| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.07.2025 | Bonsai Secures $1.8M: Reshaping Marketing Intelligence | Bonsai, a Chicago-based firm, secured $1.8 million in investment. The funding fuels its first-party marketing intelligence platform. This platform automates profitable growth for brands. It integrates diverse marketing data, offering accura... |
| 18.07.2025 | Bonsai: $1.8 Million Raised For First-Party Marketing Intelligence Platform | Bonsai, a marketing intelligence platform, has raised $1.8 million in funding to enhance its go-to-market strategies and further develop its services. Investors include Mairs & Power Venture Capital, TAWANI Ventures, Bridge Venture Fund... |
| 18.07.2025 | Bonsai Raises $1.8 M to Launch First‑Party Marketing Intelligence Platform | Bonsai, the first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth, today announced an investment of $1.8 million to accelerate go-to-market efforts and further development of the company’s platform. The investment was... |
| 17.07.2025 | Bonsai Receives $1.8M Investment | Bonsai, a Chicago, IL-based provider of a first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth, received an investment of $1.8M.
The investment was made by was made by Mairs and Power Venture Capital, TAWANI Ventures... |
| 09.07.2024 | Travel + Leisure Announces 2024 World's Best Awards Unveiling Top Destinations, Hotels, Airlines and More | Florence, Maldives, Singapore Airlines, Istanbul Airport, Among Top Winners
San Miguel de Allende Reclaims Top Ranking as World's Best City
NEW YORK, July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Travel + Leisure reveals the winners of its highly anticipate... |
| 13.03.2024 | Travel | Amid a cactus landscape, these Arizona wellness resorts melt away life’s prickles | Marlise Kast-Myers | Tribune News Service
Before marrying my husband Benjamin, I had a habit of setting New Year’s resolutions of lofty goals-turned-faded letdowns. From publishing books to running marathons, those big dreams led to late ni... |
| 12.03.2024 | Houston health tech company announces $10M in fresh funding to bolster customer care | Roshal Health, a Katy-based provider of ultrasound and echocardiogram services for health care facilities, has secured $10 million in structured equity financing.
New York City-based investment firm Catalio Capital Management led the financ... |
| 12.03.2024 | Texas-based 'hop-on' jet service offers exclusive eclipse flight flown by NASA pilot | With Texas set to be the prime location for the Great North American Solar Eclipse, airlines are lining up to offer the best vantage point and that includes JSX: The private carrier is offering a once-in-a-lifetime in-flight experience to 1... |
| 12.01.2024 | Driverless semi-truck tech to launch between Houston and Dallas later this year | Kodiak Robotics is scaling up its driverless semi truck, which will initially carry cargo on a Houston-to-Dallas route that’s set to formally launch this year.
The most recent version of Kodiak’s truck debuted in Las Vegas at the recent 202... |
| 12.01.2024 | Houston innovation leader named to new role to drive strategy, programming | A longtime Houston innovation leader has added a new title to his role at Rice University.
Brad Burke, who has served as executive director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship for 20 years, has been named associate vice... |
| 12.01.2024 | Freshly funded startups, NASA-backed engine testing top this week's top Houston innovation stories | Editor's note:Welcome back for another roundup of top Houston innovation news from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included recent startup funding rounds, two new hires, and more.
These 9 Houst... |
| 10.01.2024 | NASA postpones historic crew landing until 2026 | Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday.
The space agency had planned to send four astronauts around th... |
| 10.01.2024 | PE firm acquires Houston renewables fuels infrastructure company | Fresh off its $3 billion fund closure, a Houston private equity firm has made its latest acquisition.
Ara Partners announced this week that it has acquired a majority interest in Houston-based USD Clean Fuels, a developer of logistics infra... |
| 10.01.2024 | 10 Houston scientists named to fellowship for turning research into businesses | Rice University has announced its latest cohort of fellows who aim to translate research into real-world startups.
The 2024 cohort of Rice Innovation Fellows is the third of its kind since the university's Office of Innovation and The Liu I... |
| 09.01.2024 | Houston rocket tech company partners with NASA on critical testing | A Houston-headquartered space tech company that's working on technology to enable hypersonic travel has announced a partnership with NASA to test its tech.
Venus Aerospace has partnered with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville... |
| 09.01.2024 | How this Houston innovator plans on revolutionizing AI on a global scale | It’s taken people some time, but most of society is finally doing a collective 180-degree flip on its once guarded view of artificial intelligence in favor of being open to the idea that it can help humankind in a myriad of positive ways.
T... |
| 09.01.2024 | Houston innovator: Why we need to protect the individual inventor | In 2011, Congress passed The America Invents Act, which created an administrative pathway for challenging the validity of patents. This allowed an opportunity to bypass our courts and get non-judges to determine whether an already issued pa... |
| 08.01.2024 | Houston med device company names new CEO | Houston-based medical device company BiVACOR has brought aboard a new CEO.
Jim Dillon, a longtime executive in the medical device sector, has been hired to lead BiVACOR and join its board of directors. Dillon succeeds former heart surgeon D... |
| 05.01.2024 | Chicago life science innovation firm names Houston leader | After announcing its expansion into Houston last summer and opening its office in a new Texas Medical Center building, Portal Innovations has named its Houston leader.
Portal Innovations announced that Monique Knighten as an executive direc... |
| 05.01.2024 | Top funding rounds, events not to miss, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:It's officially the new year, and the end of the first week of 2024 — it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included events not to miss this... |
| 04.01.2024 | Houston small biz organization expands strategic partnerships | In alliance with their mission of supporting Houston small businesses the Small Business Administration Houston District Office has expanded its partnerships.
The Houston SBA has joined forces with various organizations across a 32-county f... |
| 03.01.2024 | 5+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events for January | Ring in the new year with fellow Houston innovators at everything from networking meetups to startup showcases.
Here's a roundup of events you won't want to miss out on so mark your calendars and register accordingly.
Note: This post may be... |
| 02.01.2024 | Houston expert: Analyzing the impact of generative AI on research | Researchers have to write extremely specific papers that require higher-order thinking — will an intuitive AI program like OpenAI’s ChatGPT be able to imitate the vocabulary, grammar and most importantly, content, that a scientist or resear... |
| 02.01.2024 | Houston sustainability startup secures million-dollar prize after global competition | A Houston sustainability startup has secured a major win on a global scale.
Revterra, which produces novel batteries made from recycled steel, has been awarded a million-dollar piloting opportunity by ADNOC following a global competition.
T... |
| 29.12.2023 | Raising the roof: These were the top 5 investment rounds raised by Houston startups in 2023 | Editor's note: As 2023 comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. When it came to the money raised in Houston, these five startups raised the most, according to reporting done by Innovat... |
| 28.12.2023 | Texas company lines up hundreds electric-hybrid planes for takeoff | Hop-on jet service JSX is soaring into a more eco-friendly future with plans to acquire more than 300 hybrid-electric airplanes.
The Dallas-based air carrier revealed in a release that they'll add up to 332 small hybrid planes in 2028, allo... |
| 28.12.2023 | Houston HR tech platform plans to grow team, expand internationally with recent $21M raise | With a recent $21 million series B funding round set to fuel more growth and expand an impressive client roster, Kahuna Workforce Solutions is riding a big wave into 2024.
CEO Jai Shah tells InnovationMap that the Houston skills management ... |
| 28.12.2023 | Money moves: Most-read Houston innovation grant and gift news of 2023 | Editor's note: As the year comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. Money means a lot to startups and other innovative entities, and while startups are usually scouting venture capital... |
| 26.12.2023 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries recently making headlines in Houston across biotech and medical device.
Moji Karimi, co-founder and CEO of ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Startup secures $2.5M, SPAC deal close, and more trending Houston innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included a recently closed funding round for an energy tech startu... |
| 20.12.2023 | Houston biotech company expands as a network of startups with energy transition solutions | A lot has changed since Moji Karimi co-founded his biotech company Cemvita with his sister Tara in 2017. In fact, a lot has changed just in 2023 — for Cemvita, for the energy transition, and for world as a whole.
In the past year, Cemvita h... |
| 19.12.2023 | Top stories: Houston's most-read health tech news of 2023 | Editor's note: As the year comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. In the health tech category on InnovationMap, top stories included startups relocating to Houston to further advance... |
| 19.12.2023 | Houston medical device company with long-lasting artificial heart reaches FDA milestone | A Houston company with a breakthrough heart health tech has received a green light from the FDA.
BiVACOR, a Houston-headquartered medical device company, has received FDA approval for its Total Artificial Heart (BTAH) IDE first-in-human ear... |
| 19.12.2023 | Heart Aerospace and US charter carrier JSX sign LOI for up to 100 ES-30 airplanes | Heart Aerospace and US charter carrier JSX sign LOI for up to 100 ES-30 airplanes
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Swedish hybrid-electric airplane maker Heart Aerospace and US charter carrier JSX have signed a Letter of Inte... |
| 18.12.2023 | Houston nonprofit accelerator receives grant funding to advance bioindustrial startups | A Houston-based nonprofit accelerator that works with early-stage synthetic biology startups has secured nearly $750,000 to support its mission.
First Bight Ventures' accelerator, BioWell, secured $741,925 of the $53 million doled out as a ... |
| 15.12.2023 | Startup-sourced gift ideas, Houston Spaceport's newest facility opens, and more trending innovation news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included Axiom Space opening its new HQ, gift ideas from Houston s... |
| 15.12.2023 | Feature focused: 5 most-read Houston lifestyle innovation stories of the year | Editor's note: As the year comes to a close, InnovationMap is looking back at the year's top stories in Houston innovation. In the lifestyle category on InnovationMap, top stories included features on Houston startups with consumer-facing a... |
| 15.12.2023 | Houston small biz services co. secures $30M in financing from Austin firm | Missouri City-based Exectras, a provider of services for small and midsize businesses, has secured debt financing of up to $30 million from Austin-based investment manager Tacora Capital.
Exectras says the money will go toward beefing up it... |
| 14.12.2023 | Houston startup focused on cultivating the future workforce of the energy industry raises $2.5M seed funding | With $2.5 million in fresh funding, Digital Wildcatters is on its way to keep empowering the evolving energy workforce.
Digital Wildcatters, a Houston company that's providing a community for the next generation of energy professionals, has... |
| 13.12.2023 | UH, Rice join other Texas universities in new ranking of best schools for future leaders | Two Houston schools just scored spots on a new list recognizing universities that are fostering future leaders.
TIME Magazine revealed its inaugural “Best Colleges For Future Leaders,” and the University of Houston and Rice University were ... |
| 12.12.2023 | Proposed Texas high-speed Houston-Dallas rail lands $500K in federal funds | Amtrak and its partners will receive more than $2.1 billion in a federal program to improve existing routes and expand Amtrak service across the U.S.
That includes $500,000 from the Federal Railroad Administration awarded to the long-in-the... |
| 11.12.2023 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries recently making headlines in Houston across energy, health care, and more.
Natara Branch, CEO of Houston Ex... |
| 11.12.2023 | Customizable commercial condo concept expands to The Woodlands | An Austin-based company that provides ownable multi-use space is expanding in the Houston area.
XSpace has announced that it will break ground next year in The Woodlands and open near the intersection of Six Pines Drive and Lake Woodlands D... |
| 11.12.2023 | Houston AI company raises $35M, plans for Japanese IPO | A Houston tech startup with an artificial intelligence technology has announced it's raised two rounds of funding as it plans to continue developing its product and IPO in Japan.
Allganize recently closed a $20 million series B round of fun... |
| 08.12.2023 | 2023 startup gift guide: Shop local from these Houston innovators | It's giving season, and you need not look any further than Houston's startup and innovation community for some gift ideas.
This year's Houston startup gift guide includes experiences, sustainable shopping, and more.
Need some more ideas? Br... |
| 08.12.2023 | Texas charges up top-10 rank in states dealing with the most debt, per report | It's not too late to rein in that holiday spending, Texas. A new financial report has revealed Texas is the No. 9 state with the highest debt levels in the country.
The report by personal finance website CreditDonkey examined each state's a... |
| 24.10.2023 | Houston expert: How early tech exposure can prepare the future workforce | In our ever-evolving digital landscape, there's no better time to embrace technology than now. This is evident by a fascinating prediction from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: a whopping 100,000 tech-related jobs are projected in the n... |
| 24.10.2023 | Rice University secures NSF support to look into Houston flooding | Houston will be the setting of a new three-year National Science Foundation-funded study that focuses on a phenomenon the city is quite familiar with: flooding.
Conducted by Rice University, the study will consider how "design strategi... |
| 16.10.2023 | Here's what Houston startups snagged fresh funding last quarter | With Houston's business and innovation community firmly in its final leg of 2023, it's time to look back on funding from the previous quarter.
While last quarter revealed a decline in VC funding in line with the rest of the country, per Pit... |
| 28.09.2023 | Houston-based VC secures oversubscribed $160M fund for early-stage startups | A Houston venture capital firm has announce big news of its latest fund.
Mercury, founded in 2005 to invest in startups not based in major tech hubs on either coast, closed its latest fund, Mercury Fund V, at an oversubscribed amount of $16... |
| 19.09.2023 | 6 ways Houston startups and small businesses can integrate AI, machine learning | In today's fast-paced and technologically driven world, artificial intelligence and machine learning have emerged as transformative technologies that hold immense potential for startups and small businesses. While AI was once perceived as t... |
| 11.09.2023 | Houston VR training startup wins $90M contract with Air Force, Space Force | HTX Labs has won a three-year, $90 million contract to provide immersive training capabilities for the Air Force and Space Force.
Under the new contract, which is set to end in September 2026, HTX Labs will supply immersive training technol... |
| 08.09.2023 | Houston innovation events, cell lab at UH opens, and more trending news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the latest roundup of can't miss events, a unique new lab at ... |
| 01.09.2023 | Houston AI startup raises $1.5M seed round of funding | A Houston startup that's on a mission to transform and expedite data processing for its industrial clients has raised seed funding.
Industrial Data Labs announced this week that it's closed a $1.5 million seed round of funding. The company ... |
| 28.08.2023 | Houston caught slacking in Forbes study on best cities for remote workers | With many companies encouraging — or commanding — that remote workers return to the office in 2023, more and more Americans are seeking employment opportunities that will give them the freedom to work from elsewhere.
Houston is (remotely) c... |
| 24.08.2023 | Houston robotics startup secures $2.1M contract extension with engineering tech co. | A Houston startup has just secured an extended contract with a major customer.
Webster-based Nauticus Robotics, a maker of autonomous oceangoing robots, has bulked up its current contract with Reston, Virginia-based Leidos in a $2.1 million... |
| 17.08.2023 | Greentown Labs names new CEO to oversee Houston, Boston incubators | The largest climatetech incubator in North America has named an Obama Administration appointee as its next CEO.
Kevin Knobloch, who served as chief of staff of the United States Department of Energy in President Barack Obama’s second term, ... |
| 03.05.2023 | JSX Adds New York, Nashville By-The-Seat Private Jet Flights From $189 | JSX is expanding its scheduled by-the-seat private jet service to Nashville and adding flights to Westchester County Airport, north of New York City. |
| 26.04.2023 | See inside one of JSX's semi-private jets which offer a first-class like seat for all passengers | Passengers deplaning JSX, which is a semi-private air carrier flying around the US. Taylor Rains/Insider
US-based JSX is a semi-private air carrier, with fares typically starting at $249 one-way.
The company uses 30-seater Embraer 135 and E... |
| 29.03.2023 | I Flew By-The-Seat Private Jet Airline JSX For Less Than Coach On American Airlines | I first wrote about JSX in 2016, when it was launched under the JetSuiteX moniker. At the time, its founder and still CEO Alex Wilcox told me, “There’s nothing between $6,000 and $69,” the former referring to chartering an entire private je... |
| 19.01.2023 | Aero Launches Dallas By-The-Seat Private Jet Flights To Aspen, Los Cabos | If you are looking for an alternative to the airlines, here’s some good news. Aero, the by-the-seat private jet service backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, is heading east, establishing a hub at Love Field in Dallas. The announcement is... |
| 12.05.2022 | Business
Business | Private jet service to connect Broomfield, Dallas, Burbank | A new private jet service will begin to offer nonstop flights between Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, known as BJC, and Dallas (DAL) and Burbank, Calif. (BUR) beginning Aug. 4.
JSX, trade name for JetSuiteX Inc., also is opening season... |
| 29.03.2022 | Flying private is cheaper than you think — here are 6 airlines to consider for your next flight | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 18.03.2022 | After catching a deal on Shark Tank, these Houston-area fish foodies swim toward more funding | The benefits of working more fish into your diet are as endless as the vast ocean itself, but going about buying and cooking fish is an expensive and daunting process.
Houstonians Melissa Harrington and Emily Castro thought they could help ... |
| 12.10.2021 | Affordable Private Jet Carrier JSX Is Expanding To The East Coast | A JSX Embraer jet on takeoff JSX |
| 03.10.2021 | Avoid The Airlines With These New By-The-Seat Private Jet Flights | Turn on the news, and chances are you’ll see videos of fisticuffs and shouting matches, what could easily be scenes from a drunken bar fight or a Philadelphia Eagles game. Unfortunately, it’s a view to flying with the big airlines these day... |
| 26.02.2021 | 5 can't-miss innovation events at CERAWeek featuring Houston speakers | While usually hundreds of energy experts, C-level executives, diplomats, members of royal families, and more descend upon Houston for the the annual CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference, this year will be a little different. Canceled last year... |
| 10.02.2021 | JSX Launches Pop-Up Flights from Dallas to Los Cabos, Mexico for Crowd-Free Spring Break Travel | “For many travelers, this will be the first international trip they have taken in over a year and we are pleased to offer our Customers a safe and socially-distanced experience both on the ground, and in the air so they can fly with peace o... |
| 09.02.2021 | Houston software startup closes $7.5M series A led by two Houston-area VC firms | A Houston B2B software startup has closed a new round of funding led by two Houston venture capital firms.
WizeHire, a tech-enabled hiring solution for small businesses, closed a $7.5 million series A funding round that was led by Houston-b... |
| 08.02.2021 | 2021 Brings New Hope For Air Travel. It’s Not What You Think | 2020 Was A Year That Battered The Air Travel IndustryShutterstock_1751780672 |
| 04.02.2021 | Houston expert: Is virtual reality just trendy tech or a viable business solution? | Due to the pandemic, various technologies have accelerated into the spotlight – one of which being virtual reality. As many begin to decipher the unique ways to connect with audiences, the question becomes: is virtual reality just a shiny t... |
| 01.02.2021 | Energage Names JSX A Winner of the 2021 Top Workplaces USA Award | "JSX is an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and embraces people from all backgrounds. Simply put, we are one team on one journey and with a singular mission - to reintroduce the joy of flying", states Kevin Horan, Chief... |
| 31.01.2021 | Private Jet Flights By-The-Seat Are Popping Up | So, you don't want to fly on the airlines these days. And you don't want to charter an entire private jet for just one or two people. Or, chartering a private jet is beyond the budget of what your gang wants to spend. You just might be in l... |
| 29.01.2021 | Report: Lone Star State snags spot as world's 9th largest economy by GDP | If Texas were a country — and plenty of Texans wish that were the case — it would rank among the world's 10 largest economies. Economic development officials are now touting that fact as evidence of Houston and the rest of Texas being a gre... |
| 14.01.2021 | Rice University researcher looks into what creates social well being | How nice! You're early. It's just you and your mat, alone for a moment at the office's weekly Zoom yoga session. Breathing in, you silently applaud yourself for investing in your well-being.
Then a guy from upper management pops onto the sc... |
| 14.01.2021 | Houston program in the running for prestigious $10 million prize | Rice University is once again in the spotlight for innovation, this time for its work in potentially assisting rural communities across the Lone Star State. And this idea could score the university a $10 million prize.
A new project propose... |
| 11.01.2021 | TMCx company recognized internationally, Cannon acquires Houston fintech startup, and more innovation news | Houston's innovation ecosystem has been booming with news fresh out of the gate for 2021, and it's likely some might have fallen through the cracks.
For this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, a TMCx startup gets called out... |
| 08.01.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included top interviews from 2020, innovators to know, and a guest col... |
| 04.01.2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In the first weekly roundup of Houston innovators of 2021, I'm introducing you to three innovators across the city — one of the richest people in Houston, a venture capital expert, and a female founder with big plans for 2021... |
| 29.12.2020 | These 4 Houstonians cash in on Forbes' list of richest American families | While 2020 has been a nightmare financially for many, some locals have cashed in. One example is Houston's Duncan family, with a net worth of $22 billion, who once again appear on the annual Forbes ranking of America's richest families. (Th... |
| 24.12.2020 | Houston expert: Rethinking priorities at educational institutions | As a new year approaches, it is common to see various school rankings begin to appear in different studies and within various media outlets. Whether they're ranking colleges, high schools or even pre-k schools, these lists have long impacte... |
| 18.12.2020 | Santa Claus is coming to a Houston-area town in an innovative way | Christmas may look a little different this year, but that doesn't mean Santa isn't coming to town. While a family picture with Santa is a seasonal staple for your mantel, the CDC guidelines aren't exactly conducive to a photo on Kriss Kring... |
| 15.12.2020 | This Houston-area county clocks in as top U.S. spot for workforce talent | Despite a tough year for the nation, Fort Bend County keeps winning. In July, the Houston-area county was named the most charitable in Texas. Later, Sugar Land, the anchor city of Fort Bend County, was named one of America's best small citi... |
| 15.12.2020 | Houston venture capital firm makes strategic hire and promotion | A Houston-based venture capital firm has made some moves in its personnel. Mercury Fund has made one new hire and one promotion.
Mercury Fund, which focuses on early-stage startups located in central United States, announced the promotion o... |
| 14.12.2020 | Houston company focused on renewables sees high growth potential amid 'energy revolution' | For Houston-based ENGlobal Corp., a provider of engineering and automation services geared toward the energy industry, renewable fuel facilities are a business pipeline gushing with opportunity.
ENGlobal's potential contracts for renewable ... |
| 11.12.2020 | Report: E-commerce soars in 2020 — in Houston and beyond | This year's holiday shopping season is keeping online retailers hopping. Commercial real estate services provider CBRE predicts holiday e-commerce sales in 2020 will exceed last year's by a whopping 40 percent.
But even before Americans wer... |
| 04.12.2020 | Shoppers in these Houston suburbs are among biggest holiday spenders in U.S. | It appears that delivery drivers (and Santa) will be hauling sleighs full of gifts to homes in The Woodlands and Sugar Land this holiday season.
A new study from personal finance website WalletHub ranks The Woodlands and Sugar Land sixth an... |
| 04.12.2020 | The new service every Houston shopper and small business needs to know about | Holiday shopping is in full swing, and the bane of everyone's existence — especially during a pandemic — is shipping.
For smaller and mid-sized local businesses, that means paying big-business prices to a national shipping company. And for ... |
| 24.11.2020 | Try a hotel room as your office for a change of pace | Image: iStock/olezzo
Guided by the restrictions the coronavirus pandemic has imposed, those who’ve been working from home for most of the year have definitely identified the many benefits (comfort, pets, no commute), but some less-than-grea... |
| 06.11.2020 | Houston workers heading back to office at second-highest rate in U.S., study shows | So much for that everybody-working-from-home thing. New data shows Houston workers have headed back to the office in greater numbers than workers in eight other major U.S. metros.
Figures from Kastle Systems, a provider of security services... |
| 03.11.2020 | Houston hospital uses AI to create new breast cancer risk calculator | In the medical field, billions of dollars are wasted each year — about $935 billion, but who's counting? According to a paper published by the JAMA Network, an estimated $75.7 billion to $101.2 billion is wasted through overtreatment. Of th... |
| 30.10.2020 | Major Houston airport lands on list of hardest hit during the pandemic | Since the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 as a global pandemic on March 11, few industries have slowed as dramatically as air travel. Airlines made massive cuts in services and jockeyed for government assistance. Some, such... |
| 27.10.2020 | Houston ranks No. 3 on list of cities with the most people in financial distress amid COVID-19 | During the pandemic-produced recession, debt and loans are weighing heavily on the hearts and minds of Houstonians.
A study released this week by personal finance website WalletHub found Houston ranks first among the country's 100 largest U... |
| 27.10.2020 | How These Brands Are Making Traveling During Covid-19 Easier | The past few months have not been kind to the travel industry. For most of the pandemic things have looked quite glum, however there are a few glimmers of hope popping up on the horizon. The entire industry is working to innovate its way ou... |
| 26.10.2020 | Get a preview of Chile Connected's anticipated HealthTech panel | The technology and innovation portion of Chile Connected begins next week, and if you haven't already reserved your free spot for the virtual event, you'd be wise to go do it now.
From October 27-29, you can hear from high-level experts and... |
| 22.10.2020 | Houston entrepreneur's mobile platform brings gains to small restaurant chains | Food is the way to a Houstonian's heart. With critically-acclaimed cuisine and an abundance of diversity, Houston is the South's culinary pride. COVID-19 has now stirred uncertainty in a once definitive piece of the city's culture, and rest... |
| 07.10.2020 | Houston to be home to the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country | Film and TV portrayals of psychiatric hospitals have driven a narrative based in cold, clinical rooms and unwelcoming corridors. That picture couldn't be more inaccurate when it comes to Houston's first public mental health hospital in more... |
| 06.10.2020 | Houston-area education platform looking for new schools to help teachers with online tools | A Houston-based nonprofit mentorship program that matches underperforming second to fifth graders with college student tutors to provide them targeted support has adapted to the online schooling era, by introducing hybrid learning services ... |
| 28.09.2020 | Houston kids connect to $1 million in new computers thanks to local nonprofit | As the global pandemic and hurricanes and tropical storms pester the Greater Houston area, a greater emphasis is being placed on online learning for local students. Now, to ensure there is less of a limited digital divide, a local nonprofit... |
| 21.09.2020 | Rice University rises to top of Texas schools in prestigious U.S. News & World Report ranking | Rice University continues to rise in national surveys. The latest: U.S. News & World Report's2021 Best Colleges, released September 14, anoints Rice as the best university in Texas. The prestigious Houston school — dubbed the "Ivy ... |
