http://www.fwbusinesspress.com Breaking News brought to you by Fort Worth Business Press Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:57:15 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/images/fwbp_logo.jpg http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/index.php http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11333 Everyone knows the Super Bowl is coming to North Texas in 2011, but area leaders need to spread the word about the technology ‘Super Bowl’ that comes to the area every year. That was the message Wes Jurey, president... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11333 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11332 The Southern Methodist Professor whose studies assert that natural gas drilling isn’t as clean as advertised – and contributes heftily to the area’s air pollution – has been named a regional administrator of the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11332 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11327 West Seventh Street soon will see a familiar face lining the booming corridor as the owner and operator of the former Shamrock Pub has plans to open Shamrock Tavern at the start of 2010. Matt McEntire, who owns three... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11327 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11326 Investment funds managed by Fort Worth-based TPG Capital as well as the CPP Investment Board will acquire IMS Health, a provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, as part of a $5.2... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11326 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11325 Tandy Leather Factory Inc. posted a 9 percent increase in sales to $4.9 million in October 2009, up from $4.5 billion during the same month of 2008 The Fort Worth-based leather goods manufacturing company also reported... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11325 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11324 PlainsCapital Corp. announced Nov. 4 it will postpone its planned initial public offering, citing market swings in financial stocks. The Dallas-based bank holding company said it will hold off until the market improves.... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11324 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11323 Fort Worth-based American Airlines Inc. said Nov. 4 its October traffic fell 2.6 percent to 10.2 billion revenue passenger miles from 10.5 billion revenue passenger miles a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile, the... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11323 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11322 Texas voters approved all 11 proposed constitutional amendments on Nov. 3, including an amendment designed to help the state’s public universities become major national research institutions. Proposition 4 shifts more... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11322 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11321 Devon Energy Corp.’s net earnings for the third quarter 2009 dropped 81 percent to $499 million, as compared to $2.6 billion for the same three-month period in 2008, due to declining revenues from oil, natural gas and... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11321 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11320 XTO Energy Inc. reported net income of $500 million, or $0.86 per share, for its third quarter 2009 results, a 4 percent decline from the same three-month period last year, and record production of 2.95 billion cubic... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11320 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11317 Berkshire Hathaway Inc., in the largest acquisition in the company’s history, will acquire Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., along with its assets and subsidiaries, for a total of $44 billion, including... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11317 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11318 Chesapeake Energy Corp. reported net income for the third quarter 2009 of $186 million, a far cry from the $3.3 billion for the same period last year but still beating analysts’ expectations of $0.65 per share by 5... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11318 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11316 Rapid Reporting Verification Co. has been acquired by Atlanta-based Equifax Inc. for $72.5 million in cash, the two companies announced Nov. 2. Fort Worth-based Rapid Reporting is a privately held national provider of... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11316 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11315 TPG Capital announced Nov. 2 it will invest $500 million to purchase a majority stake in Houston-based Valerus Compression Services. Valerus is a privately held provider of natural gas handling services, including natural... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11315 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11312 About a year and a half after the Fort Worth oil and gas producer announced plans to seek a buyer, then scrapped them, Encore Acquisition Co. announced it would sell to Plano-based Denbury Resources Inc. in a $4.5 billion... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11312 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11313 Independent insurance and financial services firm Higginbotham & Associates of Fort Worth announced Oct. 30 it has formed a partnership with Globex International Group to provide commercial insurance, loss control and... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11313 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500