Texas Instruments Incorporated

The eat-to-grow mantra is back in vogue in the corporate world. Takeover activity is surging in the U.S. and abroad this year as cash-rich companies look to put some of that stash to work by bulking up. On Monday computer......

Microsoft Corp.’s agreement Tuesday to buy Internet telecom firm Skype for $8.5 billion is another sign of the prominence of big deals in this year's wave of merger activity, as megacompanies spend aggressively to buy growth. The Microsoft-Skype...

Ocoee Middle School principal Sharyn Gabriel has been named the “Outstanding Technology Leader in Education” by the Florida Society for Technology in Education. The statewide honor was announced at the annual Florida Education Technology...

Rick Kogan, Tribune reporter "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood" By Jane Leavy Harper, $27.99 Leavy's "The Last Boy" is as masterfully researched and beautifully written as any biography this year. Sox fans like me may...

Kimberly Ferguson says her job is much more than teaching. Ferguson says her career gives her a chance to mold the leaders of tomorrow. "It's very important for me to see girls in the science field." Ferguson teaches AP Science courses at the Irma Rangel...

Kenneth Alan Jonsson, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA, died March 15 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He had been in declining health for several months after a hospital stay in December,...

The Detroit News is reporting that Ford will recall 4.5 million vehicles over a faulty cruise control deactivation switch. It is the same defect that was at the heart of previous recalls now totaling 14 million vehicles. There have been......

Mazda has issued a recall for 39,600 Mazda B Series pickup trucks from the 1995-1997 and 2001-2003 model years, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The only pickups being recalled are those equipped with the Texas...

"Pico" projectors, tiny but gloriously high-resolution projectors based on a Texas Instruments DLP chipset, are shifting from novelty status in 2009 to wider availability this year. According to the RegHardware blog, TI showed off 12 mobile phones,...

Cyber Deputy Dianne with Texas Instruments and their micro mirror chip the size of a pez candy piece that powers all of their devices.

Astronomer Frank J. Low, the experimental genius who developed and distributed sensors for infrared astronomy and performed the first successful observations above the Earth's atmosphere, died June 11 in Tucson after a long illness, the University of...

Charles R. Bond Jr., a retired Air Force major general and one of the last surviving Flying Tigers, died Aug. 18 from the effects of dementia at Presbyterian Village North, an assisted-living community in Dallas. He was 94. In September 1941, he left the...