🕹️On your mark, get set...drone; Rich dad? Or not?

Brag House, an esports platform for the casual college gamer, will host the inaugural in-person Texas collegiate recruitment fair and collegiate esports event – The Lone Star Collegiate Clash: Esports and Scholars Expo 2024 – Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 21-22. In partnership with the Fort Worth Sports Commission, it will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Center (capacity 20,000). 

A decision requiring Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to take a paternity test as part of a legal dispute with a 27-year-old woman who says the billionaire is her biological father has been upheld. The judge rejected an appeal from Jones' attorneys of a 2022 ruling in a paternity case brought by Alexandra Davis, who alleged in a separate lawsuit that she was conceived from a relationship Jones had with her mother in the mid-1990s. Attorneys are challenging the constitutionality of the Texas law that would compel genetic testing.

ePicker, a Fort Worth material handling equipment provider, has been acquired by Big Lift out of Illinois and will re-brand as EP. Terms were not disclosed. ePicker has a portfolio of electric pallet jacks, stackers, access vehicles and lithium-ion-powered forklifts. EP North America will be based in Fort Worth.

Texas U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is running to lead Senate Republicans, who will elect their leadership for 2025 and 2026 in November after the national general election.

Arlington's City Council approved developer Mojy Haddad's plan to bring 68 townhomes to land near the entertainment district and off Ballpark Way. Sheila Nagy, a realtor, estimated townhomes would sell between $450,000 and $650,000.

The Q4 2023 D-FW Construction Market Report from Bob Moore Construction reveals enviable real estate dynamics despite signals of slowing growth. The market’s tremendous jobs/housing balance and business climate should sustain greater building velocity than peer metros in 2024.

Logos Technologies, a subsidiary of Fort Worth-based Elbit Systems of America, won a $19,379,640 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to supply, maintain and operate Serenity hostile fire detection (HFD) systems for the U.S. Army.

How Tarrant County property tax protestors fared against other Texas property owners.

North Richland Hills approves drone deliveries from two Walmarts in the city. Look up 23 feet wherever you go.

In case you missed it:

• It's a new world for trash in Arlington. Please try to avoid any “oops!” tags.

• Fort Worth sets sights on greener future with ambitious Urban Forest Master Plan.

• The American Advertising Federation Fort Worth announces 2024 award winners.

Significant stat: Elon Musk says the long-anticipated Tesla Roadster will do 0-60 in under a second. Skeptics aren’t as sure. The Roadster’s release – first projected for 2021 – has been delayed from this year to some time in 2025.

Believe it or not: An Irish woman lost an $820,000 injury claim after being seen tossing a Christmas tree.

People on the move:

• Jess Stewart, LLC: Hires Carly Lywood as Director of Business Development.

• Citadel Partners: Adds Cullen Donahue to head project leasing and serve as Fort Worth market leader.

• Camp Fire First Texas: Adds to Board —Rachel Arellano, City of Fort Worth; Joshua Cottle, WL Plastics, LLC; Simeon Henderson, Stable Foundation Home Improvement; Isa Peña-Keller, Lockheed Martin; Shane Mudge, BNSF Railway; Vanna Ngo, Texas House of Representatives; Dr. Laura Power, Lakeside Physicians; Trudy Sanders, Retired community leader.

• Clayton Youth Enrichment: Adds Brittany Lee as Director of Finance.

• Vector Media: Adds Kim Davis as Sr. Account Manager.

Snippets:

• 12 Texas cities are some of the best in the tech industry, study says.

• Hybrids take 6 of the top 10 vehicle picks by Consumer Reports.

• Many small business owners see 2024 as a ‘make or break’ year, survey shows.

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