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Texas Business Report: Austin Gets a Med School

The University of Texas Board of Regents approved plans for a medical school in the city, which could generate up to $2 billion for the local economy.

Texas Business Report: Amazon to Tax Texans

The giant of internet retail will start collecting taxes on Texas purchases in July, and has promised Comptroller Susan Combs it will make $200 million in capital investments in the state.

Texas Business Report: Math Standards Divide State

The Texas Association of Business criticizes the State Board of Education's math curriculum and working in Texas pays off for women.

Texas Business Report: The State Sues Apple

Texas joins fourteen other states in a lawsuit against Apple, AT&T dumps the Yellow Pages, and Mattress Firm will get a great night's sleep after it becomes the largest bedding chain in America.

Texas Business Report: Tornado Property Damage Claims Relatively Low

Dallas insurers say claims are lower than expected, the home construction slump adversely affects the ice-production industry, and other business news.

Texas Business Report: Appeals Court Sides with Texas over EPA

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott scored a victory over the EPA this week over when a federal appeals court ordered the federal agency to take more time to consider Texas's pollution control measures.

Texas Business Report: Lockheed’s F-35 Fighter Jets Cost Too Much

The first fleet of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets, which are produced in Fort Worth, are roughly $1 billion more expensive than anticipated.

Texas Business Report: Texas Enterprise Fund Spends $21 Million to Woo Apple

The state pays big bucks to bring Apple (and 3,600 jobs) to Austin, Texans eat out more often than residents of any other state, and the Capitol City will bring in $264 million this month. 

Texas Business Report: Blockbusted

Blockbuster shuts down one-third of its locations, international business out of Texas goes gangbusters, and home prices increase in San Antonio and Houston.

Texas Business Report: BP Gets in the Wind Game

BP has invested more than $1 billion in wind energy in Texas, Dell's stocks take a dip, and every minute spent waiting in line at the border costs companies $116 million.

Texas Business Report: The Future of the Internet Could be Decided . . . in Tyler?

A Tyler man says he invented the technology that laid the groundwork for the web, Frito sales are on the rise, and Rice could help offer open-source textbooks.

Texas Business Report: AMR to Cut 13,000 Jobs

But the Emerging Technology Fund has added 820 jobs, and Houston has two of the top-selling subdivisions. 

The Week in Business: Profits, Losses, and Everything in Between

Apple nearly nudges Exxon out of the top spot for most valuable company, JC Penney unveils a new logo, and H-E-B tries to buy its .xxx domain name. 

The Week in Business: Profits, Losses, and Everything in Between

A hedge fund scandal revolves around Dell, AT&T turns its gaze on Dish Network, and Houston executives rake it in. 

The Week in Business: Profits, Losses, and Everything in Between

Johnson and Johnson sheds tears over Texas lawsuit, Houston stomps Silicon Valley in tech job growth, and the sour finanial condition of Imperial Sugar.

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