December 14, 2020 Dallas-based specialty contractor Primoris Services Corp. is buying into growth in broadband internet and 5G deployments with a $620 million acquisition. Primoris said Monday after trading markets closed that it is acquiring Mesquite-based Future Infrastructure Holdings from private equity firm Tower Arch Capital and other shareholders. Primoris shares closed Monday at $27.02 […]
December 14, 2020 GameStop Corp. employees across the country were caught by surprise on Saturday when the video-game chain suddenly announced new shipments of the highly coveted PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles, sending customers flocking to stores. Workers at the U.S. retailer, speaking to Bloomberg and posting on social media, said they had […]
December 15, 2020 Doctors and nurses at Parkland Memorial Hospital charged with saving Dallas County’s sickest COVID-19 patients were among the first in the Lone Star State on Tuesday to be inoculated with the new COVID-19 vaccine. It happened a day after Methodist Dallas Medical Center became the first North Texas hospital to receive doses […]
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Dallas Chapter recently honored outstanding public relations and strategic communication efforts with its 2020 Pegasus Awards. In total, more than 35 awards were given in a range of categories representing Programs, Projects and Special Awards. One Pegasus Award and up to three Awards of Honor were awarded in […]
December 14, 2020 The arrival of a coronavirus vaccine in Dallas on Monday morning was a welcome sign that life in North Texas was getting a little closer to normal. “For those of us who have been in the trenches since the beginning, this is the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Dr. […]
December 14, 2020 First, a pinch in the arm. Then, a sense of relief — and at the same time disbelief — washed over Chad Bush, a North Texas health care worker. Bush, a CT technologist said he was the fourth person at Methodist Dallas Medical Center and among the first people in Texas to […]
December 14, 2020 Some big-city markets are seeing huge declines in apartment rents thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking nationwide at one-bedroom units, monthly rents are still up about 1% from a year ago. But in some of the biggest U.S. apartment markets, there have been huge declines in monthly rental rates. The biggest drops […]
December 14, 2020 The Dallas region’s most well-known tech entrepreneur stepped up for his own area after Austin got a big win with a massive database and software company. Mark Cuban took to Twitter to talk up Dallas over the weekend and potential moves by companies out of Northern California. The post followed news that […]
December 14, 2020 Shoppers are increasingly looking for more from their gift-buying than simply finding the best deal. They want their purchases to stand for something. The National Retail Federation calls them “purpose-based consumers” because they buy products that align with their personal values. NRF and the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed 18,980 consumers […]
December 14, 2020 American Airlines began shipping COVID-19 vaccinations Sunday night out of Chicago bound for a U.S. territory in the Caribbean as the worldwide effort begins to get the first round of inoculations to the public. Fort Worth-based American took the Pfizer and BioNTech shipments by truck at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on a […]