 Million Mark in U.S. Rideshares » Dallas Innovates
As the tech boom began declining earlier this year, Coleman says Alto took "adaptive and agile" steps, "making cutbacks early on." In a statement, he added that the costs to be headquartered in Dallas "allows his company to stay ambitious and aggressive, and acquire top-tier talent."
Any of y'all been to Triumph's Espresso and Whiskey in their building at 141 Manufacturing Street?
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram journalists go on strike, citing unfair labor practices by parent company | Fort Worth Report
McClatchy hasn't budged. Here's a review of the dispute from NewsGuild, the GoFundMe and Happy Hour at Tulip's on Friday.
fortworthreport.org“What we and other McClatchy unionized papers have seen repeatedly is that McClatchy comes to the table and does not move at all,” Johnson said. “So we’ll submit a proposal and they’ll send us back their initial proposal, which sometimes is existing company policy, and then they’ll do that again and again and again.”
In emails sent to Star-Telegram staff and obtained by the Fort Worth Report, Coffman wrote that the company is recruiting journalists to provide full coverage of local news
McClatchy is also suspending striking workers’ healthcare and other benefits at the end of the month, according to an email obtained by the Fort Worth Report from McClatchy vice president of people Chris Klyse.
Affluent Dallas suburb leads list of lavish holiday spending budgets in U.S. - CultureMap Dallas
culturemap.comAs the most wonderful time of the year approaches, holiday shopping budgets are in the spotlight, and a study from WalletHub lists Flower Mound as one of the top cities where Santa doesn't need a whole lot of help.
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Businesses Hope to Cut Cyber Turnover by Encouraging Volunteer Work - WSJ
Unpaid work at nonprofits speaks to a sense of mission core to cyber professionals, corporate managers say.
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A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon
righto.comIn modern CPUs, bugs can often be fixed through a microcode patch that updates the CPU during boot.1 However, prior to the Pentium Pro (1995), microprocessors could only be fixed through a change to the design that fixed the silicon. This became a big problem for Intel with the famous Pentium floating-point division bug. The chip turned out to have a bug that resulted in rare but serious errors when dividing. Intel recalled the defective processors in 1994 and replaced them, at a cost of $475 million.