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  • Dell again asks investor for more info on buyout proposal

    Dell Inc. is once again asking investor Carl Icahn for more information on his latest proposal to take control of the Round Rock computer maker.Icahn on May 9 made public the outlines of a plan to offer shareholders a special dividend of either $12 in cash or an equal amount of Dell ...

  • Zact The best no-contract wireless plan yet

    Is owning a smarthpone smart if the monthly bills put you in the poorhouse? Not so much. Thankfully, a growing number of upstart carriers are trying to make smartphone pricing cheaper and more manageable.Republic Wireless, for example, offers service for just $19 per month, and as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, you ...

  • Retiring boomers driving sales of small businesses

    Baby boomers preparing for retirement are driving a surge in small business sales, as they find more potential buyers confident enough in the improving economy to expand their own businesses through acquisitions.In the first three months of the year, the number of sales that closed jumped 56 percent from the same time in 2012, according to BizBuySell.com, an online marketplace for small ...

  • Lewis has mixed results in second rehab start

    Currently on a Minor League rehab assignment, Colby Lewis hasn't pitched in the big leagues since last July. (AP) FRISCO, Texas -- Colby Lewis breezed through the first two innings of his rehab start for Double-A Frisco on Monday, retiring all six batters he faced, striking out three of them. The third inning, however, proved much more troublesome for Lewis, who gave up a leadoff home run ...

  • More reverse mortgage lending options on tap for retirees

    Senate Joint Resolution 18 would amend the Texas Constitution to authorize the Reverse Mortgage for Purchase program and would enhance consumer disclosure requirements for all reverse mortgage loans in Texas. The Texas House has approved legislation that would expand the scope of reverse mortgage lending in the state to the benefit of retirees, its supporters claim. Senate Joint Resolution 18 ...


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Movie Review

Silver Bullet [DVD]

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was always one of the prolific novelist's slightest works, a short, readable-in-one-sitting novelette constructed as a series of 12 episodes in which a werewolf terrorizes a small American town, with each one corresponding to a month of the year. With a punchy, present-tense prose style and almost no characterization, the best thing about it were the gra ... ...

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  • Lawmaker Emerging Tech to get $50 million

    The Texas Emerging Technology Fund will get $50 million to continue operations as part of a budget deal, state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said Monday.Gov. Rick Perry requested $69.5 million for each of the next two years, but negotiations between legislative leaders and the governor's office reduced that to $50 million over two years, according to Pitts, who is chairman of the House ...

  • Lawmakers restore $4 billion in education cuts

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he'll call a special session of the Legislature if they don't pass several key bills. Texas House and Senate budget leaders have reached an agreement to restore about $4 billion of the $5.4 billion in cuts made to public education last session. Though the amount falls short of a complete restoration, Democrats proclaimed the compromise a hard-fought victory ...

  • Virgin America goes big for first nerd bird flight

    Virgin America Inc. is rolling out the red carpet, boarding celebrities and an Austin band, and even launching a water cannon salute upon arrival for its first nonstop flight from Silicon Valley to Silicon Hills. The airline's first "nerd bird" flight from San Francisco International Airport to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport lands in the Capital City at 3:35 p.m. tomorrow. ...

  • Payback Member kills bills to get even

    AUSTIN (AP) A member of the Texas House is killing bills authored by a Houston senator in retaliation for her opposition to an exoneration bill. San Antonio Democrat Ruth McClendon quashed two bills on Friday authored by Houston Republican Sen. Joan Huffman. She killed another bill last week. McClendon is angry that Huffman is blocking a vote on the Timothy Cole Exoneration Review Commission. ...

  • Austin gas prices hold steady as national numbers jump

    Austin gas prices are 15 cents less per gallon than the same day one year ago. The average price per gallon for gasoline in Austin on Sunday was $3.38, just 0.4 cents less than the week before. Reports from GasBuddy.com show national prices jumping 8.9 cents over the last week to $3.67. Recent increases across the U.S. are breaking records in states such as Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas, ...

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