Another Major Dell Shareholder Opposes $24.4 Billion Sale
Posted: 6:26 PM Another major Dell shareholder is opposing the company's proposed $24.4 billion sale to a group led by its founder and CEO.
Posted: 6:26 PM Another major Dell shareholder is opposing the company's proposed $24.4 billion sale to a group led by its founder and CEO.
Updated: 10:54 PM Hitachi Consulting, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd (TSE: 6501) and a leading provider of IT and Management Consulting solutions and services, today announced that it has chosen Bryan-College Station Texas out of a potential 250 U.S. cities to host a new on-shore IT services delivery center for their global Managed Services business.
Updated: 8:01 AM Texas continues to suffer a serious rainfall deficit and is on track to experience the second-worst drought on record, the state climatologist said Tuesday.
Posted: 11:28 AM As traffic congestion continues to worsen, the time required for a given trip becomes more unpredictable, and researchers now have a way to measure that degree of unreliability, introduced for the first time as part of the annual Urban Mobility Report (UMR), published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI).
Updated: 8:58 AM ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - Slumping personal computer maker Dell is selling itself for $24.4 billion to its founder and a group of investors that includes Microsoft. It's the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up financing for risky maneuvers like this.
Posted: 3:21 PM Time is almost out for people living in Brazos County to pay their 2012 property taxes.
Posted: 11:43 AM A private survey shows U.S. businesses increased hiring in January compared with a revised December reading.
Posted: 4:30 PM Outgoing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner thinks the U.S. economy will strengthen this year - as long as Congress avoids cutting spending too deeply in a budget deal and Europe's economy gradually improves.
Updated: 12:13 PM In Texas it seems growth is inevitable. You only have to look as far as Forbes Magazine’s list of fastest growing cities to see Texas leads the way.
Posted: 12:16 PM Exxon has once again surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone and iPad maker saw its stock price falter.
Posted: 12:02 PM A top Pentagon official says that if Congress does not come up with a way to avoid mandatory budget cuts by March 1, hundreds of thousands of Pentagon civilian employees will face furloughs and reduced paychecks by April.
Posted: 11:28 AM COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 25, 2013—Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp today announced that the annual economic impact of the A&M System in the Bryan/College Station area has surpassed the $4 billion milestone for the first time—and has almost doubled in a decade. For calendar year 2012, the estimated Texas A&M impact on the entire Research Valley was $4.3 billion, an increase of more than $540 million from 2011 levels and $2.2 billion more than 2002, a 95.7 percent gain.
Updated: 9:33 AM A Texas A&M University at Galveston professor is part of a diving team that descended 462 feet in a West Texas cave, believed to be the deepest underwater cave in the United States.
Updated: 3:51 PM Bryan-College Station and area residents will be asked to participate in an upcoming household travel survey being sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Bryan-College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to update the area’s regional travel demand model. The travel survey will help TxDOT and the MPO prioritize local transportation projects and plan new roads needed to increase mobility and reduce congestion in the area.
Posted: 10:24 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture is releasing its final crop report for 2012, providing a glimpse of what last year's drought cost the nation's farmers and others.
Updated: 10:59 AM The state comptroller estimates that Texas will generate $101.4 billion in general revenue in 2014-2015, a major jump in tax collection from the last two-year budget cycle.
Posted: 6:59 PM A newspaper is reporting that Flowers Foods and Bimbo are emerging as bidders for the bread brands of Hostess, which in the midst of a bankruptcy-court liquidation of its assets.
Posted: 10:53 AM Temple, Texas (January 4, 2013) McLane Intelligent Solutions (MIS), an information technology company located in Temple, Texas, is pleased to announce the acquisition of AgniTEK’s IT Managed Services business unit. AgniTEK is a technology resource company headquartered in Bryan/College Station, Texas. The acquisition represents a significant growth for both companies in 2013.
Updated: 10:25 AM While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.
Updated: 3:17 PM Stocks are rallying in the final hours of trading for the year as a budget deal takes shape in Washington.
Updated: 11:31 AM What happens if the country is forced over the "fiscal cliff" on January 1?
Updated: 1:05 PM As the nation teeters on the edge of the so-called "fiscal cliff," President Obama returns to Washington Thursday to resume negotiations with Congress over a deal to keep taxes from going up on Americans.
Posted: 2:51 PM Pilots at United Airlines are getting a new union contract that brings the airline closer to finalizing its merger with Continental.
Updated: 5:13 PM Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare say they plan to merge to create the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas.
