Stratospheric balloon company Urban Sky has closed a $9.75 million Series A round to scale its Earth imaging operations and expand its data products. The 14-person startup has mostly been conducting tasking…
Texas Monthly – Texans Worship Brands, but We Should Celebrate Our Native Flora and Fauna Too
Where can you buy some Texas?I found myself asking that question recently, as I was scrolling through gardening content on social media and stumbled onto claims that a couple of seed packets…
Tech Crunch – Live commerce startup TalkShopLive launches new app for sellers to broadcast on mobile
Live commerce platform TalkShopLive announced today its new Studio app for creators and brands, bringing an array of management and broadcast tools to mobile, including the ability to virtually collaborate with four…
Texas Monthly – How Two Texas Bookstores Are Leading the Fight Against Book Bans
When I published The Fight for Midnight, my debut young adult novel, this summer, the first two events I held to promote the book were at BookPeople, the venerable downtown Austin independent…
Texas Monthly – The Big Map of Texas Indie Bookstores
The book news out of Texas isn’t all about bans, lawsuits, and school board battles. We noticed something, out in the field: our state today has more independently owned bookstores than we’ve…
Texas Monthly – Ken Burns’s ‘The American Buffalo’ Isn’t Really About Bison
This wasn’t the first time I doubted Ken Burns could make a subject interesting. The first time was when a friend urged me to watch the documentarian’s 1994 series Baseball. Though I…
Texas Monthly – We Thought Amazon Killed Local Bookstores. We Were So Wrong.
Thompson’s Bookstore, one of the most distinctive small businesses in downtown Fort Worth, is not a bookstore. Its owners, who opened up shop eight years ago in an atmospheric old building, borrowed…
Texas Monthly – I Think a Crime Bookstore Is the Best in Texas, So Stab Me
For all of the foreboding tales within, Houston’s Murder by The Book feels soft and inviting, with massive windows up front and plenty of places inside to kick back and dig into…
KTSM News – Heavy police presence seen at Speedway in Upper Valley
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Heavy law enforcement presence was seen at a Speedway in El Paso’s Upper Valley early Monday morning, Oct. 16. El Paso Police and Texas DPS were seen…
Tech Crunch – Creative Force, now with $8.9M, gives e-commerce workflows an AI treatment
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