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How Dallas Cowboys’ Lewis Neal Wants Companies To Tackle Data Security

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This one may be familiar: Wide receiver and cryptographer walk into a bar and … set the data security landscape on its ear. Who knows blocking and tackling better than Lewis Neal, defensive end of the Dallas Cowboys ? Neal himself had been hacked while in college and became interested in data security and technology.

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Greyhound Drives Omnichannel Security With AI, Advanced Learning Tools

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Fraud could cost the market more than $25 billion this year, and approximately 20 percent of attempted travel-related transactions are confirmed to be fraudulent. Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing.

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TAB Bank Expands With $46M Acquisition Deal For BAMFi’s Capital Division 

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As part of the acquisition, BAM’s office in Dallas, Texas will be retained by TAB Bank , including both operations and staff. BAMFi , a software provider for the secured lending space, will still own its proprietary solution FactorCloud. It will now focus solely on its cloud-based secured lending software solution.

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Uber Of X: Bannerman, Uber of Security Guards

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Safety may come first, but the security guard industry hasn’t really been updated in decades. As an “Uber of X” company, San Francisco–based Bannerman pairs security guards with businesses in high-rise buildings seeking protection. Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. Absolutely.

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Homie Unlocks $23M In Funding To Expand Its Homebuyer Program

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Fresh off a new round of Series B equity funding that secured $23 million, the company intends to expand into three new markets this March, including in Las Vegas. Homie utilizes real estate agents, but incentivizes customers to hire them via a flat rate of $1,500 instead of the usual commission-based industry model.

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Using Digital To Change How Healthcare Research Gets Done

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It’s secure, compliant and offers such features as transcription. I think it's going to be difficult for clients to go back to paying $100,000 to convene doctors from around the world in a hotel in Dallas for some purpose when they can do it all digitally at a greatly reduced cost,” Hill said. Big Growth and $100M+ in New Funding.

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US Senators Propose New Office To Combat Tech Theft

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The bill, which aims to create an Office of Critical Technologies and Security, was a bipartisan effort by U.S. With the bill, the senators are aiming to organize an inter-agency strategy to combat threats of a high-tech nature to national security by China , as well as other foreign actors, through the office.