Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Texas adds 13,700 jobs in October; DFW area sees workforce, unemployment drop

Texas’s economy added an estimated 13,700 nonfarm jobs in October, indicating a less than 1 percent increase from September, according to the latest Texas Workforce Commission report. Nonfarm jobs increased by 207,500 statewide, or 1.7 percent year-on-year, since October 2015. Texas’s unemployment rate decreased slightly from 4.8 percent in September to 4.7 percent in October. By […]

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Answering Featured Snippets Timely, Using Sentence Compression on News

A couple of Augusts ago, I went to a Semantic Business and Technology conference where the head of Yahoo’s Knowledge Graph, Nicolas Torzec, discussed how updates took place to the knowledge graph when some earth-shaking event took place. He told us that they were manually editing information in that knowledge graph. Upon hearing that, I […]

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5 things to know about Southlake’s second hotel, Cambria

Southlake’s second hotel, Cambria Hotel & Suites Southlake DFW North, will open Saturday at 2104 E. SH 114, Southlake. General Manager Sam Cannon said he is excited to introduce the Southlake community to the Cambria brand. “I am excited about Cambria Southlake because we are unique,” he said. “It’s not just the hotel itself that […]

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

No Central Market coming to Grapevine

Central Market officials today announced that while two new Dallas stores will open, the former Grapevine Sun Fresh Market location will likely not open as an H-E-B or Central Market. H-E-B/Central Market in September purchased six Sun Fresh Market stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including one on William D. Tate Avenue in Grapevine. The […]

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Monday, November 28, 2016

Ranking Events in Google Search Results

This summer, Google was granted a patent that describes how the search engine might rank events based upon data that might indicate the popularity of those events, without relying on things such as the number of links pointed to pages about those events. The patent involves ranking events that occur in physical locations. Examples of […]

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Why The Texas Department of Transportation’s new campaign aims to make Texas roads safer

A recent study by CarInsuranceComparison.com tied Texas and Louisiana as having the worst drivers in the country. Using data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the car insurance group analyzed crashes in five categories: fatalities per 100 million miles traveled, failure to obey traffic signals or wear seat belts, drunken driving, speeding and careless driving. […]

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Local places to shop in Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 26

Black Friday is known for drawing crowds of eager shoppers to big-box stores, but smaller shops have Small Business Saturday the following day to promote the idea of supporting local retailers and keeping holiday spending in the community. Small Business Saturday takes place the Saturday after Thanksgiving and was started by American Express Co. in 2010 to […]

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