Technology
November 8, 2021
Can Virtual Reality Make Older Adults Happier and Healthier?
A Plano company claims its immersive experiences—from scuba diving to jazz concerts—represent the future of eldercare.
Business
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Business
November 4, 2021
Why American and Southwest Airlines Canceled Thousands of Flights
Don’t blame vaccines, but do blame the pandemic. And hope the airlines have fixed their problems by the busy Thanksgiving travel season.
Business
October 28, 2021
No Signs Yet of a Tech Texodus
But recruiters warn that the state’s abortion restrictions could prove a barrier to attracting top talent, especially among women.
Sports
October 27, 2021
How Mattress Mack Pays For His Sports-Related Mega Giveaways
If the Astros win the World Series, buyers win free mattresses—and Mattress Mack cashes the biggest winning ticket in sports-betting history.
Libations
October 22, 2021
Everything We Know About Elon Musk’s Tesla Beer
The billionaire announced the launch of Cybertruck-inspired "Giga Beer," and a Texas brewery may or may not be planning to sell it.
Business
October 21, 2021
Texas Hemp Business Celebrates Itself Amid Setbacks
The nascent industry is celebrating itself amid a series of setbacks, including having its most popular products deemed controlled substances by the state.
Health
October 13, 2021
A Dallas Startup Aims to Build a Big Business—and Transform Lives—by Curing Rare Diseases
Taysha hopes to commercialize UT Southwestern’s groundbreaking gene therapies to benefit its shareholders—and desperately ill children.
Business
October 8, 2021
Why Tesla Is Moving to Texas
Elon Musk’s company aims to transform the energy business. So, of course, it’s relocating to the energy capital.
Business
October 5, 2021
At Heritage, Pokémon Cards Are the New Bitcoin
The collectors are younger, the payouts are bigger, the collectibles are … nerdier. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has entered a wild new era.
Energy
September 24, 2021
Natural Gas Prices Are Surging. Why Aren’t Texas Drillers Taking Advantage?
The state’s shale fields are quiet, keeping supply tight and energy bills higher.
Business
September 16, 2021
Inside the Extremely Hot Business of Bitcoin Mining in Big Spring
A Minnesota company is hunting for cryptocurrency on the eastern edge of the Permian Basin—with plans for a big expansion in Texas.
Business
September 15, 2021
How Mark Cuban Plans to Dunk on the Drug Industry
The billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has teamed up with a polymath and put his name on a company that aims to change the pharmaceutical game.
Business
September 13, 2021
This Texan Aims to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth to Save the Planet
Ben Lamm’s latest company, Colossal, hopes to reverse climate change by reintroducing the long-extinct creature to the Arctic. What could go wrong?
Energy
September 12, 2021
Fracking Has a Bad Rep, but Its Tech Is Powering a Clean Energy Shift
Texas start-ups are harnessing know-how born of the shale boom in pursuit of a greener future.
Education
September 2, 2021
Who Is Bud Brigham, the Man Behind UT’s “Liberty Institute”?
With taxpayer money now committed to the project, alongside private pledges, the oil billionaire’s push to create a conservative think tank on the Austin campus nears the goal line.
Business
September 1, 2021
The Delta Variant Is Denting Texas’s Construction Industry
Supply-chain disruptions and an increase in COVID-19 cases at job sites are slowing down employment in building.
Business
August 26, 2021
Elon Musk Wants to Sell Texans Electricity
Tesla has filed to become a Texas power retailer in a move that could shake up an already fast-changing market.
Business
August 26, 2021
Inside the High-Stakes Hustle of Small-Business Salsa
For a small salsa company to succeed, it takes a lot more than a Texan grandmother's recipe for great dip.
Business
July 29, 2021
House Hunting in Fort Worth With a Wealthy Californian
What the luxury buyers flocking to Texas, and the agents helping them, say about the super-charged real estate market.
Business
July 27, 2021
How COVID-19 Transformed Match Group’s Online Dating Empire
The Dallas-based industry leader adapted to the pandemic with features that remain popular even as social-distancing recommendations have eased.
Business
July 22, 2021
How This Sad Barbecue Tray Became a Meme, Then an Artwork, Then a Cash Cow
After years of online mocking by barbecue fans, “Brooklyn BBQ” is now being auctioned as an NFT. The starting bid is about $10,000.
Business
July 15, 2021
The Return of Liz Lambert
She was born into West Texas ranching royalty and found fame by building a hotel empire. Then she was ousted from her company. Now, for her next act . . .
Technology
July 14, 2021
Art Blocks Brings Big Money to Artists Who Paint With Code
The Houston-based website makes use of blockchain technology—and an element of surprise—to attract a sizable new audience for computer-generated works.
Business
July 9, 2021
Remote Work in Downtown High-rises Is Killing the Businesses in Houston’s Tunnels
The city's subterranean shops are still feeling the pandemic’s toll.
Business
June 29, 2021
The Delivery Robots Are Your Friends, Says Delivery-Robot Company
Our intrepid reporter biked behind the human whose job it is to follow, and help train, Austin’s new pizza-delivery robots.
Business
June 29, 2021
New Luby’s Owner Won’t Tear Up the Menu (or Hold the Mayo)
The Chicago investor buying 32 of the beloved and beleaguered Texas cafeteria chain's remaining locations says the "food is not the problem.”
Business
June 24, 2021
How Gary Kelly Changed Southwest Airlines
The longtime CEO is stepping down. With apologies to Herb Kelleher, it's Kelly who may be the most successful chief executive in the company’s history.
Energy
June 9, 2021
Griddy Argues It Was, in Fact, a Champion of Consumers
The much-maligned—now bankrupt and outlawed—electricity provider offered just the sort of experiment Texas’s energy deregulation sought.
Business
June 3, 2021
Hot Pants, Love Potions, and the Go-go Genesis of Southwest Airlines
Fifty years ago this month, the Dallas-based carrier first took flight. It’s reflecting on its past as it confronts a pandemic-shaped future.
Business
June 1, 2021
Inside the Greater Houston Partnership’s Tense Fight Over Voting Rights
Before a Democratic walkout blocked the passage of an "election integrity" bill in the Texas Lege, members of the partnership had split over how to respond to the legislation.
Energy
May 27, 2021
ExxonMobil and Its Rivals Learn They Can’t Ignore Climate Activists
Major setbacks this week may force the oil giants to speed efforts to curb carbon emissions and invest in renewables—and perhaps even abandon the search for new fossil-fuel plays.
Energy
May 20, 2021
Texas’s Oil and Gas Industry Is Defending Its Billions in Subsidies Against a Green Energy Push
The state's energy business has long counted on tax breaks and other largesse. Whether renewables or fossil fuels get more depends on how you do the math.
Film & TV
May 18, 2021
Eva Longoria’s Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Movie May Be Based on a Frito-Lie
Plano probably had more to do with the invention of the snack than Richard Montañez's inspirational tale did.
Business
May 18, 2021
AT&T’s “Cowboy Swagger” Led to Its Hollywood Misadventure
With its WarnerMedia announcement, the Dallas-based telecom tacitly admits its latest bold acquisition—by a Texas company built on them—was a mistake.
Business
May 12, 2021
Elon Musk Is Turning Boca Chica Into a Space-Travel Hub. Not Everyone Is Starstruck.
Residents of the South Texas beach town say SpaceX’s billionaire owner is ruining their “little piece of heaven.”
Business
April 29, 2021
Amid a Bitcoin Boom, Texas Leaders Get Cozier With Cryptocurrency
A resurgent mining industry is lobbying the Legislature to make the state friendlier to the blockchain.
Politics & Policy
April 17, 2021
Why Have Texas’s Restrictive Voter Bills Received Less Corporate Pushback Than the Ones in Georgia?
A few of Texas's big businesses have publicly criticized efforts to make voting more difficult. But many more, fearful of Republican retribution, are trying to keep their heads down.
Business
April 14, 2021
Outdoor Voices Is Not F***ing Around With Austin Bar Little Brother
The athletic wear giant threatened legal action over the bar’s parody of its famous blue hat.
Health
April 9, 2021
This COVID-19 Vaccine Plant Shows Texas Is Becoming Biotech’s Third Coast
With the pandemic spurring officials to keep more high-tech drug manufacturing on U.S. soil, the state stands to benefit.
Business
April 8, 2021
How Austin’s Start-up Sector Won the Pandemic
The city’s tech industry enjoyed big-time growth despite—or because of?—the nation’s difficult past year.
Business
April 6, 2021
The Off-Grid Business Has Never Been Better
When demand surged for pandemic-friendly RVs and camper vans, Austin-based rental company Outdoorsy was ready to capitalize on the trend.
Energy
March 31, 2021
America’s Offshore Wind-Powered Future Begins in a Texas Shipyard
In announcing an ambitious renewable-energy push this week, the Biden administration highlighted a vessel under construction in Brownsville as proof of the economic opportunities of going green.
Business
March 26, 2021
H-E-B Is Coming to DFW, and People Are Like OMG
The beloved supermarket chain, which has carefully guarded its intentions in North Texas, dropped a bombshell on Friday.
Business
March 24, 2021
A Tale of Two Houston Restaurants—One That Requires Masks and Its Neighbor That Doesn’t
Roma and D'Amico's, Italian eateries in the Rice Village, have taken opposite approaches after Greg Abbott lifted pandemic-era restrictions on businesses. Both establishments' owners say they're looking out for staff.
Business
March 16, 2021
Some on Wall Street Profited off Texas Blackouts. In a Private Call, a Top Regulator Pledged He Would Try to Protect Their Windfall.
Public Utility Commission chairman Arthur D’Andrea apologized to investors last week for the “uncertainty” around its profits.
Business
March 5, 2021
Alamo Drafthouse’s Founder Vows to Protect What Makes It Special
Yet, in an interview two days after the beloved cinema chain’s pandemic-induced bankruptcy filing, Tim League also says he can’t guarantee changes aren’t coming.
Business
March 4, 2021
Despite Losing Power for Days, Texans Will Pay Higher Power Bills—Perhaps for Decades to Come
The bankruptcies and staggering electricity charges are beginning to arrive. Could it go from bad to worse?
Business
February 24, 2021
Why We Shouldn’t Bet Against GameStop
The megachain has never been shy about flexing its industry might, yet it somehow became a poster child for fighting the power of Wall Street.
Business
February 8, 2021
The Buc-ee’s Stops Here: Why the Iconic Chain Is Facing a Backlash East of the Sabine
Turns out not everyone loves Texas-size gas stations (or 13 varieties of jerky).
Business
February 5, 2021
Texas Payday Lenders Get Millions in Pandemic Relief Money
Many short-term lenders receive government help even as their ultrahigh interest rates trap vulnerable customers in debt.