Wells Fargo Bank is the No. 1 small business lender in North Texas, according to new data from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Wells Fargo made $45.5 million in SBA's flagship 7a loans to small businesses in the fiscal year...
The Dallas Regional Chamber will hold its annual Women's Business Conference on Nov. 6 at the Sheraton Dallas, 400 N. Olive St. Deborah Norville of Inside Edition will be the lunch speaker. Other speakers include: Erin Botsford, president of the...
Two local entrepreneurs who started their companies during this recession -- Imran Karim and Drew Jones -- are finalists in the national "Newpreneur of the Year" contest. Karim started Trophy Skin in Dallas in January to provide home-based acne treatment....
Eight Texas cities, but not Dallas, are considered one of the nation's top 50 places to launch a business, according to a report released Wednesday by Fortune Small Business magazine and the Kauffman Foundation. The list is divided into 10...
Times might be tough, but the Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved $2 million in economic development incentives to help accounting firm giant Deloitte move nearly 500 employees to downtown Dallas from Irving. Deloitte already employs more than 800 people...
The Associated General Contractors of America on Wednesday unveiled a national recovery plan to help revive the ailing construction industry. Stephen E. Sandherr, chief executive of the trade group, estimated that national construction spending could decline 18 percent this year...
Job seekers can refresh their resume writing, image and networking skills at two job fairs this week in Dallas and Fort Worth sponsored by CareerBuilder and the University of Phoenix. The "Build Your Career" job fair in Dallas will take...
A panel of four Dallas area financiers made some interesting observations about alternative financing Thursday at the Southwest Venture Forum in Dallas. The panelists represented various finance areas: Accounts receivable financing, mezzanine financing, seed funding and investments or acquisitions of...
Dallas once again ranks among the nation's 20 best-performing metro areas during this recession, according to the Brookings Institution's Metro Monitor report released today. "Our report shows that over the course of this recession Dallas, together with a number of...
Dallas ranked as the No. 7 of the top 10 metro areas for technology hiring, according to the September Dice Report. The Washington, D.C. area was No. 1, followed by New York/New Jersey and Silicon Valley. Nationwide, 49,594 tech jobs...
My colleague Brendan Case on Tuesday blogged here about Forbes naming Dallas as the nation's No. 1 city to earn a living. Another recent Forbes story lists Dallas as one of three North American "genuine emerging world-class cities." The other...
The Communications Workers of America, District 6, is holding a rally today (Thursday) at AT&T's Dallas headquarters as part of their ongoing negotiations with the company for a new contract. These workers are employed in AT&T's wireline division. You...
CareerBuilder and the University of Phoenix will host a job fair Thursday in Richardson to link job seekers with employers as well as advice on resume writing, image, technology and networking. Employers will include AAA, Idearc and GMAC. The "Build...
Responding to the ongoing recession and rising unemployment, the University of North Texas and the National Business Services Alliance have joined forces to create a job skills training program for a new career for free. The UNT Career Success Programs...
Texas collected $1.57 billion in sales tax revenue in June, about 11 percent less than what it took in during the same month last year, says Susan Combs, the state's comptroller. The numbers are even grimmer for Dallas. The city...
Dallas area companies expect more stable and in some cases, growing information technology and engineering staffs and budgets in the second half of this year, according to a survey released this week by the ConsultNet staffing firm. Survey findings include:...
I've been working on an editorial for later this week on the opportunity Texas has to swipe/ recruit/steal/beg/borrow from high-tax, recession-battered states. Not a surprise that California and its dysfunctional out-of-control government is Numero Uno on my list for places...
Dallas-based AT&T issued a news release today saying that it has made its "last, best and final offer" to union workers in the company's wireline division in the Southwest Region, which includes Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. AT&T...
"I was a lot more nervous eight months ago than I am now," said Ed Heffernan, the new chief at Alliance Data Systems, during a meeting Friday at the company's corporate headquarters. That's not to say that it's all...
Here's a little bit -- and just a little bit -- of good economic news to chew on. I met a few days ago with executives from Dallas-based Riveron Consulting, which advises private equity firms that are looking to...
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